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Burney MS 228

Record Id:

040-002237109

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000114

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 228

Title:

Plautus, Comedies; with prologues and arguments

Scope & Content:

A humanist copy of the collected comedies of Plautus.

Contents:

ff. 1r-19v: Amphitruo, preceded (f. 1) by two arguments.

ff. 20r-35v: Asinaria, preceded (f. 20) by a prologue and an acrostic argument.

ff. 36r-50r: Aulularia, preceded (f. 36) by two arguments, the second an acrostic.

ff. 50v-67r: Captivi, preceded (f. 50v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 67v-79r: Circulio, preceded (f. 67v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 81r-93r: Casina, preceded (f. 79v-80v) by prologue and an acrostic argument.

ff. 93v-101r: Cistellaria, preceded (f. 93v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 101v-111v. Epidicus, preceded (f. 101v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 113r-129v: Bacchides, starting incomplete at ‘Quid si hoc potus’, preceded by two unwritten pages.

ff. 130r-147r: Mostellaria, preceded (f. 130) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 147v-165r: Menaechmi, preceded (f. 147v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 165v-187v: Miles gloriosus, preceded (f. 165v) by two arguments, the first an acrostic.

ff. 188r-202v: Mercator, preceded (f. 188) by two arguments, the first an acrostic.

ff. 203r-220v: Pseudolus, preceded (f. 203) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 221r-237r: Poenulus, preceded (f. 221) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 237r-247v: Persa, preceded (f. 237) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 247v-263v: Rudens, preceded (f. 247v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 264r-273v: Stichus, preceded (f. 264) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 273v-286r: Trinumus, preceded (f. 273v) by an acrostic argument.

ff. 286r-298r: Truculentus, preceded (f. 278v) by an acrostic argument.

f. 298v: The epitaph from Plautus’s tombstone, as quoted in Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae, 1.24.

Decoration:

3 large gold initials, incorporated into a historiated white vine-stem border, in colours and gold, with the god Mercury, and putti supporting an unidentified coat of arms: argent, a chevron gules, a bordure compony gules and argent, surmounted by a mitre (rubbed) (f. 1r); large white vine-stem initials, in colours and gold. Small initials in blue.

Headings in pale pink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237109

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 228 : Plautus, Comedies; with prologues and arguments

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0223]/040-002237109

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1430

End Date:

1470

Date Range:

Mid 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 320 x 225 mm (text space 235 x 165 mm), in 31 lines. Ruled in leadpoint.

Foliation: ff. v + 302 (ff. i-iii, v and 299-302 are flyleaves; f. iv is a leaf from W. M. Lindsay, The Codex Turnebi of Plautus (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1898)). Burney pagination 1-593. Former 19th-century pencil foliation in lower gutter corner.

Collation: i-xxix¹⁰(ff. 1-290), xxx⁸ (ff. 291-298). Vertical catchwords.

Script: Humanistic, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney(?) binding of polished brown leather; the edges gilt; marbled endpapers; rebacked; between 1800 and 1817?

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy (perhaps Naples or Siena, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library).

Provenance:

Unidentified owner (a bishop?): overpainted arms perhaps consisting of a fleur-de-lys on a mount(?), surmounted by a mitre (f. 1r), possibly Hieronimus Trivisanus, bishop of Cremona, or a member of the Alderisio family of Termini, south of Naples near Sorrento; Capelletto (1988) relates the text to a Neapolitan family of texts.

A member of the Antella family, of Florence: the family's arms, painted over earlier arms: argent, a chevron gules, here with a bordure compony gules and argent (f. 1r).

Unidentified owner, last quarter of the 15th century or first quarter of the 16th century: inscribed 'Plautus poeta laureat(us) / Ego sum posessor huius libri [Guill…or Gauth… ?] / [de me…j?] Saluo Iuro (?) […]' (f. 298v).

Unidentified owner: in the anonymous sale: Catalogue of a Very Valuable Assemblage of MSS … Lately Collected by a Gentleman on the Continent, 20 May 1815, lot 51, bought by Burney for £52 10s.

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=6855&CollID=18&NStart=228].

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. 61.

Rita Cappelletto, La 'lectura Plauti' del Pontano: con edizione delle postille del cod. Vindob. lat. 3168 e osservazioni sull''Itala recensio', Ludus philologiae, 2 (Urbino: QuattroVenti, 1988), pp. 66-70 and pls. XVII-Xxa.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Antella, Family, 12th century-17th century
Plautus, Titus Maccius, Roman playwright, c 254-184 BC