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Burney MS 281
- Record Id:
- 040-002237192
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000149
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 281
- Title:
- Victor of Cartenna, Liber de Poenitentia; Didymus the Blind, De Spiritu Sancto, with preface by Jerome; Paschasius Deacon, De Spiritu Sancto; Augustine, Sermons, and other theological works
- Scope & Content:
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Victor of Cartenna, Liber de Poenitentia (ff. 1r-38r); Didymus the Blind (in Jerome's translation), De Spiritu Sancto, with preface by Jerome (ff. 38r-81r); Paschasius Deacon, De Spiritu Sancto (ff. 81r-112r); Augustine, Sermons, and other theological works (ff. 81r-127r).
Decoration:
Large foliate initial in brown ink on a red ground. Small red initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237192 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 281 : Victor of Cartenna, Liber de Poenitentia; Didymus the Blind, De Spiritu Sancto, with preface by Jerome; Paschasius Deacon, De… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0276]/040-002237192
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1060
- End Date:
- 1140
- Date Range:
- Late 11th century-Early 12th 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: 255 x 165 mm (text space 195 x 110 mm).
Foliation: ff. vii + 135 (ff. i-vii and 128-134 are paper flyleaves; ff. iv-vii and 128-131 of 19th-century lined notepaper).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown polished diced calf, typical of Burney bindings.
ff. iv-vii and 128-131 are apparently leaves of lined Burney notepaper, with various watermarks, including an image of Britannia? in an oval medallion topped with a crown (ff. iv, v, 128r and 129), and '[R]use & Turners 1806' (ff. vi, vii, 130, and 131).
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy.
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.
- Administrative Context:
- Italy.
- 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=1558&CollID=18&NStart=281].
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, (London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 73.
Louis Doutreleau, ‘Étude d’une tradition manuscrite: Le ‘De Spiritu Sancto’ de Didyme’, in Kyriakon: Festschrift Johannes Quasten, ed. by Patrick Granfield and Josef A. Jungman (Munster: Aschendroff, 1970) pp. 352-89 (pp. 354, 362-4) (this manuscript as ‘y’).
Franz Römer, Die Handschriftliche Überlieferung der Werke des Heiligen Augustinus, 9 vols (Vienna: Böhlau, 1969-2001), II/2: Grossbritannien und Irland: Verzeichnis nach Bibliotheken, Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Sitzungsberichte, 276 (1972), p. 166.
Didyme l’Aveugle: traité du st-Esprit: introduction, texte critique, traduction, notes et index par Louis Doutreleau, ed. and trans. by Louis Doutreleau, Sources chrétiennes, 386 (Paris: CERF, 1992), p. 107 (this manuscript as ‘Y’).
Mediaeval Latin Texts and Their Transmission, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi (Florence: SISMEL, 2004), p. 431 (Liber de Poenitentia of this manuscript as ‘B’).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Didymus the Blind, theologian, c 313-398
Jerome, Saint, c 345-420,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000123213293,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/95147024
Paschasius, deacon of Rome, 6th century
Victor, Bishop of Cartenna, 5th century