Burney MS 254

A typical humanistic collectionof texts relating to classical ideas of education of the youth.

Contents:

ff. 1r-11v: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viri consularis rerumgestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipit feliciter.: Pioperpetui domino Velntiniano imperatori et semper augusto…’ ends ‘…palma pacis accedat.Explicit breviarium Rufi Festi viri consularis gloriossime proncipumValentiniane Auguste.’ (printed in J. W. Eadie, The Breviarium of Festus, (London: Athlone, 1967), pp. 45-69.)

ff. 12r-29r: Ps.-Plutarch,On edication of Children (= MoraliaI. 1a-86a) in the Latin translationof Guarino da Verona, with a prologue to Angelo Corbinelli, begins ‘Maiores nostrosAngele mi suavissime…’ Text (f. 13r), begins ‘Quidnam est quod de ingenuorum educationeliberorum quispiam dicere posset…’ ends ‘…posse constat ingenio. ExplicitPlutarcus de liberis edicandis.’ (printed in Sabbadini (1915), pp. 15-6(prologue only) and for the text: Plutarchus, De liberis educandis, [Cologne: Arnold Ther Hoernen, about 1473],ff. 1-16v.)

ff. 29v-41r: St Basil of Caesarea,On Reading Ancient Literature to theYouth in the Latin translation of Leonardo Bruni, with his prologue to ColuccioSalutati. (printed in Ваsilio di Cesarea, Discorso ai giovani: Оratio ad adolescents con la versione latina di Leonardo Bruni, e. by Mario Naldini, (Firenze: Nardini, 1984), pp. 230-48. Cf. Clavis Patrum Graecorum, number 2847).

ff. 41r: Verses fromHesiod in Latin translation by Guarino da Verona, begins ‘Parvula si tentes…’ Excerptedfrom Guarino’s De ordine docendi acstudendi (printed in Luigi Piacente, BattistaGuarini La didattica del greco e del latino: De ordine docendi ac studendi ealtri, scritti, (Bari: Edipuglia, 2012), p. 64.)

ff. 41-43v: Ps.-Jerome, Epistola dehonorandis parentibus, begins ‘Parentum meritis subiugans…’ ends ‘cumfratribus a Domino coram angelis coronatur. Explicit epistola (as printed in Patrologia Latina, vol. 30,145-147, cf. Clavis Patrum Latinorum, number 765).

ff. 43v Anonymous lettermentioning the death and miracles of Bernardino of Siena, begins ‘Allatum est nuntium hanc in urbemfratrem Bernardinum Aquilae periisse die celeberrimo ascensionis…’ ends ‘…ExNeapoli octavo kalendas iunias1444’ (cf. Bertalot (1990), p.55. Number 45)

Decoration: A few small initials in pale red or blue.