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Burney MS 280

Record Id:

040-002237191

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000148

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 280

Title:

Historia Alexandri Magni, Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano, Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly

Scope & Content:

Historia Alexandri Magni (ff. 1r-20v), Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano (ff. 20v-38v), Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly (ff. 38v-117v).

Offsets of Hebrew on f. i recto.

Decoration:

Large initials in blue with red penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, or red with brown penwork decoration and pen-flourishing, at the start of texts and major divisions. Small initials similar but simpler.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237191

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 280 : Historia Alexandri Magni, Dares Phrygius, De bello Troiano, Martinus Polonus, Chronica pontificum et imperatorum, ending imperfectly

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0280]/040-002237191

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Hebrew
Latin

Scripts:

Hebrew
Latin

Start Date:

1260

End Date:

1340

Date Range:

Late 13th century-Early 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 135 mm (text space 155 x 90 mm).

Foliation: ff. ii + 118 (ff. i-ii and 118 are paper flyleaves).

Collation: i-ix¹² (ff. 1-108), x^12-3 (last three leaves missing, ff. 109-117).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Red morocco, bound for Thomas Rawlinson; the covers framed in gilt, scallop shells in the corners, the centre with a bird within a wreath (effaced); the upper cover with 'Ioseph Ames' in capitals in blind; rebacked and repaired in 1962.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Medieval ownership(?) inscription in red (erased, f. 1r, lower margin).

Francis Bernard (bap. 1628, d. 1698), apothecary and physician: listed as his in [Edward Bernard], Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae (Oxford: Sheldonian, '1697'), no. 3610.

Charles Bernard (bap. 1652, d. 1710), surgeon: his sale, 22 March 1711, lot 949, bought by Rawlinson for 10s.

Thomas Rawlinson (b. 1681, d. 1725), book collector, bound for him; his sale, 4 March 1733, lot 381.

Joseph Ames (b. 1689, d. 1759), bibliographer and antiquary: his sale, 5 May 1760, lot 344.

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 472, bought by Wright for 7s. 6d.

Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), book collector and poet (note in his hand, f. ii recto): his anonymous sale, 3 March 1801, lot 529, bought by Burney for £1 1s.

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:

England.

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=1526&CollID=18&NStart=280].

Publications:

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. 72-73.

H. L. D. Ward (and J. A. Herbert), Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910) I, 21-22, 118.

D. J. A. Ross, ‘A Check-list of MSS of Three Alexander Texts: The Julius Valerius Epitome, the Epistola ad Aristotelem and the Collatio cum dindimo’, Scriptorium, 10 (1956), 127-32 (p. 130).

Wolfgang-Valentin Ikas, Martin von Troppau (Martinus Polonus), O.P. (d. 1278) in England: Überlieferungs- und wirkungsgeschichtliche Studien zu dessen Papst- und Kaiserchronik, Wissensliteratur im Mittelalter, 40 (Wiesbaden: Reichert, 2002), pp. 20, 48 no. 1.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ames, Joseph, FRS; Secretary, Society of Antiquaries, 1689-1759
Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Bernard, Charles, serjeant-surgeon to Queen Anne 1702, c 1652-1710
Bernard, Francis, apothecary and physician, bap. 1628, d. 1698
Dares Phrygius, priest of Hephaestus and writer,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079756898,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/55518848
Martinus of Troppau, Archbishop of Gniezno, d 1278,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079696071
Rawlinson, Thomas, book collector, 1681-1725
Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082193889,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/38088759