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Burney MS 269

Record Id:

040-002237150

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00013d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 269

Title:

Virgil, Aeneid.

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-120v: Virgil, The Aeneid, mutilated both at the beginning and the end containing Book I. 82 - Book XII. 895. with verse arguments for each book. beginning 'Impulit in latus: ac venti, velut agmine facto (I. 82). ending'dicta, ferox; di me terrent et Iuppiter hostis' (XII. 895). Accompanied by interlinear and marginal glosses from at least three hands of grammatical and lexical content.f. 121r: Burney's table of contents.Decoration: Red initials, occasionally flourished and decorated (human face: 87v). Titles in green and red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237150

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 269 : Virgil, Aeneid.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0264]/040-002237150

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 227 x 125 mm (text space 174 x 67 mm in one column).

Foliation: ff. 121 (with 11 unfoliated modern paper and 2 modern parchment flyleaves at the beginning and 2 unfoliated modern parchment and 10 paper flyleaves at the end of the volume).

Collation: ii-xii¹²1 f. is lost at the beginning,1 f at the end and another one between ff. 6-7.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf backed in 1986.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

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.

Tom Pattie, 'Latin Manuscripts of Vergil in the British Library', in: R.D. Williams and T.S. Pattie, Virgil: His Poetry Through the Ages, (London : British Library, c1982), pp. 125-38. (130. num. 32.).

Giancarlo Alessio 'Tradizione Manoscritta', in Enciclopedia Virgiliana III (Roma: Istituto della Enciclopedia Italiana, 1987) pp. 432–43: no. 371.

Christopher Baswell, Virgil in medieval England: Figuring the Aeneid from the Twelfth Century to Chaucer, (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1995). pp. 299-300. num 20.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667