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Burney MS 232
- Record Id:
- 040-002237113
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000118
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 232
- Title:
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Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r–89v: Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum.
ff. 90r–92r: followed by an anonymous compilation of memorable deeds and sayings.
Decoration:
Spaces left for coloured initials. Headings in pale red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237113 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 232 : Sextus Pompeius Festus, Epitome of Verrius Flaccus, De significatu uerborum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0227]/040-002237113
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1447
- End Date:
- 1447
- Date Range:
- 26 May 1447
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Paper.
Dimensions: 250 x 170 mm (text space 155 x 100 mm), in 32 lines. Ruled in blind.
Foliation: ff. iv + 96 (ff. i-ii, 95-96 are flyleaves; iii-iv, 93-94 are former flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-174.
Collation: i-ii10 (ff. 1-20), iii-v12 (ff. 21-56), vi14 (ff. 57-70), vii-viii12 (ff. 71-92). Catchwords.
Script: Written in humanistic script, with headings usually in capitals.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney(?) binding of lightly diced polished calf, blind tooled.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, N. (perhaps Milan, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library).
Provenance:
Immediately after the explicit inscribed with a date, but in different script '1447 26 maij' (f. 89v).
Maffeo Pinelli (d. 1785) of Venice (his inventory number, see Morelli 1787, no. 7944): his sale, 1789, lot 12850, bought by Edwards for 6s.
James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller.
John Haddon Hindley (b. 1765, d. 1827), orientalist: perhaps his sale, 1793, lot 1190, bought by Egerton for 4s.6d.
John Egerton: his sale, 1794, lot 1458, sold for £1 1s.
Unidentified owner: included in the anonymous sale 'A Catalogue of a very fine collection of modern miscellaneous Books. Greek and Roman Classics, and ancient Manuscripts', 27 June 1811, lot 224, bought by Heber for £1 1s.
Richard Heber (b. 1774, d. 1833), book collector.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy, N. (perhaps Milan, according to unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library).
- Publications:
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Iacobo Morelli, Bibliotheca Maphaei Pinellii Veneti, 6 vols (Venice: Typis Palesii, 1787), III, no. 7944.
Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 62.
Andrew 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), no. 506.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Egerton, John, bookseller, d 1795
Festus, Sextus Pompeius, Roman grammarian, fl 2nd century AD
Heber, Richard, book collector, 1773-1833
Hindley, John Hadden, orientalist, 1765-1827
Pinelli, Maffeo, of Venice, book-collector, 1736-1785