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Burney MS 220

Record Id:

040-002237101

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00010c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 220

Title:

Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, with glosses

Scope & Content:

Contents:

f. 1 is a leaf of binder’s waste, s. xvi?, with a draft of verses inEnglish, in two columns each of seven lines, concerning a father’s love for his children.

f. 2r: blank

f. 2v: Ownership inscriptions. ‘Ouidus de ponto fidelissime & integraliter | p(re)c(io) xvi.d.’, ‘Quo quis antiquinæ; eo melinæ | B. Suggyn’.

ff. 3r-46v: Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto. With fairly extensive marginal and interlinear glosses.

f. 47r: blank

f. 47v: Ownership notes. ‘Sepes t(ri)na canes et equos ho(m)i(n)es s(upe)r addas …’, ‘Om(n)es ho(m)i(n)es aut mulieres istius ville s(un)t lat(r)ones’. ‘S(ir) I comend me un to yow p(r)aying yow to send me y^e questions of albart. [i.e. Albertus Magnus, Quaestiones de animalibus?] | By yo(ur) lo[…] Thoma(s) hossom(?)’.

Decoration:

Large decorated initials in green, red, or both colours. Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237101

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 220 : Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, with glosses

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0215]/040-002237101

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 200 x 100 mm (text space 155 x 60 mm), in 37 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. iii + 51 + 46* (ff. i-iii, 48-51 are flyleaves). Twysden pagination 1-88.

Collation: i-v⁸ (ff. 3-42), vi⁴ (ff. 43-46). Quire signatures on first rectos and last versos: a facing b (ff. 10v-11r), etc.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced calf. The first flyleaf with part of a watermark 'E & P' (cf. Burney MS 195).

Custodial History:

Origin: England, N.?

Provenance:

Written in Northumbria, possibly at the Benedictine abbey of St Mary, York, according to Lawrence (1994), p. 466, and Lawrence-Mathers (2003), p. 124.

Unidentified owner, 13th century?: 'hic est | bu(?) | Walteri | [..?]eff' (f. 19r, within the coloured initial).

Unidentified owners, 15th century and 16th century, with inscriptions, partly in English, including: 'Ouidus de ponto fidelissime & integraliter p(re)c(io) xvi.d.', 'Quo quis antiquinæ; eo melinæ B. Suggyn.' (f. 2v), 'S(ir) I comend me un to yow p(r)aying yow to send me y^equestions of albart. [i.e. Albertus Magnus, Quaestiones de animalibus?] By yo(ur) l[oner dai??] Thoma(s) hossom [/ hopson?]' (f. 47v).

Successive monks of the Benedictine Abbey of St. Mary, York: over an erasure, in a formal florid hand, is 'Iste liber constat Will(el)mo [erasure] monacho monasterij b(ea)te Marie iuxta muros cuiutate Ebor.' (f. 46v); over the erased name in this inscription the name 'Cou(er)dale' has been written by a different hand (see Ker (1964), pp. 217, 321).

Sir Roger Twysden, (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed (ff. 2r, 3r; dated '1630', f. 2r), and with his pagination.

Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: sold by him in the 'Twysden' sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1108, bought by Burney for £1 7s.

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.

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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.

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 217, 321.

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), p. 144.

Anne Lawrence, ‘The Artistic Influence of Durham Manuscripts’, in Anglo-Norman Durham 1093-1193, ed. by David Rollason, Margaret Harvey, and Michael Prestwich (Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1994), pp.451-69 (p. 466, fig. 40).

Anne Lawrence-Mathers, Manuscripts in Northumbria in the Eleventh and Twelfth Centuries (Woodbridge: Brewer, 2003), p. 124, fig. 53.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Abbey of St Mary, York, 1055-1539
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Sebright, John Saunders, 7th Baronet, politician and agriculturalist, 1767-1846
Twysden, Roger, Antiquary, d 1672