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Burney MS 215

Record Id:

040-002237096

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000107

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 215

Title:

Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, imperfect; followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history

Scope & Content:

Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII (ff. 1r-68v), ending imperfectly in 7.9 (at domi fortisque); followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history (ff. 69r-73v), starting imperfectly (at lxx. et genuit Thara et vixit priusquam genuit Thara annos cc et xxiiii).

Decoration:

1 three-line parted initial in blue and red (f. 1r); and three-line initials alternately red with blue penwork flourishing, or vice versa, at the start of each book; similar two-line initials.

Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237096

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 215 : Paulus Orosius, Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri VII, imperfect; followed by an anonymous compilation of Old Testament history

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0210]/040-002237096

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1230

End Date:

1240

Date Range:

c 1235

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 230 x 155 mm (text space 170 x 115 mm), in two columns of 37 lines. Ruled in brown leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 76 (ff. i-iii, 74-76 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-146.

Collation: i-iv¹⁰ (ff. 1-40), v-vi⁸ (ff. 41-56), vii¹² (ff. 57-68), viii^6-1? (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 69-73). Catchwords.

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Pinelli binding of diced calf; the spine of black calf, gilt with a bird tool.

Custodial History:

Origin: France

Provenance:

? Written in or shortly before 1235: in the margin, near the statement in the text that there were 5199 years from the origin of the world to the birth of Christ, is inscribed 'su(n)t igi(tur) a (con)structio(n)e mundi usque nunc vi. cccc xxxiiij anni' (f. 10r).

Un-identified French humanistic owner, 15th century: with his marginal annotations (e.g. f. 11r).

Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (inscription '7899', f. 1r, corresponding to his inventory number, see Morelli 1787, III, no. 7899): his London sale, 2 March 1789, lot 12805, bought by Marsh for £3 3s.

Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F. S. A.: his sale, 1 February 1816, lot 991.

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

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Administrative Context:

France.

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=1535&CollID=18&NStart=215].

Publications:

Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7899.

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.

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. 73).

L. B. Mortensen, 'The Diffusion of Roman Histories in the Middle Ages. A List Of Orosius, Eutropius, Paulus Diaconus and Landolfus Sagax Manuscripts,' Filologia Mediolatina,VI-VII, (2000), 101-200 (p. 132).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

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
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785