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Burney MS 218

Record Id:

040-002237099

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00010a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 218

Title:

Humanistic anthology of classical Roman poetry

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-55r: Ovid, Ars amatoria.

ff. 55v-74r: Ovid, Remedia amoris.

ff. 74v-121v. Tibullus, Elegiae. ending ‘Quid miserum torques rumor acerbe tace. Τελωσ’.

f. 121v: Domitus Marsus. Epitaphium Albii Tibulli. With various notes.

f. 122r: Life of Tibull. (‘Summa vite et rerum Tibulli’), (printed in Albii Tibulli aliorumque libri tres, ed. by F. W. Lenz and K. Galinksy (Leiden, 1971), pp. 171-72, cf. U. Pizzani, ‘Le vite umanistiche di Tibullo', Res publica litterarum, 5 (1982), 252-67, (p. 254.))

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237099

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 218 : Humanistic anthology of classical Roman poetry

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0213]/040-002237099

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 208 x 145 mm (text space 140 x 90 mm), in 21-22 lines.

Foliation: ff. iv + 125 + 1* (ff. i-iv, 124-125 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-239.

Collation: i² (ff. 1-1*), ii-xiii¹⁰ (ff. 3-121). Catchwords. Leaf numbers.

Script: Humanistic script, written 'above top line’, with blank spaces for headings; by more than one scribe: the script changes at f. 74v. The Ovid section annotated and glossed in a small neat humanistic script, including quotations from Tibullus (e.g. ff. 15v-16r).

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed, 15th century, 'Si quis in hoc artem populo non nouit amandi' (f. 1r), and 'Multa rosant redenda dari: data redere nolunt' (f. 121v).

Inscribed, 16th/17th century, 'F(rate)r Cornelius Vince(n)tinus' (f. 121v).

Sold at the anonymous 'Sicily' sale at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, lot 28, bought by Burney for £2.

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.

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), pp. 59-60.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Tibullus, Albius, Latin poet, c 55-19 BC