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Burney MS 258
- Record Id:
- 040-002237139
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000132
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 258
- Title:
- Statius, Thebaid, with gloss, accessus, and anonymous vita
- Scope & Content:
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Statius, Thebaid, with gloss, accessus, and anonymous vita.
Decoration:
Simple red initials at the beginning of books. Initial capitals sometimes highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237139 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 258 : Statius, Thebaid, with gloss, accessus, and anonymous vita - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0253]/040-002237139
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 245 x 130 mm (text space 205 x 70 mm).
Foliation: ff. 112 (f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf; f. 112 is a paper flyleaf).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1952.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England or France.
Provenance:
Partly erased contemporary monastic inscription (f. 3r).
Inscribed in different hands in ink with possible shelfmarks ‘52’ and ‘54’ (f. 1r).
Jean Baptiste Maugerard (d. 1814) (signed ‘Maugerard’ , f. 3v, perhaps as an attribution rather than a note of possession).
? Charles-Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (b. 1754 d. 1838): his sale, London, 8 May 1816, lot 3439, bought by Burney for £6 6s.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- England or France.
- Information About Copies:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1550&CollID=18&NStart=258].
- Publications:
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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. 67.
J. Boussard, ‘Le classement des manuscrits de la Thébaïde de Stace’, Revue des études latines, 30 (1952), 220-251 (p. 225).
Paul M. Clogan, ‘Medieval Glossed Manuscripts of the Thebaid’, Manuscripta, 11 (1967), 102-112 (pp. 106-107).
Paul M. Clogan, ‘The Manuscripts of Lactantius Pacidus' Commentary on the Thebaid’, Scriptorium, 22 (1968), 87-91 (pp. 89-90).
R. D. Sweeney, Prolegomena to an edition of the scholia to Statius, Mnemosyne Supplements, 8 (Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1969), p. 19.
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 2 vols (Paris: Éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-85), II, 541, no. C. 49.
David Anderson, ‘Boccaccio's Glosses on Statius’, Studi Sul Boccaccio, 22 (Florence: [n. pub.], 1994), 3-134 (pp. 1 n. 59, 124).
Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, pp. 196-97, no. 297; III, pp, 2, 6, 9, 10, 11.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Maugerard, Jean Baptiste, Dom. librarian to Cardinal Montmorency
Périgord, Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-, Prince of Benevento, 1754-1838
Statius Papinius, Publius, c 45-c 96,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000118566297,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100904338