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Burney MS 233

Record Id:

040-002237114

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000119

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 233

Title:

Selected Excerpts from Priscian

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 4r-119v: Priscian, Excerpts from his Institutiones grammaticae, (Books XVII and XVIII: De constructione) In the first section (ff. 4-67v) with sporadic, but sometimes extensive original and added marginal and interlinear glosses.

f. 119v: 'Tres digiti scribunt cetera membra dolent', a variant of a common colophon (cf. Royal MS 6 A.vi).

Decoration:

The first and earlier section is decorated with a historiated initial (f. 4r) in gold and colours (badly rubbed) depicting a seated male figure gesticulating (Priscian teaching?); two- or three-line initials in red with brownish penwork, or blue with red flourishing, the flourishing sometimes with rudimentary human figures or heads; capitals stroked in red; paraphs in red and blue. Small initials alternately plain red or blue, with paraphs alternately red or blue, in the work of the second scribe.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237114

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 233 : Selected Excerpts from Priscian

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0228]/040-002237114

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment and paper.

Dimensions: 265 x 185 mm (text space 150 x 80 mm), in 22 lines.

Foliation: ff. 122 + 1*, 3*, 3** (f. 1 is pasted to the front pastedown; ff. 2-3 are inserted notes on paper; ff. 3*, 3**, 120, and 121 are parchemnt flyleaves; ff. 1* and 122 are paper).

Collation: i-ii⁸ (ff. 4-20), iii ^nine (ff. 21-29), iv¹⁰ (ff. 30-39), v⁸ (ff. 40-47), vi-viii¹⁰ (ff. 48-77), ix⁸ (ff. 78-85), x-xi¹⁰ (ff. 86-105), xii¹² (ff. 106-117), xiii^2(?) (ff. 118-119).

Script: Written in round gothic scripts in two stages, by two main scribes: first and earlier hand in ff. 4r-67v, second and later hand in ff. 68r-119v. Worm-holes show that the volume formerly ended imperfectly at f. 67v, and that the gatherings from f. 68r were added at a later date: the parchment, ruling, script, decoration, etc., change at this point.

Binding: Post-1600. Typical Askew binding of diced calf, with the usual 'palmette and fleur-de-lys' gilt roll, marbled endpapers and parchment flyleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin: Perhaps Italy.

Provenance:

Unidentified owner, 15th century: inscribed '… Assig(na)t(ur) … …' (f. 119v, erased).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: bound for him; his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 513, bought by Lambert for 17s.

Samuel Parr (b. 1747, d. 1825), schoolmaster and friend of Charles Burney: with a nine-line inscription in Greek on a piece of paper (f. 1r) stuck to the pastedown, recording the gift from Parr to Burney in 1795.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar. Probably annotated by him (ff. 2r-3r).

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=1452&CollID=18&NStart=233].

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. 62.

Margaret Gibson, 'Priscian, ''Institutiones grammaticae'': a Handlist of Manuscripts', Scriptorium, 26 (1972), pp. 105-24 (p. 114).

Marina Passalacqua, I codici di Prisciano, Sussidi eruditi, 29 (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978), no. 313.

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts (Stuttgart, 1981; Grammatica speculativa, 4), p. 114.

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
Parr, Samuel, English schoolmaster; LLD, 1747-1825
Priscian, fl 500-530,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069