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Burney MS 270
- Record Id:
- 040-002237151
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00013e
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 270
- Title:
- Virgil, Aeneid, with prologue, and arguments.
- Scope & Content:
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An elegant humanist copy of Virgil's Aeneid, with prologue, and most Argumenta by Pseudo-Virgil, Pseudo-Ovid.
Decoration:
A full border, decorated with foliate interlace and arms (f. 1r). 11 partial borders of white vine-stem with gold balls (ff. 15r, 30r, 43v, 57r, 73v, 90v, 106r, 119v, 135r, 152r, and 168r) at the beginning of the other books. Gold white vine-stem initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237151 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 270 : Virgil, Aeneid, with prologue, and arguments. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0265]/040-002237151
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- One volume.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1450
- End Date:
- 1474
- Date Range:
- 3rd quarter of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Letter of introduction required to view this manuscript
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 265 x 165 mm (text space 175 x 85 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 189 (ff. i and 189 are paper flyleaves; ff. ii, iii and 186-188 are parchment flyleaves; ff. 186-188 part of the last gathering).
Script: Humanistic. Scribe: Andrea da Firenze.
Binding: Post-1600. Tooled brown polished calf, rebacked; tooled gilt edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Rome).
Provenance:
Written by Andrea da Firenze for a member of the Strozzi family: their arms (f. 1r), identified in unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.
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:
- Italy, Central (Rome).
- 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=6686&CollID=18&NStart=270].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 68-69.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 294.
R. D. Williams and T. S. Pattie Virgil. His Poetry through the Ages (London: British Library, 1982), pp. 79-80; no. 33, p. 130, the second plate (no page number).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Firenze, Andrea, scribe, fl 15th century
Strozzi, Family
Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667