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Burney MS 287
- Record Id:
- 040-002237198
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00014f
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 287
- Title:
- Robert de Braci, or Eadmer, or Alexander of Canterbury, Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters
- Scope & Content:
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Robert de Braci, or Eadmer, or Alexander of Canterbury, Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters.
Same scribe as, and probably bound at the end of, Burney MS 320, with very similar mis-en-page and decoration, and flyleaf notations.
Decoration:
Full border, of red pen flourishing (f. 2r). Small initials in red and blue with pen-flourishing.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237198 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 287 : Robert de Braci, or Eadmer, or Alexander of Canterbury, Similitudines Anselmi, with table of chapters - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0282]/040-002237198
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Material: Parchment.
Dimensions: 230 x 165 mm (text space 150 x 95 mm).
Foliation: ff. i + 66 (ff. i, 1, 65 and 66 are flyleaves; ff. i and 66 of paper).
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown polished calf; marbled end papers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
Provenance:
Former shelfmark (?) ‘L.N.9’, ‘N° 3’ (f. i verso) and ‘B’ (f. 66r).
? John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer (inscribed in pencil ‘Archbishop Anselm’s Similitudes, Compleat/Wrote about Anno Domini 1400 in the Court Hand’, f. 1r); for similar notations see Burney MS 39, MS 288, MS 307 (?), MS 320, MS 323, and Additional MS 18601.
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=1538&CollID=18&NStart=287].
- 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. 74.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alexander of Canterbury, Early 12th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000432135065,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/212233594
Anselm of Canterbury, Saint, Abbot of Bec and Archbishop of Canterbury, c 1033-1109,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121451191,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100187025
Braci, Robert, prior of Llanthony, 12th century
Brand, John, Reverend; antiquary and topographer; FSA, 1744-1806
Eadmer of Canterbury, c 1060-after 1126,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000007139399X,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100181126 - Related Archive Descriptions:
- Burney MS 320