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Burney MS 251

Record Id:

040-002237132

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00012b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 251

Title:

Philosophical Miscellany

Scope & Content:

A collection of popular works on moral philosophy from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

ff. 1r-9r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, De clementia, beginning 'Scribere de clementia, Nero Caesar, institui.' ending '…in rectum prava flectantur.' (printed (Lucius Annaeus Seneca De clementia libri duo, edited by Ermanno Malaspina, (De Gruyter: 2017), pp. 1-42.)

ff. 9v-10v: Ps.-Seneca (Publilius Syrus), Proverbia, beginning 'Alienum est omne quicquid…' ending '…in turpitudinem nostran reditura' (printed Publilii Syri Sententiae, edited byR. Bickford Smith, (London 1895), pp. 1-42.)

ff. 10v-13v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul the Apostle: Epistles 1-14 with prologue taken from Jerome’s De viris illusrtibus on Seneca (printed Claude W. Barlow, Martini episcopi Braracensis opera omnia, (New Haven: Yale University Press, 1950), pp. 123-138.)

f. 13v: Epitaphium Senecae, Begins. “Cura labor meritum sumpti pro munere honores…” (=Anthologia Latina 667 printed in Gli epigrammi attribuiti a L. Anneo Seneca, ed. by Carlo Prato, (Rome, 1964), p. 62. Num 71.)

ff. 13v- 17r: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Epistles to Lucilius, (Book1 Epistle 1-2), beginning 'Ita fac, mi Lucili ; vindica te tibi…' ending '…divitiae insolentiam.'

ff. 17r-21v: Ps.-Seneca (=Martin of Braga), Formula honestae vitae, Imperfect, beginning 'Quatuor virtutum species…' ending '…immensurata perducet' (printed in Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam quae vocantur, ed. by C. W. Barlow,(American Academy in Rome, 1938), pp. 236-248, cf. CPL 1080).

ff. 22-93v: Bernard of Utrecht, Commentum in Theodolum, Prologue 'Dilectissimo domino suo sacerdoti Traiectensis sedis episcopo Cunrado...' (f. 22.); Introduction. 'Liber aequivoce dicitur, nam liber appellatur...'. Text 'Theodolus: Ethiopum terras iam feruida torruit aestas.'Commentary: 'Tres Ethiopias esse aiunt qui de terrae situ scribunt...' ending '…Theodolum prudenter tacuisse' (printed in Huygens (1977), pp. 22-136.)

f. 93v: Note on numbers. beginning 'Septem principales numeri sunt et sex medii'

Decoration: 1 large zoomorphic initial in red, green, silver, and gold (f. 1). 4 large foliate initials (ff. 6v, 17, 25v, 64v), and simpler initials, in red, green, and pale yellow. Decorated run-over marks.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237132

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 251 : Philosophical Miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0246]/040-002237132

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

2nd half of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 155 x 100 mm (text space 115 x 65 mm in one column).

Foliation: ff. v + 98 (ff. i-v, 94-98 are paper flyleaves).

Script: Protogothic. Several hands

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney(?) binding of blind-tooled polished calf; marbled endpapers, c.1800; the joints repaired 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Unidentified reader, 13th century: ‘Explicit liber t(er)cius quo t(er)minatur hoc opus Amen.’ (f. 93v).

The Celestine monastery of Ste-Croix d’Offémont, near Belfort, eastern France, by 1458: ‘Iste liber est m(on)asterij s(an)c(t)e crucis / p(ro)pe offemontem Ordini celestinorum / de bonis d(omi)ni Roberti [benef…?] quondam / […]ti de p[…]quy A(n)i(m)a [eius?] requiescat(?) in pace. Amen. Anno do(min)i mo iiijo lviijo’ (f. 93v, erased up to ‘Amen’); cf. another more thoroughly erased inscription of similar date (f. 1).

Unidentified owner: in the anonymous Catalogue of a Very Valuable Assemblage of MSS … Lately Collected by a Gentleman on the Continent, 20 May 1815, lot 45, bought by Burney for £1.

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. 65.

Francesco Giancotti, Ricerche sulla tradizione manoscritta delle Sentenze di Publilio Siro, Biblioteca di cultura contemporanea, 79 (Messina: D’Anna, 1963), p. 104.

R. B. C. Huygens, Accessus ad auctores, Bernard d'Utrecht, Conrad d'Hirsau: Dialogus super auctores (Leiden: Brill, 1970), pp. 3-4, 18 (this manuscript as 'B').

Betty Nye Quinn, “Ps. Theodolus”, in Catalogus Translationum et Commentariorum II (1971), pp. 383-408 (p. 388).

Giancarlo Mazzoli, “Ricerche sulla tradizione medievale del «De beneficiis» e del «De clementia» di Seneca III Storia della tradizione manoscritta”, Bollettino dei Classici 3 (1982), 165-223 (p. 219.: manuscript γ of the recension).

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:

Annacus Seneca, Lucius/Marcus, also known as Seneca the Elder, 54 BC-39
Martin of Braga, Saint, Bishop of Dumium and Archbishop of Braga, c 520-580
Pseudo-Seneca,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000446442218,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39386650