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Burney MS 238

Record Id:

040-002237119

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00011e

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 238

Title:

‘Master Guido’, Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Didascalicon

Scope & Content:

This manuscript contains two fragments of texts on grammar and learning: one of three known parts of the Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (Gloss on Priscianus Minor) of the unidentified ‘Master Guido’ (fl. c. 1100-1125), and Didascalicon de studio legendi (Didascalion, or, On the Study of Reading) by Hugh of Saint-Victor (b. c. 1096, d. 1141). It was originally part of the same manuscript as the second part of Harley MS 2713 (ff. 35r-42v) and Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale MS 90 (pp. 359-338). Together, the folios of these three manuscripts originally contained the only known copy of the entire Glosulae super Priscianum minorem (see Kneepkens, 'Master Guido' (1978), pp. 109-116). The leaves containing the Glosulae are now bound out of order. The correct order of the text is: ff. 3-11, 30-35, 12 [continued in Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale MS 90], 13-29, 36 [continued in Harley MS 2713].

Content:

ff. 3r-26v: ‘Master Guido’, Glosulae super Priscianum minorem, imperfect and bound out of order, beginning: 'Quoniam in ante expositis libris. Proposuit auctor tractare de litteris .iiii. modis varians’. Ending, imperfect: ‘Si enim docentur ipse’.

ff. 37r-v: Fragment of Hugh of Saint-Victor, Didascalicon de studio legendi.

Decoration:

1 puzzle initial in brown ink (f. 3r). Spaces left for initials that were not executed (ff. 12v, 21v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237119

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 238 : ‘Master Guido’, Glosulae super Priscianum minorem; Hugh of Saint-Victor, Didascalicon

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0237]/040-002237119

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1125

End Date:

1174

Date Range:

2nd quarter 12th century-3rd quarter 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 175 x 100 mm (written area 155 x 85 mm, in two columns).

Foliation: ff. i + 38; ff. i, 1-2, and 38 are 18th-century paper flyleaves (f. 38 has watermark ‘CM / T’); Burney pagination in black ink, now crossed out; all margins have been heavily trimmed by later owners.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Gold-tooled (probably French) red morocco leather binding with the gold-tooled Burney ownership mark added; the edges of all leaves are blue.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 12 February 1787, lot 1493, bought by D’Éon for 9s.

Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée D'Éon de Beaumont, Chevalier D'Éon in the French nobility (b. 1728, d. 1810), diplomatist and transvestite: inscribed in black ink ‘Fragmenta Commentationis In Priscianum, De la Bibliotheque de la Chevalière D’Eon, olim Maffeianus’ (f. 1); inscribed note in French attributed to D’Éon, by another 18th-century hand (f. 2r-v); in the sale of D’Éon’s library, part IV, in 1791, lot 42 (described as ‘olim Maffeianus’, probably in error); in the sale of D’Éon’s library in 1813, lot 12.

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:

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.

B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1955), 373-82 (p. 374, no. 10).

José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 323, no. 27).

C. H. Kneepkens, ‘Master Guido and his View on Government: On Twelfth-Century Linguistic Thought’, Vivarium, 16 (1978), 108-41 (esp. pp. 109-11).

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4, (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), no. 89 (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.

C. H. Kneepkens, ‘Transitivity, Intransitivity and Related Concepts in 12th Century Grammar: An Explorative Study’, in De ortu grammaticae: Studies in Medieval Grammar and Linguistic Theory in Memory of Jan Pinborg, ed. By G. L. Bursill-Hall, Sten Ebbesen, and Konrad Koerner, Amsterdam Studies in the Theory and History of Linguistic Science, Series III, 43 (Amsterdam: John Benjamins, 1990), 161-189 (pp. 166-67).

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
Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Hugh of Saint-Victor, c 1096-1141,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121201563,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9865788

Related Material:

Formerly part of the same manuscript as the second part of Harley MS 2713 (ff. 35r-42v), and Orléans, Bibliothèque municipale MS 90 (pp. 359-338).

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:

‘Membranaceus, in 8vo, sec. XIII., binis columnis, charactere minuto exaratus; olim familiae Maffeianae, nuper “de la bibliothèque de la Chevalière d’Eon.”

1. Anonymi Commentarius in Prisciani Caesariensis libros de constructione. [mutil.] p. 1. Incip. “Quoniam in ante expositis. Proposuit auctor tractare de litteris iiii. modis varians.” Deficit in verbis, “a singulari numero dirivantur. Si enim docentur, ipse.

2. Scholastica quaedam de visibilibus et invisibilibus. p. 69.’