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Burney MS 260
- Record Id:
- 040-002237141
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000134
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 260
- Title:
- Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-130v: Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, de vita Caesarum (Book 3 on Claudius is mislabeled as Claudius).
f. 130v: Decimus Magnus Ausonius: De duodecim caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis. 3. Inc. 'Julius ut perhibent divus triateride regnat'. Expl. 'Quindecies saevis potitur dum frater habenis'.
f. 130v: Decimus Magnus Ausonius: De duodecim caesaribus per Suetonium Tranquillum scriptis. 4. (with first 3 verses missing) Inc. 'Exegit poenas de Caesare' Expl. 'iusta piacula fratrem'.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237141 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 260 : Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, De vita Caesarum - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0255]/040-002237141
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 2nd half of 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
- Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 340 x 230 mm (text space 245 x 155 mm in two columns).
Foliation: ff. 131 (with 1 unfoliated flyleaf at the beginning and 3 between ff. 130-131 and f. 131 stub with Burney's table of contents.). Burney's pagination on upper right hand corner of leaves.
Script: Gothic cursive with space left blank for Greek which a later hand occasionally supplies (f. 24). Marginal notes in humanist cursive hand on ff. 1-18.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy(?)
Provenance: 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.
- 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. 66.
L. Preud'homme, “Troisième étude sur l’histoire du texte de Suétone, de vita Caesarum.” In Mémoires couronnés et autres mémoires publiés par L’Académie royale des sciences, des lettres et des beaux-arts de Belgique. 63 (1904), pp. 3-94 (p. 77).
R. A. Katser, Studies on the Text of Suetonius' “De vita Caesarum, (Oxford: University Press, 2016), p. 271.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)