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Burney MS 234

Record Id:

040-002237115

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00011a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 234

Title:

Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect

Scope & Content:

An incomplete 12th-century copy of one of the most popular Latin grammars of the Middle Ages.

Contents:

ff. 1r-144v: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect; with a four-line heading, barely legible.; ending imperfect in Book 9 at in .v. famaque [catchword:] finitimos.

Decoration:

Seven-line initial, reserved on a red field, enclosing interlacing green foliage on a blue ground (f. 1); one- to six-line initials in plain red, some with rudimentary ornament.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237115

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 234 : Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, imperfect

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0229]/040-002237115

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1160

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

Late 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 235 x 155 mm (text space 175 x 105 mm), usually in 28 or 30 lines. Ruled in blind.

Foliation: ff. iii + 148 (ff. i-iii, 146-148 are flyleaves). Burney pagination 1-288.

Collation: 1-18⁸ (ff. 1-144). Catchwords towards the centre of the lower margin.

Script: Written in caroline script, 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney(?) binding of lightly diced calf, blind tooled; flyleaves watermarked 'E & P 1805' (cf. Burney MS 146 etc.); a former flyleaf watermarked with of the arms of Amsterdam (f. 145r).

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy.

Provenance:

Inscribed with near-contemporary and later medieval marginal and interlinear glosses and corrections.

Inscribed, 18th century, with brief notes on the extent of the text (ff. 1r, 147r).

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. 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. 314.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Priscian, fl 500-530,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069