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Burney MS 225

Record Id:

040-002237106

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000111

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 225

Title:

Persius, Satires

Scope & Content:

ff. 1r-18v: Persius, Satires, ending ‘Aulii Persii Flacii Vulcerani Satirarum. Liber explicit foeliciter. Anno domini a nativitate mill(esim)o a nativitate quadragetesimo [sic] Qui(n)to. die .x^o. me(n)sis septenbris [sic] 1465.’

Decoration:

Headings in red capitals.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237106

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 225 : Persius, Satires

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0220]/040-002237106

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1465

End Date:

1465

Date Range:

1465

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space 120 x 90 mm), in 19 lines. Ruled in leadpoint (ff. ix-xviii, 21-22, ruled with leadpoint verticals and 30 ink horizontal lines, apparently using a ten-nibbed instrument: see ff. x, xv, etc.; ff. 23-30 ruled in blind).

Foliation: ff. xviii + 32 (ff. i-viii, 31-32 are flyleaves). Early/original foliation in the lower right corner. Burney pagination 1-35. The leaves were formerly in the following order: ff. 1-20, ix-xviii, 21-30.

Collation: i-ii¹⁰ (ff. 1-20). Catchwords.

Script: Written 'below top line' in Gothic script; spaces for coloured initals.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of diced polished calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed with scribal colophon (f. 18v), by the same scribe as Burney MS 268, with which it was formerly bound; the parts were together when in the anonymous sale at Christie’s, 19 May 1803, lot 56, bought by Burney.

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.

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.

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 505, II, pl. 675.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Persius Flaccus, Aulus, 34-62,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451431,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100198157

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 268