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Burney MS 214

Record Id:

040-002237095

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000106

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 214

Title:

Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII

Scope & Content:

Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 4r-90r); preceded (ff. 1r-2r) by two inserted paper leaves with 18th-century notes on Paulus Orosius, perhaps in the hand of Anthony Askew, in English, and by a chapter list, in Latin (ff. 4r-10v); followed by an excerpt from Book 5 chapter 7, added in humanistic script (from [C]um maior pene, to non esse professus est) as at ff. 48v-49r.

Decoration:

1 large historiated initial with partial border, in gold and colours, depicting a woman seated before a skull on a chalice (f. 4r); large parted initials in red and blue with penwork in purple and blue, partly infilled with yellowish wash; smaller initials alternately blue and red, or vice versa.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237095

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 214 : Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0209]/040-002237095

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

English
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1429

End Date:

1439

Date Range:

c 1434

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 295 x 210 mm (text space 210 x 150 mm), in two columns of 45 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iv + 95 (ff. i-iv, 91-95 are flyleaves; ff. iii-iv, 92-93 are parchment). Burney pagination 1-173.

Collation: i⁸ (ff. 3-10), ii-xi⁸ (ff. 11-90). Catchwords.

Script: Semi-humanistic, with spaces for headings usually left blank.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. The edges of the leaves with traces of yellow colouring; the lower edges of the leaves with a title 'P Orosius'.

Custodial History:

Origin: Switzerland, N. (Basel), or Germany, S.

Provenance:

Francesco Marerio (d. 1442), bishop of Brescia (between 1418 and 1442): inscribed in humanistic script 'Pauli Orosii viri eruditissimi liber hystoriar(um) aduersus Paganoru(m) Calumnias; scriptus Basilee [Basle] anno d(omi)ni n(ost)ri Iesuchristi Na(tivita)tis 1434 Francisci de Marerio Ep(iscop)i Brixien(s)is [followed by a three-line erasure, perhaps ending with a date: die 7 … 144… (?)]' (f. 3v; see Watson 1979, I, 166; cf. Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 618, signed by Marerio in 1440).

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: inscribed 'De figli et h(er)edi di M. Mario Maffei' (f. 4r).

Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 499, bought by Marsh for £1 15s.

Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.: his sale, 1 February 1816, lot 990.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Purchased for the British Museum from Charles Parr Burney, son of Charles Burney, D.D., in 1818.

Administrative Context:

Switzerland, N. (Basel), or Germany, S.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1464&CollID=18&NStart=214].

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 59.

B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 374, no. 8).

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XV^e et XVI^e siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), pp. 306-33 (p. 323, no. 25).

J. M. Bately and D. J. A. Ross, 'A Checklist of Manuscripts of Orosius "Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri Septem"', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 15 (1961), pp. 329-34 (no. 72).

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 166.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Marerio, Francesco, bishop of Brescia, d 1442
Marsh, Charles, FSA, 1735-1812
Orosius, Paulus, c 380-c 418,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121178754,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/2479624