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Burney MS 242
- Record Id:
- 040-002237123
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000122
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 242
- Title:
- Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Filippo Beroaldo, hendecasyllabic verse; Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, verse
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript was copied from a printed edition of the Elegiae (Elegies) of Sextus Propertius (b. c. 50, d. c. 16 BC). This is clear because of the added poems by Filippo Beroaldo the Elder (b. 1453, d. 1505) and Hieronymus Salius Faventinus (d. 1509) at the end of the Elegiae, which also appear in the edition of Propertius by Beroaldo (printed in 1487 in Bologna). However, the spelling ‘Hietoymi’ for Hieronymus’ name suggests that it was in fact copied from the 1493 reprint of Beroaldo’s edition, by Simon Bevilaqua in Venice, where the same error occurs (see Butrica, Manuscript Tradition, pp. 166-67).
Contents:
ff. 1r-70r: Sextus Propertius, Elegiae.
ff. 70r-v: Filippo Beroaldo, a hendecasyllabic verse, beginning: ‘Quisquis carptor es et calumniator’.
ff. 70v-71r: Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, short verse with the title ‘Hietoymi Salii Faventini in invidum carmen’, and beginning: ‘Invide quid laceras facundi scripta Philippi’.
[f. 71v is blank].
Decorations:
1 large initial, (erased) with a white vine border (also erased) (f. 1r). 1 large initial, in colours on a gold ground (over the erasure, f. 1r). 1 large zoomorphic initial in ink on a blue ground (f. 36v). 1 large initial, drawn in ink (f. 53v). Smaller initials in gold throughout.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237123 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 242 : Sextus Propertius, Elegiae; Filippo Beroaldo, hendecasyllabic verse; Hieronymus Salius Faventinus, verse - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0237]/040-002237123
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1493
- End Date:
- 1530
- Date Range:
- 1493-c 1525
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 145 x 85 mm (written area 115 x 60 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 75; ff. i-iii, 72, and 75 are modern paper flyleaves; ff. 73-74 contain Burney's list of contents, on paper; Burney pagination throughout in ink, now crossed out.
Collation: i-viii8 (ff. 1-64), ix8-1 (last leaf missing; ff. 65-71).
Script: Humanistic, written above top line.
Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of light brown leather; marbled endpapers; the edges of the leaves gilt.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northeastern Italy, (?Ferrara)
Provenance:
Jonathan Toup (b. 1713 d. 1785), classical scholar and Church of England clergyman: his sale, 10 May 1786, lot 1250, bought by Mason for £1 4s.
George Mason (b. 1735, d. 1806), writer and book collector: his sale, part I, 24 January 1798, lot 356, unsold; part II, 16 May 1798, lot 355, bought by Combe (perhaps Charles Combe, Charles (b. 1743, d. 1817), physician and numismatist).
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.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 291 (p. 20).
James L. Butrica, The Manuscript Tradition of Propertius, Phoenix, Supplementary volume 17 (Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1984), pp. 166-7, no. 55 (pp. 245-6), and Appendix 1 and 3.
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. 134.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beroaldo, Filippo, professor at the University of Bologna, 1453-1505,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51797072
Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Mason, George, writer and book collector; of Aldenham Lodge, county Hertfordshire, 1735-1806
Propertius, Sextus, 45 BC-15 BC
Salius Faventinus, Hieronymus, humanist scholar and editor, d 1509,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/299766988
Toup, Jonathan, classical scholar and Church of England clergyman, 1713-1785,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12654832 - 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:
‘Membranaceus, in 8vo. minori, pp. 141, sec. xv. exeuntis ; nitidissime exaratus.
Sexti Aurelii Propertii Carminum libri quatuor. p. 1. In fine,
a. Philippi Beroaldi versus sex et triginta in Commentariis Propertii, ad Minum Roscium inscripti. p. 139. Impress. prope finem Beroaldi opusculorum, Bonon. 1500.
b. Hieronymi Salii Faventini ad invidum carmen, versibus viginti elegiacis. p. 140. Incip. “Invide, quid laceras facundi scripta Philippi? Quid laceras tantum, livide turpis, opus?”’