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Burney MS 255

Record Id:

040-002237136

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00012f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 255

Title:

Humanistic miscellany.

Scope & Content:

A humanistic collectionof texts relating to Roman history.

Contents:

ff. 1r-11r: RufiusFestus, Breviarium rerum gestarum populiRomani, begins ‘Ruffi Sexti viriconsularis rerum gestarum populi Romani, Valentiniano Augusto, liber incipitfeliciter.: Pio perpetui domino Velntiniano imperatori et semper augusto…”, ends ‘…gloriosissime principumValentiane Auguste.” (printed in The Breviarium of Festus, ed. by J. W. Eadie (London: Athlone, 1967), pp. 45-69.)

f. 11v: Narrative of the Feast of Lucullus in Italianwritten in a later hand

ff. 12r-16: Curiositiesof Rome (Curiosum Urbis Romae regionumxiiii cum breviariis suis), begins ‘Regioprima, porta Capena, continent aedem Honoris….’, ends ‘…mensae oleariae per totam urbem II CCC.’ (as printed in Karl Ludwig von Urlichs, Codex urbis Romae topographicus, (Wuerzburg: Stahel, 1871), pp. 2-27. ).

ff. 16r-16v: List ofhistorians who wrote biographies of Roman Emperors, begins ‘Vitam Helii Hadriani scripsit Elius Spartianus….’, ends ‘Flavius Syracusanus.’

Decoration: 1 white vine initial in colours and gold (f. 1r), small initials alternately in plain red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237136

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 255 : Humanistic miscellany.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0250]/040-002237136

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1450

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

2nd half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 235 x 150 mm (text space 160 x 95 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. ii + 19 (ff. i-ii and 18-19 are flyleaves). Erased foliations suggestthat this manuscript was once part of a longer volume; f. 11v is dirtied, suggestingthat it was formerly the last leaf in a volume; ff. 12-17 are an addition.

Collation: i12-1 (12thleaf missing, probably blank; ff. 1-11); ii6 (ff. 12-17).

Script: Humanistic, written ‘below top line’.

Binding: Post-1600. Askew binding of red morocco, with his typical 'palmette andfleur-de-lys' gilt roll, marbled endpapers and parchment flyleaves.

Custodial History:

Origin:Italy, Central (Florence).

Provenance:

Unidentified Italianowner, 17th century?: inscribed in Italian (f. 17).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physicianand book collector: his sale 7 March 1785, lot 519, bought by Wodhull for 18s.

Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), bookcollector and poet: inscribed by him ‘Apr. 15th 1785’ facing the end of thetext, where he usually records the date on which he finished reading a book (f.17); his anonymous sale, 3 March 1801, lot 807, bought by Combe for 8s. 6d.(perhaps Charles Combe (b. 1743, d. 1817), physician and numismatist).

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=1541&CollID=18&NStart=255

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. 66.

GiuseppeFanchiotti, I Mss. Italiani in Inghilterra, 3 vols (London: Officiodi Paleografia Italiana, 1899-1902), II (1899), 12.

A. C. de la Mare, 'New Research on HumanisticScribes in Florence', in Minatura fiorentina del rinascimento,1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed. by A. Garzelli and A. C. de la Mare,Inventari e cataloghi toscani, 18-19, 2 vols ([Florence]: Giunta regionaletoscana, 1985), I, 395-421 (p. 492 no. 10).

Exhibitions:

Writing: Making Your Mark, British Library, 26 April 2019 - 27 August 2019

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Festus, Roman historian and proconsul, fl 4th century
Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082193889,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/38088759