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Burney MS 221

Record Id:

040-002237102

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00010d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 221

Title:

Ovid, Fasti

Scope & Content:

ff. 2r-147r: Ovid, Fasti.

Decoration:

5 large white vine initials in colours and gold, at the beginning of each book (ff. 2r, 23r, 48v, 74r, 102r, 123v), the first with a matching full white vine border, incorporating overpainted heraldic arms.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237102

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 221 : Ovid, Fasti

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0216]/040-002237102

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1435

End Date:

1465

Date Range:

c 1440-c 1460

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 180 x 130 mm (text space 110 x 75 mm), in 17 lines. Ruled in leadpoint (verticals) and pale grey ink (horizontals).

Foliation: ff. iii + 149 (ff. i-iii, 1, 147-149 are flyleaves). Burney(?) pagination in ink 1-291.

Collation: i-xiv¹⁰ (ff. 2-141), xv⁶ (ff. 142-146). Vertical catchowrds and leaf signatures.

Script: Humanistic, written 'above top line', with spaces for headings.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced calf, with the usual 'palmette and fleur-de-lys' gilt roll, marbled endpapers and parchment flyleaves; edges gilt; rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: Central Italy, (perhaps Rome)

Provenance:

Marginal and interlinear notes added sporadically in humanistic script.

Written perhaps in Rome in middle of the 15th century, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library; the original arms appear to have included the tincture gules (f. 2r).

Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: with his arms and the usual erased 'De figli …' inscription (f. 2r; cf. Burney MS 214).

Unidentified Italian owner, first half of the 18th century: inscriptions in Italian include the name 'Antonio'(?) (f. 147v).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 502, bought by Grafton for £6 16s. 6d.

Augustus Henry Fitzroy (b. 1735, d. 1811), 3rd Duke of Grafton, politician: his purchase price '6-16-6' (f. 1v, top left), and below this '58' (cf. Burney MSS 158, 167, 174), and 'D. of Grafton / 1785.' (f. 2r); his anonymous sale, 6 June 1815, lot 542, bought by Burney for £8 18s. 6d.

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:

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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.

B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 374, no. 9).

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

E. H. Alton, D. E. W. Wormell, and E. Courtney, 'A Catalogue of the Manuscripts of Ovid's Fasti', London Institute of Classical Studies Bulletin, no. 24 (1977), 37-63 (p. 48 no. 78.).

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
FitzRoy, Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton, Prime Minister, 28 Sep 1735-14 Mar 1811
Maffei, Mario, of Volterra; Bishop of Aquino; Bishop of Cavaillon, 1463-1537
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757