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Burney MS 284
- Record Id:
- 040-002237195
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00014c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 284
- Title:
- Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Historia Tripertita
- Scope & Content:
- ff. 2-144v: Anastasius Bibliothecarius: Historia Tripertitaff. 2-3: Prologue. Inc. "Ecclesiasticam, carissime frater et digne..." Expl. "quod ei secundum vires offertur"ff. 3-143v: Historia Tripertita with list of emperors. bishops and biblical books moved from the end of Nicephorus's Chronicle (f. 7) to the end of the work at ff. 140v-143v.Decoration: 1 large zoomorphic initial (f. 7v). 1 small initial with zoomorphic features (f. 2). Added marginal drawings, 13th century (ff. 6v, 20, 85v, 142v). Small plain red initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237195 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 284 : Anastasius Bibliothecarius, Historia Tripertita - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0279]/040-002237195
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1075
- End Date:
- 1124
- Date Range:
- last quarter of the 11th century or 1st quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 330 x 240 mm (text space 255 x 180 mm in two columns with intercolumnium of 15 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 145 (ff. i-ii, 1, 144-145 are flyleaves).
Script: Beneventan minuscule, written by two hands with the second taking over at f. 64; the first uses quire signatures, the second uses catchwords. Marginal annotations by a later humanist hand.
Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of brown calf; joints repaired in 1962.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy (Campania?).
Provenance:
The Benedictine abbey of S. Severino, Naples, by 14th century or 15th century: inscribed 'Hic li[ber est ...ij?] s(anc)t(i) seuerinj di Neapoli / ... signatum est littera numero vero /...' (f. 2, erased). ?
Giovanni Pontano (b. 1426, d. 1503), Italian humanist and poet: annotated throughout in his hand.
Unidentified owner, 18th century?: f. 1 is a re-used upside-down sheet with cursive script on the verso and '32' on the recto.
Unidentified owner: probably in the sale of a 'gentleman of taste', 1 May 1804, lot 68.
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:
- Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1474&CollID=18&NStart=284
- 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. 73. Virginia Brown, 'A Second New List of Beneventan Manuscripts (III)', Mediaeval Studies, 56 (1994), 299-350 (pp. 314-15). Francis Newton, The Scriptorium and Library at Monte Cassino 1058-1105, Cambridge Studies in Palaeography and Codicology, 7 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1999), p. 277. Jakub Kujawinski, 'Constructing Historical Knowledge, Inventing Historical Method: the Evidence of Medieval Commentaries and Glosses on Historical Writing', in The Medieval Chronicle 12, ed. by Erik Kooper, Sjoerd Levelt (Brill: Leiden, 2019), pp. 116-145.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Anastasius, Bibliothecarius