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Burney MS 304

Record Id:

040-002237215

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000160

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 304

Title:

Walter Burley, Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

Scope & Content:

Walter Burley, Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

f. 1r: Prologue. Begins 'Reverendo in Christo patri et domino suo domino Ricardo ordinatione divina Dunelmensis sedis episcopo suus clericorum minimus Gualtherus de Burley salutem et gratiam et in termino gloriam sempiternam...' Ends '....respiciens conversationem et vitam humanam.'
ff. 1r-67v: Text Begins 'Subiectum libri politicorum est civitas in qua pro materia est multitutido hominum sufficiens ad omnia exercenda, que ad vitam requiruntur. Forma civitatis est ipsa civium ordinatio...' Ends '…Et in hoc finitur intentio Aristotelis super totum quod translatum est de Graeco in Latinum super librum Politicorum ; etiam Deo qui dedit intelligere sint gratiae infinitae. Explicit Scriptum Magistri Galteri Burley super librum politicorum.'

Decoration:

1 large initial in blue with red penwork decoration (f. 1). Small initials alternately blue with red penwork, or red with brown penwork. Paraphs in blue or red.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237215

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 304 : Walter Burley, Commentary on Aristotle's Politics

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0299]/040-002237215

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1350

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

2nd half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Material: Parchment.

Dimensions: 275 x 195 (195 x 140) in two columns with intercolumn of 10mm.

Foliation: ff. vii + 75 (ff. i-vii and 69-75 are paper flyleaves).

Collation: i-vi10 (ff. 1-60), vii8 (ff. 61-68).

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of light brown polished calf; flyleaves include watermarks dated 1807; rebacked in 1950.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Unidentified English owner, second half of the 16th century or 17th century: 'Galterus Burleus sup(er) libru(m) politicoru(m).' (f. 1, upper margin).

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 is available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1578&CollID=18&NStart=304

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. 82.

Martin Grabmann, ‘Die mittelalterlichen Kommentare zur Politik des Aristoteles’, Sitzungsberichte der Bayerischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, philosophisch-historische Abteilung, 1941/II,10 (Munich, 1941), pp. 65-75 (p. 30).

Charles H. Lohr, ‘Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries Authors: G-I, Traditio 24 (1968), pp. 149–245 (pp. 186-187. Num. 37)

James Athanasius Weisheipl, ‘Repertorium Mertonense’, Mediaeval Studies 31 (1969) pp. 174-224. No 49b.

Richard Sharpe, A Handlist of the Latin Writers of Great Britain and Ireland before 1540 (Turnhout: Brepols, 2001), p. 719. (MS mentioned).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burley, Gualterus