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Burney MS 219

Record Id:

040-002237100

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00010b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 219

Title:

Ovid, Heroides with glosses

Scope & Content:

A medieval copy of Ovid's fictitious letters of classical heroines. The manuscript contains extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, one gloss (f. 22v: 'exprobare - reprecher') is in French. Epistola 15 is missing and the manuscript breaks off at Epistola 21.12, as is common in other medieval copies.

Contents:

ff. 1r-44v: Ovid, Heroides, with extensive marginal and interlinear glosses, begins 'P. Naso Ovidus Heroydos epystola prima....' ends '...Quos vereor paucos ne velit esse mihi. Explichit [sic] liber epistolarum'.

Decoration:

Initials alternately blue with red pen-flourishing, or vice versa. Headings in red in ornamental capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237100

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 219 : Ovid, Heroides with glosses

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0214]/040-002237100

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper.

Dimensions: 225 x 150 mm (text space 170 x 60 mm), in 37-38 lines.

Foliation: ff. v + 48 (f. i is the bookplate, ff. ii-iii are paper, ff. iv-v parchment, and ff. 45-46 parchment, and ff. 47-48 paper flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-88.

Collation: not practicable due to the tightness of the binding.

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of polished red morocco; gilt spine; 18th century?; the joints repaired.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

The library at Château d’Anet, with the usual mark (f. 1r), beneath which is 'N^o. 145' in pencil; no. 146 (according to the numbering in Bauchart 1886, p. 320), in the Anet sale, Pierre Gandouin, Paris, November 1724.

? Walter Clavell, F. R.S., elected 1704, admitted to the Inner Temple in 1700, very possibly in his sale, 29 March 1742, p. 95 lot 104.

? Unidentified owner: perhaps in Egerton sale, 1794, item 3891, priced £3 3s.

Sir Robert Smyth (b. 1744, d. 1802), 5th baronet, patron of the arts and radical: his armorial bookplate on the upper pastedown (f. i recto); his sale, 10 April 1809, lot 894.

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.

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=1522&CollID=18&NStart=219].

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. 60.

Ernest Quentin Bauchart, Les femmes bibliophiles de France (Paris: Damascene Morgand, 1886), p. 320.

E. A. Kirfel, Untersuchungen zur Briefform der Heroides Ovids, (Bern and Stuttgart, 1969), pp. 47; 56. 126. manuscript Lb.

Massimo Zaggia, Heroides: volgarizzamento fiorentino trecentesco di Filippo Ceffi, vols. 1-2,(SISMEL edizioni del Galluzzo, 2009), vol. 1., p. 155 and 179.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Clavell, Walter, of the Inner Temple, fl. 1717-1730
Library at Château d'Anet, France, 1547-
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Smyth, Robert, 5th Baronet, patron of the arts and radical, 1744-1802