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Burney MS 223

Record Id:

040-002237104

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00010f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 223

Title:

Ovid, Metamorphoses; inscribed in margins with proverbs

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-131r: Ovid, Metamorphoses; inscribed in margins with proverbs, etc., including: 'Diligimus temetum …'; 'O felix corda …'; 'Non amat ut dico qui non succurrit amico'; and 'Luxuria raro …'. (cf. Walther 1963-<1969>, nos. 5786b, 5759, 19456, 17231a, 14165); 'ad uada pontina te misit naso ruina | triplex doctrina visus tuus atque corina’ (cf. Yale, Beinecke, MS. 479 (Ovid), f. 82) (f. 130v); 'bis sex millenos versus in codice scriptos | sed ter quinque minus continet ouidius' (see Munk-Olsen, 1985, p. 120 no. 92) (f. 130v).

Decoration:

Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with flourishing in the same colours, at the beginning of books (ff. 1r, 10r, 20v, etc.). Small initials alternately red or blue, with flourishing in the other colour, occasionally with human faces (e.g. f. 11v). Tau diagram of the world (f. 1v). Headings in red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237104

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 223 : Ovid, Metamorphoses; inscribed in margins with proverbs

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0218]/040-002237104

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

1st half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 145 mm (text space 165 x 55 mm), in 42 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. ii + 133 (ff. i-ii, 132-133 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-261.

Collation: i-xvi⁸ (ff. 1-128), xvii^4-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 129-131). Quire signatures.

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'

Binding: Post-1600. Red velvet; with small yellow printed ticket 'Bound / by / Geo. Cope / 15 / Opposite Sloane St.' (inside front cover, top left corner); the first recto of each quire lettered in pencil A-R.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

With numerous marginalia in ink and leadpoint, 13th or 14th century, often erased.

Unidentified German? reader, 14th or 15th century: inscribed 'dem(?) erben wol beschenden(?)' (f. 131v, upside-down).

Marginal heading in humanistic script (f. 129v).

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=1529&CollID=18&NStart=223].

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.

Franco Munari, Catalogue of the MSS of Ovid's Metamorphoses, Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Stuides of the University of London, Supplementary Papers, 4 (London: University of London, 1957), no. 160.

Proverbia sententiaeque Latinitatis Medii Aevi : lateinische Sprichwörter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters in alphabetischer Anordnung, ed. by H. Walther, 6 vols (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1963-<1969>), nos. 5786b, 5759, 19456, 17231a, 14165.

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