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Burney MS 256

Record Id:

040-002237137

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000130

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 256

Title:

Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium.

Scope & Content:

A 12^th-centurycopy of Solius’s famous work on miracles of the world.

Contents:

ff. 1r-57v: Caius JuliusSolinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium (A Collection of Miraculous Things),with preface and prologue. (as printed in Mommsen (1895), pp. 1-216.)

f. 57v: Anonymous Poem: 'Quem studiitaedet studio dum congruit hora /Se lacrimis laedet recolens neglecta p[ rimo ]ra . / Verbera doctorum purgantmores puerorum. / Sese substernit vitiis qui verbera spernit . / Nunc studiumcapta dum mens est mollis et apta, / Ne senio gelidus fueris male tu tibi fidus./ Nunquam prandetur male cum probus hospes habetur.'

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
040-002237137

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 256 : Solinus, Collectanea Rerum Mirabilium.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0251]/040-002237137

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1124

Date Range:

1st quarter of the 12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Dimensions: 255 x 170 mm (text space 185 x 120 mm varying).

Foliation: ff. ii + 60 (ff. i-ii, 58-60 are flyleaves, ff. i, 60 are paper).

Collation: i-vi8 (ff.1-48), vii8+1 (ff. 49-57, last leaf inserted).

Script: Protogothic. Hand of “Althmannus” who signed it on f. 57v.

Binding: BM/BL in-house.

Custodial History:

Origin:Germany.

Provenance:

Signed by one of thescribes: 'Explicit liber Gai. Iulii. Solini. Grammatici. polihistor ab ipsoeditus et recognitus. de situ orbis terrarum et singulis mirabilibus que inmundo habentur. / Althmannus' (f. 57v).James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collectorand bookseller: his sale, 5 April 1815 lot 318 (described as bound in morocco),bought by Payne for £5.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=1549&CollID=18&NStart=256

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.

C. Iulii Solini:Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. by Th. Mommsen (Berlin: Weidmann, 1895), p. xxxviii no. 40.

Mary Ella Milham, 'A Handlist of the Manuscriptsof C. Julius Solinus', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des étudesrelative aux manuscrits, 37 (1983), 126-29 (p. 127).

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteursclassiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre nationalde la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), 498 (C. 34).

Willene B. Clark, A Medieval Book of Beasts: The Second-familyBestiary : Commentary, Art, Text and Translation, (Woodbridge: Boydell Press,2006), pp. 29; 105, 265.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Edwards, James, bookseller of London, 1756-1816
Julius Solinus, Gaius, fl 3rd century ,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000083818625,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/51672454