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Burney MS 224

Record Id:

040-002237105

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000110

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 224

Title:

Ovid, Metamorphoses with preface and commentary by Arnulf of Orléans and other poetic texts

Scope & Content:

A copy of Ovid's Metamorphoses, with prologue and commentary by Arnulf of Orleans (d. 1003) with other satellite texts on classical mythology.

Contents:

f. 2r: Arnulf of Orleans, Prologue to Metamorphoses. (Printed by Fausto Ghisalberti, ‘Arnolfo d'Orléans: un cultore di Ovidio nel secolo XII’, Memorie del R. Instituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. Classe di lettere, vol. 24. fasc. 4 (1932), 157-234, (pp. 180-82); cf. Munk-Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles: Catalogue des manuscrits classiques latins copiés du IXe au XIIe siècle, 2 vols., (Paris: CERF, 1982), vol. 2., p. 120 no. 103).

ff. 3r-180r: Ovid, Metamorphoses. Each book preceded by a list of contents.

f. 180r: Geneology of gods, begins ‘Togaton fuit primus deus...’. (Unedited, same text in Oxford, Bodleian Library, Auct. F 4 30, fol. 72r).

ff. 180r-180v: Ten lines of verse, (‘De v filiabus solis’), begins ‘Titanos nate dicuntur quinque sorores....’ ends ‘...Nam sol illius vicium cum marte retexit. (Walther, Initia carminum, no. 19301, citing only this manuscript.)

f. 180v: Three lines of verse on types of Nymph.,(‘De nimphis.’), begins ‘Arbor amadriades...’ ends ‘...Nereidesque mari.’ (cf. Munk-Olsen, L'étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles: Catalogue des manuscrits classiques latins copiés du IXe au XIIe siècle, 2 vos.,(Paris: CERF, 1982), vol. 2., p. 547 under no. C. 73).

f. 180v: Two distichs: 1.): ‘Differentia inter manes. animas. Umbras’, begins ‘Stix manes. Celumque animas...’. 2.) begins ‘Corpora uiua regunt anime...’

f. 180v: Distich: ‘De fluviis inferni’, begins ‘Stix odium. leches oblivio...’

f. 180v: Tetrahistichon: ‘De fatis tribus’ begins ‘Per ternas metas fatorum voluitur etas...’ (Walther, Initia carminum, no. 13968).

f. 180v: Three lines of verse; ‘De tribus furiis inferni’ begins ‘Si sibi bachatur mens tunc allecto vocatur...’

f. 180v: Monostichon: ‘Item de fatis.’ begins ‘Cloto colum baiulat lachesis trahit attropos occat...’ (Walther, Initia carminum, no. 2943).

f. 180v: Distich: ‘De nominibus Diane. et eius trina potestate’, begins ‘Ima. superna. feras...’ (Walther, Initia carminum, no. 8754).

f. 180v: Distich: ‘De nominibus solis’ begins ‘Cinthius. et pean. phebus. cirreus. Apollo...’

f. 180v: Three lines of verse: ‘De nominibus ventorum’, begins ‘Gurus. Vulturnus. Subsolanus. zephirusque....’

ff. 180v-181r: Six lines of verse.: ‘De periculis maris’, begins ‘Alliciunt sirtes. absorbet scilla. caribdis....’

f. 181r: Ennius, Distich on the twelve deities. ‘Distigium Ennii de xii^cim diis.’, begins ‘Iuno. Vesta. Minerva. Ceres. Diana. Venus. Mars.’

f. 181r: Notes on Latin patronymic names, begins ‘Omne patronomicum est masculini uel femini.’

f. 181v-191r: Arnulf of Orleans, Commentary on the Metamorphoses. (‘Mutaciones O. Metham. quedam allegorice quedam moraliter quedam historice hic exponuntur. Incipit de primo libro. Mutatio prima.’), begins ‘Quod chaos in species mutatur. in rei ueritate fuit...’ ends ‘...ad locum ubi erat puer. Explicit commentum metamorph.’ (See Munk-Olsen, L'étude des auteurs (1982), p. 120 no. 103; Ghisalberti, Arnolfo (1932), pp. 201-29.

f. 191r: Excerpt from Priscian, Book 10, on fourth conjugation verbs.

Decoration:

Decorated with a few large blue and red initials; small green initials on ff. 189v-190r. Illustrated with (i) a circular diagram labelled in the centre 'Aurea cathena macrobii', with intersecting semi-circles marked 'Ignis', 'calidus', 'aer', 'humidus', etc. (f. 3r, lower margin); (ii) a circular diagram showing five horizontal zones, 'frigida', 'temperata', etc., and (iii) a diagram based on the Boethian division of the monochord, marked with names of the sun, moon, and five planets. Headings in red (or blue, f. 130v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237105

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 224 : Ovid, Metamorphoses with preface and commentary by Arnulf of Orléans and other poetic texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0219]/040-002237105

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1230

End Date:

1270

Date Range:

Mid 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 195 x 115 mm (text space 140 x 55 mm), in 34 lines (ff. 182v-191r have 43 lines). Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. i + 193 (ff. i, 192-193 are flyleaves). Twysden pagination 1-380.

Collation: i⁸⁺² (1st and 2nd leaves inserted; ff. 1-10), ii-xxiii⁸ (ff. 11-186), xxiv^6-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 187-191). Catchwords towards the left. Quire signatures I-XXII.

Script: Gothic, written 'above top line'

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished calf; rebacked. Previously bound with Burney MS. 330.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed by him (f. 2r), with his pagination and his (?) notes (f. 1v).

Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: sold by him at the 'Twysden' sale, 6 April 1807, lot 1107 (still bound with Burney MS 330), bought by Burney for £2 5s.

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=1501&CollID=18&NStart=224].

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.

D. A. Slater, Towards a text of the Metamorphosis of Ovid (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), p. 34, this manuscript as 'P'.

F. Ghisalberti, 'Arnolfo d'Orléans: un cultore di Ovidio nel secolo XII', Memorie del R. Instituto Lombardo di Scienze e Lettere. Classe di lettere, 24/4 (1932), 157-234.

F. W. Lenz, 'Die Wiedergewinnung der von Heinsius benutzten Ovidhandschriften in den letzten fünfzig Jahren', Eranos: Acta Philologica Suecana a Vilelmo Lundstrom Condita, ed. by Tönnes Kleberg and Gudmund Björck, 51 (1953), 66-88 (p. 83 no. 60).

F. 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. 161.

H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi posterioris Latinorum, 2nd ed. (Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 1959), nos. 2943, 8754, 13968, 19301.

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997), IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.

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, p. 120 no. 103, and p. 547 no. C.73.

F. T. Coulson and K.Nawotka, 'The Rediscovery of Arnulf of Orleans' glosses to Ovid's Creation Myth', Classica et Mediaevalia, 44 (1993), 267-99 (pp. 273-75 and passim, siglum 'L').

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Arnulf, bishop of Orléans, d 1003
Ennius, Quintus, Roman writer, c 239-c 169 BC
Ovidius Naso, Publius, Roman poet, 43 BC-17,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121427757
Priscian, fl 500-530,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069
Sebright, John Saunders, 7th Baronet, politician and agriculturalist, 1767-1846
Twysden, Roger, Antiquary, d 1672

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 330