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Burney MS 241

Record Id:

040-002237122

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000121

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 241

Title:

Sextus Propertius, Elegiae

Scope & Content:

This manuscript largely consists of the four books of Elegiae (Elegies) by the poet Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). They are followed by a late medieval anonymous derivative of the first book of Propertius’ Elegiae (also known as the Monobiblos, or ‘Single book’, because of its sole focus on the figure of Cynthia).

Contents:

f. 1r: An added note in 17th-century hand.

ff. 2r-94v: Sextus Propertius, Elegiae.

ff. 94v-95r: Anonymous derivative version of Monobiblos (book 1 of the Elegiae), beginning: ‘Qui quidem dicitur monobyblos a monos’.

[ff. 96r-v are blank].

Decoration:

3 large initials in colours and gold, on a square ground in purple or gold (ff. 2r, 18v, 73v). Medium initials alternately in plain red or blue. Small initials alternately in red or green. Headings in green or red. A heraldic achievement of arms, added in the 17th century (f. 2r).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237122

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 241 : Sextus Propertius, Elegiae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0236]/040-002237122

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1474

Date Range:

3rd quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 170 x 115 mm (written area 120 x 70 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 98; ff. i, 1 and 98 are original parchment flyleaves; f. 97 is a list of contents added by Burney; Burney pagination in ink, now crossed out.

Collation: i² (ff. i-1), ii-x¹⁰ (ff. 2-91), xi^6-1 (last leaf missing; ff. 92-96).

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of lightly diced brown leather; marbled endpapers; the edges of the leaves are red; spine re-backed in the British Museum in 1950.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Northeast.

Provenance:

Pompileus Maghegnatus, notary of Castelfranco Veneto(?), c. 17th century: inscribed ‘Hic liber est me, Pompileus Maghegnatus Notarius, et Cives Castri Franci’ (f. 1r).

An unknown member of the Venetian Morosini family, 17th century: the family's arms, or, a bend azure, surmounted by a helm argent and an eagle crest sable langued gules, lion rampant supporters each robed or a bend azure (f. 2r).

?Daniel Heinsius (b. 1580, d. 1655): probably to be identified with no. 617 in his library (see Butrica, Manuscript Tradition, p. 245).

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:

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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.

James L. Butrica, The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius, Phoenix, Supplementary volume 17 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), pp. 138-39, 146-48, no. 54 (p. 245), and Appendix 1.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Heinsius, Daniel, Dutch scholar and poet, 1580-1655,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000110638452
Maghegnatus, Pompileus, notary, of Castelfranco Veneto, 17th century
Propertius, Sextus, 45 BC-15 BC

Related Material:

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 chartaceus, in 4to. minori, pp. 189, sec. XV. exeuntis; quondam Pompilei Maghegnati notarii, et civis Castri Franci.

Sexti Aurelii Propertii Carminum libri quatuor. In fine, “Propertii Aurelii Nautae monobibli quartus et ultimus liber explicit.”’