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Burney MS 246

Record Id:

040-002237127

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000126

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 246

Title:

Sedulius, Carmen paschale; Turcius Rufus Asterius, note and poem

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 1r-3r: Sedulius (fl. 450), Epistula ad Macedonium (Letter to Macedonius), beginning: 'Priusquam me venerabilis pater'.

f. 3r: Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius (fl. 494), note on the revision of Sedulius's work, followed by short poem, the latter beginning: ‘Sume sacer meritis veracis dicta poete’.

ff. 3v-28r: Sedulius, Carmen paschale (Easter Song), books 1-5, with extensive glossing interlinearly and in the margins.

ff. 28r-29v: Sedulius, Elegia (Elegy), beginning: ‘Cantemus socii domino cantemus honorem’.

Decoration:

Simple red or green initials, some also decorated with the contrasting colour around the letter forms. Faded headings in red throughout.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237127

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 246 : Sedulius, Carmen paschale; Turcius Rufus Asterius, note and poem

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0241]/040-002237127

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1174

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 120 mm (text space 175 x 65 mm).

Foliation: ff. xv + 42; ff. i-xv, 30-42 are modern paper flyleaves; Burney pagination in black ink, now crossed out; f. 42r has a Burney index; ff. iv-xv, 30-39 are seemingly leaves of Burney’s notepaper, with various watermarks dated from 1799-1805 and including ‘I Furness & Co / 1803’ and ‘E&P / 1805’.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Light brown blind-tooled Burney binding of polished leather; spine re-backed at the British Museum.

Custodial History:

Origin: England or France.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Thame, Oxfordshire, founded in 1137: this manuscripts was formerly part of a single manuscript, written between the middle and the second half of the 12th century, now bound in six separate parts (Burney MS 285, Burney MS 295, Burney MS 341, Burney MS 344, and Burney MS 357), and the ownership inscription of that original manuscript is now in Burney MS 357: ‘Liber sancte marie de Thama’ (Burney MS 357, f. 24v) (see Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, ed. by N. R. Ker (1964), p. 104, 188).

William Forrest (fl. 1530–1576), Catholic priest and poet: was the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, 1556-1576, his ownership inscription: ‘liber Guilielmi Forresti’ (now in Burney MS 357, f. 24r).

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. 64.

N. R. Ker, ‘Membra Disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly 12 (1938), 130-35 (pp. 134-35).

Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd edn, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1964), pp. 104, 188.

David N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain, Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1992) pp. 132-33.

Carl P. E. Springer, The Manuscripts of Sedulius: A Provisional Handlist, Transactions of the American Philosophical Society, vol. 85, Part 5 (Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1995), p. 61.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burney, Charles, classical scholar, 1757-1817
Forrest, William, poet, fl. 1530-1576
Sedulius, fl 450,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000080979589,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/18636329
Turcius Rufius Apronianus Asterius, consul of Rome, fl 494,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000032283501,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/1361583

Places:

Thame, Oxfordshire

Related Material:

Formerly part of a single manuscript that is now bound in six separate parts: Burney MS 246 (this manuscript), Burney MS 285, Burney MS 295, Burney MS 341, Burney MS 344, and Burney MS 357; the 12th-century table of contents, as well as ownership inscription, is now in Burney MS 357 (f. 24v): ‘Liber sancte marie de Thama’ (see 'Membra Disiecta' (1938), p. 134).

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. 64:

‘Codex membranaceus, in folio minori, pp. 58, sec. XIII.

1. Cœlii Sedulii Carmen Paschale in quinque libros distinctum, et notis plurimis glossisque instructum. p. 6.

a. Sedulii Dedicatio Carminis Paschalis ad Macedonium. p. 1. b. Nota de Turcio Rufino Asterio, qui carmina Sedulii collegit. p. 5. c. Ejusdem Turcii Rufini Asterii Epigramma, sive dedicatio Carminum Sedulii. p. 5.

2. Ejusdem Cœlii Sedulii Elegia. p. 55.’

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 285
Burney MS 295
Burney MS 341