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Burney MS 272

Record Id:

040-002237153

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000140

LARK:

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 272

Title:

Poetic works of Virgil and other Late Roman poets.

Scope & Content:

Alate-15^th-century selection of poetical works by Virgil followed byLate Roman poems attributed to Virgil with marginal illustrations.

Contents:

f.2v: Charter in German, of Lewis, Abbot of Melk, granting to Eberhart derTollingevpart of certain tithes of corn and wine. Dat. St. George's day, 1399.

ff.3r-17v: Virgil, Eclogues 1-10. (Aspublished in R. A. B. Mynors, P. VergiliMaronis opera, (Oxford, 1969) pp. 1-28.).

ff.18r-57v: Virgil, Georgics. With the Pseudo-Ovidian arguments before eachbook (As published in R. A. B. Mynors, P.Vergili Maronis opera, (Oxford, 1969) pp. 29-101.

f.58r-206v: Virgil, Aeneid, with thePseduo-Ovidian arguments preceding each book. Imperfect, lacking Book iv:1-41,266-32, ending at Book xii: 300.

ff.207r-208v: Psuedo-Virgil, The Salad (Moretum). Beginning ‘Iam nox hibernas bisquinque peregerat horas…’

ff.208v-209r: Pseudo-Virgil, De institutioneboni viri (‘Virgilii Maronis deinstitutione boni viri, beginning ‘Vir bonuset prudens qualem vix repperit ullum’, ending ‘Descensus pravis dat palmam etpremia rectis’.

ff.209r-209v: Vomanus, De laudibus hortuli,beginning ‘Adeste Musae, maximi proles Iovis…’

f.209v-210r: Basilius, De Venere et vino(‘P. Virgilii Maronis de nocumentis

Veneriset Bachi’), beginning ‘Nec Veneris nec tu vini tenearis amore…

f.210r: Maximinus, De Y littera, beginning ‘Pythagorae, discrimine secta bicorni…’

f.210r: De Musis

ff.210r-211r: Pietro Mochi, Epigramma inLaudem Venetorum (1497), beginning ‘Tolle caput celsum gens Itala romulegaude OR ‘Dum mare delphinos , dum coeli clara tenebunt sydera…’.

ff.211r-218v: Virgil, Eclogues i-vi: 23with interlinear glosses.

ff.219r-223v: Maurus Servius, Commentary on Virgil’s Georgics iv: 1-327, beginning‘Protimus aerii – Rhetorice dicturus…’ ending ‘Sic in primo Aeneidos, Nos tuaprogenies coeli quibus annuis arcem. Item, quis.’ .

f.236v: Eusthenius, Pompeian, Basilius and Julian, Epitaphs of Virgil. (‘Epitaphiadistica edita ab infrascriptis illustribus viris de clarissimo poeta Virgilio.’) (Texts erased.)

Decoration:

6miniatures in the margins in gold and colours, of scenes illustrating the text(ff. 4r, 18r, 26r, 34v, 43v, 54r). A full foliate border in gold and colours,with a bird (f. 54r). Four partial borders in gold and colours (ff. 4r, 18r, 26r,43v). A historiated initial in gold and colours (f. 4r) and other foliateinitials in gold and colours. Unfinished after f. 65r with spaces left forinitials. Guide letters.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237153

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 272 : Poetic works of Virgil and other Late Roman poets.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0267]/040-002237153

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1473

End Date:

1473

Date Range:

c. 1473

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Paper.

Dimensions: 295 x 215 mm (text space 195 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. ii + 231 (ff. i, 1, 1*, 1**, 2-3 and 229-231 flyleaves; ff.224-228 watermarked paper leaves).

Collation: i^10-1+1 (1st leaf, probably blank, missing andreplaced; ff. 1*-10), ii-v¹⁰ (ff. 11-50), vi^10-1+1 (1stleaf missing and replaced, blank; ff. 50*-59), vii-x¹⁰ (ff. 60-99),xi^10-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 100-108). Catchwords.Leaf signatures.

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf, joints repaired.

Custodial History:

Origin: Austria (Melk?)

Provenance:

Charter in German dated Melk, St. George’s day 1399 (f. 2v).

Formerly bound with Burney 137, 265, 352, which have similar scripts and the same annotator, with the same watermark as in Burney 137 and 265; one of the texts in Burney 137 was written by 'Bolfgangus' (?) in 1473 (f. 60).

Possible shelfmark ‘N: i. 9’ (f. 2v).

Unidentified owner: included in the anonymous sale ‘A gentleman of taste: Manuscripts etc. purchased on late tour of the Continent’ 1 May 1804, lot 69, (bound with Burney 137, 272, and 352, when the order of texts was Virgil, Cicero, Terence, Valla, bought by Burney.

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.

Information About Copies:

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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. 69.R. D. Williams and T. S. Pattie Virgil. His Poetrythrough the Ages (London: British Library, 1982) no. 35, p. 130.Deutsche Handschriften in England, ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols in 1 vol (Hildesheim: Olms,1979), II: Das British Museum miteinem Anhang über die Guildhall-Bibliothek, p. 62, no. 82 (first publ. Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Servius Honoratus, Maurus, c 363-400,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000015587909,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/10970700
Vergilius Maro, Publius, 70 BC-19 BC,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000430695667

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 137
Burney MS 265
Burney MS 352