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Burney MS 240
- Record Id:
- 040-002237121
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000120
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 240
- Title:
- Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium
- Scope & Content:
- A copy of Cambridge, Trinity College MS 826, a 15th-century copy of the lives of Cornelius Nepos as explained in a note on f. 1 'written from a very ancient MSS in trin. Coll. Library Cant.'
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237121 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 240 : Cornelius Nepos, Liber de excellentibus ducibus exterarum gentium - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0235]/040-002237121
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper manuscript
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1700
- End Date:
- 1799
- Date Range:
- 18th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Material: Paper.Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (writing space 155 x 120 mm in one column)Script: 18th century cursive.Foliation: ff 1-66 with 3 blank leaves between ff. 1-2 and 3 flyleaves at the end of the volume.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
- Origin: England (Cambridge)Provenance: 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. 63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Nepos, Cornelius, c 110-c 25 BC
- Related Material:
- Copy of Cambridge, Trinity College MS 826