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Burney MS 229

Record Id:

040-002237110

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000115

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 229

Title:

Pliny the Younger, Letters

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2r-3r: Johannes Mansionarius of Verona, Note on the two Plinys. (‘Brevis annotatio de duobus Pliniis Veronensibus.’) beginning ‘Plinii duo fuisse noscuntur eodem nomine et prenominibis appellati’. (Printed in Elmer Truesdell Merrill, ‘On the Eight-Book Tradition of Pliny's Letters in Verona’, Classical Philology 5 (1910), 175-88 (pp. 186-188).

ff. 3r-81v. Epistolae, 1-7 and 9.

Decoration:

Decorated with initials in plain pale red. Headings often in purple.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237110

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 229 : Pliny the Younger, Letters

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0228]/040-002237110

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Greek, Ancient
Latin

Scripts:

Greek
Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 285 x 210 mm (text space 195 x 130 mm), 31 lines.

Foliation: ff. 82 (ff. 1, 82 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-160.

Collation: i-viii¹⁰ (ff. 2-81). Catchwords, vertical from the 5th gathering onwards. Leaf signatures.

Script: Written in cursive humanistic script, 'below top line'; Greek supplied by a skilled scribe in paler ink; headings in capitals.

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Askew binding of 18th-century red morocco, the covers framed with a gilt tool of alternating animals and musicians, the same as that used on Burney MS 201; flyleaves with a watermark 'WR' below an escutcheon with a fleur-de-lis, surmounted by a coronet (cf. Burney MS 222); the edges of the leaves gilt; the first and last leaves with rust marks from a former binding.

Custodial History:

Origin: Northern Italy, (perhaps Ferrara)

Provenance:

Annotated almost certainly in the hand of Guarino da Verona (e.g. ff. 5r, 79r), according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.

Inscribed, 17th and 18th century, by different hands: 'Human. [?] p. 83' (front pastedown, top left corner); with a leaf-count 'C^te n^o 81' (f. 81v); and with a price(?) '19.19-' (back pastedown).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, Leigh and Sotheby, 7 March 1785, lot 407, bought by Lewes for 12s.6d.

Sold with other Askew-Lewes MSS. by Leigh and Sotheby, 12 Feb. 1787, lot 1508, bought by D'Éon for £1 4s.

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier D'Éon de Beaumont in the French nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite: inscribed in black ink 'De la Bibliotheque de la Chevalière D’Eon ./.' (f. 1r), and in red ink '£25.st.' (front pastedown); D'Éon sale, part IV, 1791, lot 9 (described as 'olim Maffeianus', probably in error); D'Éon sale 1813, lot 8.

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. 61.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier, diplomat and spy, 1728-1810
Guarino da Verona, Italian humanist and scholar, 1374-1460,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123211124
Plinius Caecilius Secundus, Caius, also known as Pliny the Younger, 61-c 113