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Burney MS 252

Record Id:

040-002237133

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00012c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 252

Title:

Selected works of Seneca inLatin and Catalan.

Scope & Content:

A collection of authenticand spurious works by Seneca in Latin original and in Catalan translation.

Contents:

ff. 1-4v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14.

ff. 4v-8v: Correspondence of Seneca and St Paul theApostle: Epistles 1-14 in Catalan.

f. 9: Jerome, On Seneca, = Chapter 12 of Jerome’s De viris illustribus.

ff. 9r-226r: LuciusAnnaeus Seneca, Epistles to LuciliusBooks 1-13 in Latin with glossesfollowed by a Catalan translation. ('Comensala primera Epistola de Senecca a Lucii en Romans: ço es lo prolech e introduccio del primer libre, quehorn deu retenjr e cullir lo fugiment del temps, e que aquell no es pobre a qui abasta pocha cosa, eque hom deu diligentment gardar lo temps, lo qual se pert en tres maneres.' begins (f. 10r. 'Axi fes, mon amich Lucii, regoncixtu en tu matex, e regoncix e guarda lo temps, qui ça entras te ere tolc, o furtat, o tescampariaper sa follia.'

Decoration: Large puzzle initials in blue and red, with redand purple pen-flourishing (ff. 1, 4v, etc.). Small initials in blue with redpen-flourishing, or red with purple pen-flourishing. Paraphs in plain blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237133

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 252 : Selected works of Seneca in__NEWLINE__Latin and Catalan.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0247]/040-002237133

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Catalan
Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

last quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space 145 x 85 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. ii + 234 + 8*, 8**, 8*** (ff. i-ii and 227-234 are original paperflyleaves).

Script: Semi-humanistic

Binding: Post-1600. Pre-Burney binding of blind-stamped red velvet overpaper-covered pasteboards.

Custodial History:

Origin:Spain.

Provenance:

Charles Burney (b. 1757,d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.Acquired by the British Museum as part ofBurney’s library from his son Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for thismanuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1531&CollID=18&NStart=252

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscriptsin The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, partII: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 65.

Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta, 2 vols (In Abbatia Sancti Petri Steenbrugis,1969), p. 441.

Mario Eusebi, “La piùantica traduzione francese delle Lettere morali di Seneca e i suoi derivati”, Romania 91 (1970), 1-47 (pp. 40-7).

Seneca: unavicenda testuale, ed. by Teresa De Robertis and Gianvito Resta, (Firenze : Mandragora, 2004), p. 69.

Tomàs Martínez Romero, “Unatraducció catalana medieval de les Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli adSenecam”, Estudis Romànics, 29(2007),143-57.

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
Pseudo-Seneca,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000446442218,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/39386650