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Burney MS 293
- Record Id:
- 040-002237204
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000155
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 293
- Title:
- Augustine, De doctrina christiana, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, and various sermons and homilies, including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis; Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, imperfect
- Scope & Content:
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Augustine, De doctrina christiana (ff. 3r-113r), De perfectione iustitiae hominis (ff. 114r-118r), and various sermons and homilies (ff. 131r-135r), including same by Pseudo-Augustine; Isidore of Seville, Synonymorum de lamentatione animae peccatricis (ff. 135r-166r); Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, (imperfect) (ff. 113r-114r; 118r-131r).
Decoration:
Large initials, many decorated with foliate interlace in red and brown, or red or brown, some on a light yellow ground, some unfinished or with spaces left for initials. Simple red initials. Display script in several colours.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237204 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 293 : Augustine, De doctrina christiana, De perfectione iustitiae hominis, and various sermons and homilies, including same by… - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0288]/040-002237204
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1100
- End Date:
- 1149
- Date Range:
- 1st half of the 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: 265 x 175 mm (text space 195 x 115 mm).
Foliation: ff. iii + 169 (ff. 1-2 and 167-169 are flyleaves, ff. 1-2 of parchment; ff. 167-169 of modern paper).
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: France, S.
Provenance:
Erased early inscription (f. 166v).
15th century table of contents (f. 1v).
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:
- France, S.
- 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=1581&CollID=18&NStart=293].
- 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.
Sancti Aureli Augustini: De perfectione iustitiae hominis, De gestis Pelagii, De gratia Christi et de peccato originali, ed. by Charles Urba and Jospeh Zycha, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum, 42 (Vienna: Tempsky, 1902), p. VIII.
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. 167.
Clavis Patristica Pseudepigraphorum Medii Aevi, ed. by John Machielsen, 5 vols (Turnhout: Brepols, 1990-2010), IA: Opera Homilectica, pars A, no. 1324.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Alcuin of York, c 735-804,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115788089,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523
Augustine of Hippo, Saint, Bishop of Hippo, 354-430,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121376443,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/66806872
Isidore of Seville, Saint, Bishop of Seville, c 560-636,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122756296,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/803890