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Burney MS 237
- Record Id:
- 040-002237118
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00011d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 237
- Title:
- Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, (books 17-18); Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript contains two texts about Latin grammar: the two last books of the Institutiones grammaticae (Institutes of Grammar) of Priscian (fl. c. 500), often called the Priscianus minor (Lesser Priscian), as in the added title on f. 2v; and De accentibus (On Accents) by Pseudo-Priscian (fl. c. 500-600). It is ruled with wide margins for glosses, and is extensively glossed throughout in ink and leadpoint in several near-contemporaneous cursive hands.
Content:
ff. 2r-2v: Grammatical notes, added in a 14th-century hand, and a title referring to the text on the following folio, ‘Priscianus minor’ (f. 2v).
ff. 3r-81v: Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, Books 17-18, imperfect at the end. Explicit: ‘qui laudibus utriusque gloriari student doctrine’.
ff. 82r-89r: Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus, beginning: ‘Litera est nota elementi’.
ff. 89r: Short note added in 14th-century hand, beginning: ‘[Prol]empsis est rerum seriatim’.
[ff. 1v, 89v are blank].
Decoration:
3 large puzzle initials in red and blue, with pen-flourishing in red and blue (f. 3r, 53r, 82r), the first two with a partial border in red and blue. Small initials are alternatively red or blue, with pen-flourishing in the other colour. Paraph marks throughout, alternately red or blue. Frequent marginal notation symbols, such as maniculae, in the margins (e.g. 5r, 7r).
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237118 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 237 : Priscian, Institutiones grammaticae, (books 17-18); Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0232]/040-002237118
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of the 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 205 x 155 mm (written area 100 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 90; f. 1 is a pre-modern parchment flyleaf; f. 90 is a modern parchment flyleaf; f. 2 is a parchment stub, inserted into the quire; f. 89 has been damaged, perhaps by water, and the bottom half is restored.
Collation: i10+1 (1st leaf inserted; ff. 2-12); ii-v10 (ff. 13-52); vi-vii12 (ff. 53-76); viii14-1 (last leaf missing; ff. 77-89).
Script: Gothic, written below top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled red morocco binding with the gold-tooled Burney ownership mark; gilt fore-edge; spine rebacked at the British Museum.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France.
Provenance:
Unidentified owner, probably French, 14th century: added notes in Gothic cursiva (specifically "secretary") script (ff. 89r-v).
Unidentified owner, 15th century?: inscription of a shelfmark from an unidentified library, the first letter of which is probably the abbreviated name of the author, in red and black: ‘.P. X.2o.’ (f. 88v).
Unidentified owner, 18th century: inscribed with a title in Latin (f. 1r).
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 Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/welcome.htm.
- Publications:
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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. 63.
Margaret Gibson, ‘Priscian, ‘‘Institutiones grammaticae”: A Handlist of Manuscripts’, Scriptorium, 26 (1972), 105-24 (p. 114).
Marina Passalacqua, I codici di Prisciano, Sussidi eruditi, 29 (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1978), no. 317, p. 140.
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4, (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), no. 88 (p. 114).
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 132.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Priscian, fl 500-530,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000399133112,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/76294069 - Subjects:
- Grammar
- Related Material:
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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. 63:
‘Codex membranaceus, in 4to., ff. 89, sec. XIV. ineuntis.
1. Prisciani Caesariensis Commentariorum Grammaticorum libri xvii. et xviii. de Constructione; glossis notisque perpetuis illustrati. fol. 3. Tit. “Priscianus minor.”Deficit lib. xviii. in verbis, “qui laudibus utriusque gloriari student doctrinae.” ed. Putschii, col. 1166.
2. Ejusdem de Accentibus liber. fol. 82.
In fine, ”Explicit parvum volumen Prisciani.”’