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Burney MS 226

Record Id:

040-002237107

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000112

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 226

Title:

Humanistictexts and translations

Scope & Content:

A humanistic miscellany comprising texts and translations by 15th-century humanist scholars.Contents:

ff. 2r-7v: Pseudo-Plato, Axiochus sive de morte, translated intoLatin by Rudolph Agricola, begins ‘Exeunti ad Cvnosarges mihi cum adIllissum’. This MS preserves the earliest version of Agricola's translation.

ff. 8r-20r: Poggio, De praestantiaCaesari et Scipionis. (‘Poggii poeteFlorentini Comparatio in Cęsarem & Scipionem. Ad Scipionem Mainentem.’), begins‘Rem sane arduam...’ (Printed without reference to this copy by G. Crevatin, ‘Lapolitica e la retorica’, in PoggioBracciolini, 1380 – 1980, ed by R. Fubini & S. Caroti ( Florence , 1982),pp. 309-26.).

ff. 20v-22r: Lucian, Contentio depresidentia P. Scipionis. (‘Alexandri Anibalis & Scipionis Comparatio’),translated into Latin by Giovanni Aurispa with dedicatory epistle by Garino ofVerona. Imperfect, begins ‘Cum in rebus bellicis semper....’ ends ‘...Sed me hominem fatebar.’ (printed in Lucianus Samosatensis: Scipio siveDisceptatio super presidentia inter Alexandrum, Hannibalem et Scipionem.[Venice: Hannibal Foxius, 1472].

ff. 23r-23v: Letter from Poggio toLeonello d’Este, dated at Florence, 25 Oct., begins ‘Existimo magnum pondushabere apud te…’.(Printed with mention of this copy in Ernst Walser, Poggius Florentinus. Leben und Werke, (Leipzig/ Berlin 1914), p. 436.)

ff. 23v-25r: Letter from Poggio to Francesco Barbaro, written at Florence, begins‘Licet sciam permultas esse occupationes tuas…’. (Printed in Poggii Opera (Basel, 1538), f. 356.)

ff. 25r-61v: Letter from Poggio to Francesco Barbaro, against Guarino of Verona, begins ‘Nuper cum exercendi ingeniicausa...’ . (Printed in Poggii Opera (Basel,1538), ff. 365-90.)

ff. 62r-62v: Prefatory letter to thefollowing work. (‘Lippus Aurelius Augustinianus heremita B.P. ac domino nostroAlexandro .VI. Pont. Max. salutem in domino et fœlicitatem dicit.’), begins ‘Quumapud B. tuam proxime in parasceve orationem….’

ff. 62v-71v. Lippus Aurelius Brandolinus, Sermon on the Passion of Christ to Pope AlexanderVI (‘Lippi Aurelii Brandolini Augustiniani æremitę oratio de virtutibus domininostri Ihesu Christi nobis in eius passione ostensis Romæ ad Alexandrum SextumPontificem maximum in parasceve habita.’), begins ‘Etsi tuus tuique…’. (Printedin Lorenzo de Villavicencio, De formandis sacris concionibus, (Madrid, 1788),pp. 253-72.).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237107

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 226 : Humanistic__NEWLINE__texts and translations

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0221]/040-002237107

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 198x 150 (150 x 95) mm.

Foliation: ff.iv + 74 + 7*, 22*, 22**, 22***, 61* (ff. i-iv, 72-74 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 121-272. .

Collation:1⁸(ff. 1-7*), 2¹⁰ (ff. 8-17), 3⁸ (ff. 18-22***), 4-7¹⁰(ff. 23-61*), 8¹⁰ (ff. 62-71). Catchwords in parts II, III, andin the middle of the last gathering.

Script: Humanistic, written 'below top line'. Witha few headings in pale red. Ruled inleadpoint and in blind. Several hands.

Binding: Burney‘Sicily’ binding; flyleaf with watermark ‘W Turner & Son’. . Ff. 1 and 7* have horizontal creases and are blankexcept for a title ‘Plato de morte’, suggesting that the first text formerlyexisted as an unbound booklet. Formerlybound after Burney MS. 134, as indicated by the pagination, and by part of atitle written across the lower edge of the leaves.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Purchased by Burney at the anonymous ‘Sicily’sale at Sotheby’s, 19 April 1817, lot 33, for 2s.

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. 60-1.Ernst Walser, Poggius Florentinus. Leben und Werke, (Leipzig / Berlin 1914), p. 436.

J. Hankins, Plato in theItalian Renaissance, vol. 2. (Leiden: Brill, 1991), p. 694 number, 140.

G . Tournoy , ‘Marsile Ficin , Agricola et leurs traductions de l 'Axiochos ,’ in Rodolphus AgricolaPhrisius 1444-1485, ed. by F . Akkerman and A . J . Vanderjagt (Leiden: Brill,1988), pp. 211-28 (214-18).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Aurispa, Johannes, Siculus, d 1459
Bracciolini, Poggio, scholar and humanist, 1380-1459,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/19722038
Brandolini, Aurelio, called Lippo, of Florence, 1454-1497
Lucianus, Samosatensis, c 125-180

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 134