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Burney MS 289
- Record Id:
- 040-002237200
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000151
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 289
- Title:
- Augustine, Confessions.
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1r-126v: Augustine, Confessions
f. 126v: Petrarch, Verses, inc. Hunc celer adfontem deserta
f. 127r: Pseudo-Augustine, Sermon, inc. Ex dictis Aurelii Augustini episcopi: Non enim mediocriter errat.
Decoration:
Large and small gold initials with white vine scroll decoration on blue, olive green, and yellow grounds, the first with a putto, bird and butterfly. Small simple red initials. Some headings and notes in pink or red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237200 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 289 : Augustine, Confessions. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0284]/040-002237200
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1427
- End Date:
- 1427
- Date Range:
- 1427
- 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: 235 x 160 mm (text space 150 x 100 mm).
Foliation: ff. iv + 132 (ff. i-iv, 1, and 130-132 are flyleaves: i-iii and 130-132 are modern paper, ff. iv and 1 are parchment; ff. 128-129 are blank folios that are part of the last gathering).
Script: Humanistic. Scribe: Ser Niccolò Berti Martine de Gentiluccis of S. Gimignano.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown tooled calf; title on edges.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy, Central (Florence).
Provenance:
Written in 1427 according to a note on f. 126v: ‘per me n. mcccc xxvij’ probably by Ser Niccolò Berti Martine de Gentiluccis of S. Gimignano (b. c.1389, d. 1468), in Florence, Italy, according to Garzelli and de la Mare 1985 and the unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library.
? Cardinal Domenico Capranica (b. 1400, d. 1458), theologian, canonist, and statesman.
On ff. iv recto and 1r a partly erased (?) 17th century inscription: ‘71 Collegii’, possibly referring to the Collegio Capranica, Rome, which in a 1657 catalogue included an ‘Augustini retractationes et confessiones . de pergameno in 4° (see Tietze 1911, p. ix, col. 2).
Inscribed in a 17th century hand: ‘Julius Cesar Valentinus/Romanus fio s . . .’ , f. 1v, possibly a librarian of the Collegio Capranica.
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, Central (Florence).
- 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=1545&CollID=18&NStart=289].
- Publications:
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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.
Die Illuminierten Handschriften der Rossiana in Wien-Lainz, ed. by Hans Tietze, Beschreibendes Verzeichnis der illuminierten Handschriften in Österreich, 5 (Leipzig: Hiersemann, 1911), p. ix, col. 2.
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.
Nicholas Mann, Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles, Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi, 6 (Padova: Editrice Antenore, 1975), no. 83.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 510, pl. 394.
A. C. de la Mare, 'New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence', in Minatura fiorentina del rinascimento, 1440-1525: un primo censimento, ed by A. Garzelli and A. C. de la Mare, Inventari e cataloghi toscani, 18-19, 2 vols ([Florence]: Giunta regionale toscana, 1985), I, pp. 395-421 (and in the App. pp. 516-8, no. 7).
Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997), IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Almo Collegio Capranica, Rome, 1457-
Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Capranica, Domenico, Cardinal, Bishop of Fermo, Legate in La Marca, Central Italy, 1400-1458
Gentilucci, Niccolò Berti Martine, Ser, of S. Gimignano, scribe and notary, of Florence, 1389-1468
Petrarca, Francesco, poet, 1304-1374