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Burney MS 297
- Record Id:
- 040-002237208
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000159
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 297
- Title:
- Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-130: Beda Venerabilis, Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum. (Inc. Gloriosissimo regi Ceolulpho Beda famulus Christi et presbyter.... Expl. ....sive etiam ad formam sensus et interpretations eorum superadicere curavi) breaks off without the register of Bede's works.
ff. 130-131: Cuthbert of Wearmouth and Jarrow, Epistola de obitu Bedae. (with dedication omitted Inc. Dilectissimo in Christo lectori.... Expl. sed ineruditio linguae brevitatem sermonis facit.)
Felix qui scripsit sit et qui talia scripsit.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237208 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 297 : Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English People - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0292]/040-002237208
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1250
- End Date:
- 1350
- Date Range:
- 13th century-14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 270 x 170 mm (text space 200 x 130 mm).
Foliation: ff. 131 (2 unfoliated paper and 2 unfoliated parchment flyleaves at the beginning, 6 paper flyleaves at the end of the volume with Burney's table of contents on the last flyleaf).
Script: Gothic book hand of the late 13th century.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England (cf. provenance).
Provenance:
The library of Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672) cf. f. 1: "Roger Twyndale 1661". Cf. also f. 46, lower margin. 'James Meredyth, desessed' (=deceased). Purchased at his sale at Sotheby's 6 April 1807 by Charles Burney.
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.
- 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. 76.
C. Plummer, Venerabilis Bedae Historiam ecclesiasticam gentis Anglorum.... (Oxonii: Clarendon Press. 1896), pp. cxx-cxxi.
E. Van Kirk Dobbie, The manuscripts of Cædmon's hymn and Bede's Death song: with a critical text of the Epistola Cuthberti de obitu Bedæ, (Columbia University Press, 1937), p. 88.
M. L. Wolfram Laistner, Henry Hall King, A hand-list of Bede manuscripts, (Cornell University Press, 1943), p. 97.
B. Colgrave, R. A. Baskerville Mynors, Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1969), p. liv.
P. Chiesa, L. Castaldi, La trasmissione dei testi latini del Medioevo, Vol. 3. (Firenze: SISMEL, 2008), p. 107.
E. Potten, ‘From Printed Book to Manuscript – the Nostell Priory Αρχαιονομια’ In: Care and Conservation of Manuscripts 11 – Proceedings of the Eleventh International Seminar (Museum Tusculanum: 2009), pp. 49-63 (pp. 60-61. n. 17.).
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Bede the Venerable, Saint, c 673-735,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120962352,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/61539765
Cuthbert of Wearmouth, Abbot of Wearmouth, fl 735,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000468149610,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/286188116