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Burney MS 307

Record Id:

040-002237218

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000163

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 307

Title:

William Brito, Biblical Vocabulary

Scope & Content:

ff. 2-154: William Brito, Vocabularium Biblicum,

f. 2 Prologue. Inc. "Difficiles studeo partes, quas Biblia gestat."

ff. 2-144v: Text. Inc. "A littera, sicut dicit Isidorus in primo libro ethimologiarum." Expl. "Iste magister de Babilone, in Babilone enim ortus est, ubi et princeps Juda extitit : verba sunt Isidori ethimologiarum vii."

f. 144v: Verse colophon "Hic ego doctorum compegi scripta sacrorum / Floribus auctorum loca certa notando librorum / In serie quorum textus patet hic positorum / Previe cunctorum consummatorque bonorum / Lux occultorum via veri, dux dubiorum / Sit tibi, coelorum rex, gloria, culmen honorum / Quod completorum datur hic mihi meta laborum / Egis egenorum numero quia dego Minorum / Te precor ipsorum comitem me fac meritorum / Sorte beatorum quod sim velut unus eorum" (Cf. Daly (1975), 2. p. 857.)

ff. 145-154v: Index

ff. 155-156v: Arnald of Villanova, De esu carnium "Adversum me loquebantur qui sedebant in porta, et in me psallebant qui vinum bibebant. (Ps. 58: 13) – Christus his verbis conqueritur de phariseis et legisperitis." (Bazell (1999), p. 110-135.)

f. 157: various notes from different hands related to the history of the manuscript

Decoration

Small red initials, some decorated with flourishing or patterns. Border of parallel red lines (f. 1).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237218

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 307 : William Brito, Biblical Vocabulary

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0302]/040-002237218

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:

1274

Date Range:

2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 210 (230 x 150)300 x 210 mm (text space 230 x 150 mm in two columns with intercolumn of 10 mm, except for ff. 155-156 which is in one column and f. 156 in one narrower column).

Foliation: ff. ii + 160 (ff. i, 1, 1*, and 158-160 are paper flyleaves; f. 157 parchment, possibly part of the gathering structure)Script: Gothic cursive (Bastarda).

Binding: Post-1600. Red morocco with border of gold stamped flowers; gilt edges; marbled end papers.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

Unidentified reader, 13th century(?) : inscribed with a date(?) '1285' (ff. 5, 157).

Inscribed '1300' (f. 6).

The Chartreuse de Notre Dame, Pierre-Chatel in the diocese of Belley, Ain, with a loan inscription dated 1453 (f. 157).

Note of rebinding at Castres, May 1658 (f. 157), perhaps relating to the library there formed by Jacques d'Armagnac, duc de Nemours.

Count Justin de MacCarthy-Reagh (b. 1744, d. 1811): his sale, 18 May 1789 lot 1567; bought by Chapman for 12s. 6d.

King & Chapman, booksellers; their catalogue 15 November 1790, lot 2746.

John Brand (b. 1744, d. 1806), antiquary and topographer: inscribed in pencil ‘A Dictionary of the Bible [Wrote] About Anno, Domini, 1280’ (f. 1); for similar notes see Burney MS 39, 288, 320, 323, and Add. 18601.

Charles Forster, of Low Buxton, Northumberland: his sale 18 May 1808, lot 2551; bought by Burney for £2 7s.

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:

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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. 84.

Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle. (Fribourg: Suisse, Editions universitaires, 1965-[1982 ]), vol. 6., p. 321 num. 21815

Lloyd W. Daly and Bernardine A. Daly (eds), Summa Britonis sive Guillelmi Britonis Expositiones Vocabulorum Biblie, 2 vols (Padua: Editrice Antenore, 1975), I, p. xliii.

Dianne M. Bazell (ed.), Arnaldi de Villanova, Opera Medica Omnia vol. XI: De Esu Carnium, (Barcelona: University of Barcelona Press, 1999) (manuscript not mentioned)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Arnaldus de Villa Nova, c 1240-1311
Guilelmus Brito, author of Vocabularium Biblicum, c 1165-after 1226,
see also http://isni.org/isni/000000010985801X