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Burney MS 268
- Record Id:
- 040-002237149
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00013c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 268
- Title:
- Poems of Tibullus, Lygdamus and Sulpicia (Corpus Tibullianum)
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-53v: Corpus Tibullianum containing the elegies of Tibull in 2 books (ff. 1-34v) and parts of the Appendix Tibulliana (ff. 34v-53 book 3 and f. 53v Priapic Poem 1).
ff. 54-55: An Italian Sonetto Caudato containing a dialogue between body and soul (Inc. 'Spirto mio car: che speculando miri' Expl. ' E come e quando godi o senti omey') followed by a commentary in Latin (Inc. 'Notandum est quod corpus hic presupponit/ Expl. (fragm.) 'cuius esse est permanens').
ff. 56-57: Burney's list of contents.
Decoration: Simple red initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237149 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 268 : Poems of Tibullus, Lygdamus and Sulpicia (Corpus Tibullianum) - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0263]/040-002237149
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper.
Dimensions: 210 x 140 mm (text space 120 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. 57 (with 2 unfoliated modern flyeleaves at the beginning and 4 unfoliated original and 3 modern flyeaves at the end of the volume).
Script: Southern textualis (Rotunda).
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy (?).
Provenance:
Collection of the humanist scholar Achilles Statius (b. 1524, d. 1582). cf. Ullman (1973), pp. 440-45.
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. 68.
G. Fanchiotti, I Mss. Italiani in Inghilterra, vol. 2 (London: Officio di Paleografia Italiana, 1899), num. ii.
L. Piccioni, '[Review of Fanchiotti, I mss italiani in Inghilterra]', Rassegna Critica della Letteratura Italiana, 4. (1899), pp. 98-103 (p. 101)
P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.
B. L. Ullman, 'Achilles Statius' Manuscripts of Tibullus', Studies in the Italian Renaissance, 2d ed. (Rome: Edizioni di Storia e Lettartura, 1973), pp. 429-49 (pp. 440-45).
M. D. Reeve and R. H. Rouse, 'Priapea', in L. D. Reynolds (ed.), Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, (Oxford: Clarendon, 1983), pp. 322-23 (p. 323. n. 3.).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Statius, Achilles
Tibullus, Albius, Latin poet, c 55-19 BC - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Burney MS 225