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Burney MS 245

Record Id:

040-002237126

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000125

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 245

Title:

C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Jugurthinum, Bellum Catilinae

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-54r: C. Sallustius Crispus (b. 86 BC, d. c. 35 BC), Bellum Jugurthinum (The Jugurthine War).

ff. 55r-81v: C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Catilinae (Catiline's War).

[f. 54v is blank].

Decoration:

2 large white vine initials, in colours and gold on blue ground at the start of each text (ff. 1r, 55r). Heraldic arms within a wreath, in colours and gold (f. 1r). 1 large map of the world in ink (f. 9v). Small initials in plain blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237126

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 245 : C. Sallustius Crispus, Bellum Jugurthinum, Bellum Catilinae

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0240]/040-002237126

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1477

End Date:

1477

Date Range:

1477

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 144 mm (text space 150 x 80 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 82; f. i is a medieval parchment flyleaf; f. i and the front pastedown are parts of an Italian document written in Latin containing the date April 1472; f. 82 is a modern paper leaf stuck to the back pastedown, containing a Burney index; 18th-century foliation in black ink ff. 1-80, omitting f. 46.

Collation: i-v¹⁰ (ff. 1-50), vi⁴ (ff. 51-54), vii-viii⁸ (ff. 55-70), ix¹² (ff. 71-81 + the back pastedown).

Script: Humanistic.

Binding: Pre-1600. Brown leather over wooden boards, each cover blind-stamped with interlace borders, and in the centre panel a cruciform ornament of interlace cable-work designs with four flies; c.1477. Traces of centre-pieces, corner-pieces, and clasps, all missing. Inscribed on the lower edge of the leaves: ‘C. Salustius’.

Custodial History:

Origin: Fabriano, Central Italy.

Provenance:

Fabriano, 1477: scribal colophon: 'Finis Catalinarii in fabriano completi die xxii februarii MccccLxxvii. RR', and below, in red: 'Hii duo libri in uno volumine compositi sunt' [followed by an erasure] (f. 81v).

Unidentified owner, 3rd quarter of the 15th century: their arms, gules, a phoenix argent, in chief or, an eye(?) argent (f. 1r), with erasures to each side of the arms; most likely also the owner of Burney MS 142 (see arms and initials ‘V B’, f. 1r) and Burney MS 168 (see arms and initials ‘V B’, f. 1r).

Unidentified owner: oval library stamp, erased (f. 1r).

Unidentified English owner, 18th century: inscribed with a price ‘£1-5-0’ (f. 81v, top right) by the same hand as in Burney MS 142, Burney MS 150, Burney MS 165, Burney MS 168, Burney MS 177, Burney MS 208, among others.

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.

W. H. James Weale and Lawrence Taylor, Early Stamped Bookbindings in the British Museum (London: British Museum, 1922), no. 385 (p. 171).

Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I: The Text, no. 507 (p. 98), II: The Plates, pls. 799a-b.

Albert Derolez, Codicologie des manuscrits en écriture humanistique sur parchemin, Bibliologia: Elementa ad Librorum Studia Pertinentia, 6-7 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1984), no. 366.

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. 133.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Sallustius Crispus, Caius, 86BC-c 35BC

Places:

Fabriano, Italy

Related Material:

Same unidentified owner as Burney MS 142 and Burney MS 168: these two manuscripts have the same arms (gules, a phoenix argent, in chief or, an eye(?) argent) and the initials ‘V B’ (see Burney MS 142, f. 1r; Burney MS 168, f. 1r).

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., ff. 80, anno 1477 descriptus ; elegans.

1. C. Sallustii Crispi Bellum Jugurthinum, glossis instructum. fol. 1. Tit. “Liber Crispi Salustii de bello gesto a populo Romano cum Jugurta rege Numidarum.”

2. Ejusdem Bellum Catilinarium. fol. 54. Tit. “Liber Crispi Salustii de conjuracione Catiline.”

In calce, “Finis Catilinarii in Fabriano completi die xxii. Februarii, m.cccc.lxxvii.”’