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Burney MS 294

Record Id:

040-002237205

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000156

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 294

Title:

Theological miscellany

Scope & Content:

A typical latemedieval miscellany of theological texts for the low clergy.

Contents:

ff. 1r-39r: Honoriusof Autun, Dialogus de cognitione verae vitae.(printed in PL 40, 1005-32)

ff. 39r-48r: Williamof St. Thierry, Epistola ad fratres de MonteDei chapters 95-119 (‘Tractatus beati Augustini de bona voluntate’),beginning ‘Bona enim voluntas origo est in animo omnium bonorum.’ ending ‘…in fronte celle semper habeat secretum meum michi, secretum meummichi."

ff. 48r-66r: Baudri deBourgueil, de visitation infirmorum (‘Tractatusbeati Augustini de visitatione infirmorum’),( printed in PL 40, 1147-58)

ff. 66r-76r: Tractatusde Sacramento eucharistiae, beginning ‘Quod non manet panis materials factus…’ending ‘…promovemur per spem et figimur per amorem.’

ff. 76r-106r: Treatiseon the eight capital vices comprising extracts from various works such as Pseudo-Aristotle’sSecreta secretorum, Augustine’s Manuel etc., beginning ‘O dilectissime,conservet te Deus in via cognoscendi creatorem tuum…’ ending ‘…et heredes quidemDei erunt, coheredes autem Christi, cui est.’

Decoration:

Blue initial with red pen-flourishing. Other simple red initials. Red highlighting of some letters. Cadels.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237205

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 294 : Theological miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0289]/040-002237205

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 150 x 105 mm (text space 110 x 65 mm).

Foliation: ff. iii + 109 (ff. 107-109 are modern paper flyleaves).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Olive leather with gold tooling, including stamped flowers on the spine; marbled endpapers; marbled edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: France or England.

Provenance:

Inscribed 'Carolus dei gracia Angliae Scocie Franc et Hibernii Rex fidei defensor etc.' (f. 106r).

A possible sale price '7.6' (f. ii, recto upper right hand corner).

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, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1402&CollID=18&NStart=294].

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. 75.

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), pp. 167-68.

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
Baldric of Bourgueil, Archbishop of Dol, c 1046-1130,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000116553265,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61654660
Charles I, King of England, Scotland and Ireland, 1600-1649