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Burney MS 267

Record Id:

040-002237148

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00013b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 267

Title:

Aelius Donatus, Commentaries on the Comedies of Terence.

Scope & Content:

ff.1-2: Caius Suetonius Tranquillus, Vita Terentii. Inc. 'Publius Terentius Afer Karthagine natus servivit Romae' Expl. 'saepe exclusa vix acta est'.

ff. 2-4: Evanthius, De fabula. Inc. 'Initium tragoediae et comoediae a rebus divinis est' Expl. 'cognitione gestorum'.ff. 4-5v: Aelius Donatus, Excerpta de Comoedia. Inc. 'Comoediaest fabula diversa' Expl. 'gravitates denuntiabantur'.

ff. 5v-47v: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Andriae Terentii with preface (ff. 5v-6), argumentum (ff. 6-7). Inc. 'Poeta cum primum animum' Expl. 'quod Charinus roget'.

ff. 48-99v: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Eunuci Terentii with preface (ff. 48-48v), argumentum (ff. 48v-49). Inc. 'Haec masculini generis' Expl. 'temporis ad agendum'.

ff. 99v-148: Aelius Donatus: Commentum Adelphous Terentii with preface (ff. 99v-100), argumentum (ff. 100-100v). Inc. 'Storax non rediit' Expl. 'te isti facilem et festivum putant'.

ff. 148-187: Aelius Donatus, Commentum Hecyrae, with preface (ff. 148-148v), argumentum (ff. 148v-149). Inc. 'Hecyra est huic nomen fabulae' Expl. 'imprudenti scientem addidit(!) non prudentem'.

ff. 187-219: Aelius Donati, Commentum Phormionis with preface (ff. 187-187v), argumentum (ff. 187v-188). Inc. 'Postquam poeta vetus poetam non potest Hanc comoediam manifestum est' Expl. 'uxoris iracundiam'.

f. 220v: 2 Distichs: Matribus egregiis fueram prestancior olim, / Et decus eximium jam mea forma tulit, / Laeta fui caro talamis conjunta Rodulpho / Et cui feminea pignora bina dedi. (Walther (1969). num. 10777)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237148

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 267 : Aelius Donatus, Commentaries on the Comedies of Terence.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0262]/040-002237148

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1500

End Date:

1540

Date Range:

Early 16th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper with watermark closest to Briquet 3393 (Florence 1503-1507).

Dimensions: 335 x 220 mm (text space 230 x 135 mm).

Foliation: ff. 221 (with 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, 1 between ff. 219-220 and 3 between ff. 220-221, f. 221 is a stub with Burney's list of contents).

Script: Humanist cursive with space left blank for Greek texts. Occasional marginal notes from a later humanistic hand and Burney's identifications of textual units.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

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:

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. 68.

P. Wessner (ed.), Aeli Donati qvod fertvr Commentvm Terenti, vol.1. (Lipsiae: B. G. Teubner, 1902), p. xix.

H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum Medii Aevi posterioris Latinorum: Alphabetisches Verzeichnis der Versanfänge mittellateinischer Dichtungen, 1. (Vandenhoeck u. Ruprecht, 1969), p. 549, no. 10777.

G. Cupaiuolo (ed.), Evanzio De fabula (Napoli : SEN, 1979), p. 93.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Donatus, Aelius, grammarian and teacher, 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121282471
Euanthius, commentator on Terence, 4th century
Terentius Afer, Publius, 195 BC-159 BC