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Burney MS 308

Record Id:
040-002237219
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002236305
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000164
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 308
Title:

Hugh of St Victor, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Celestial Hierarchy

Scope & Content:

ff. 2-105: Hugh of St Victor, Commentary on Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Celestial Hierarchy (PL 175, 923-1154)

f. 106: Notes on translation of Greek technical terms such as analytica, hymnologia., theosophia. Prayer for enemies "Deus, pacis caritatisque amator et custos, da omnibus inimicis meis pacem caritatemque veram cunctorumque eis tribue remissionem peccatorum meque ab eorum insidiis potenter eripe qui vivis." (PL 101, 460)

Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Burney Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002236305
040-002237219
Is part of:
Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

 

Burney MS 308 : Hugh of St Victor, Commentary on Pseudo-Dionysius the Areopagite's Celestial Hierarchy
Hierarchy:
032-002236305[0303]/040-002237219
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
Parchment codex.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1150
End Date:
1174
Date Range:
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 12th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 280 x 185 mm (text space 200 x 130 mm in two columns with intercolumn of 10 mm).

Foliation: ff. i + 108 (ff. i, 1, 107, and 108 are paper flyleaves; f. 106 is a parchment flyleaf affixed to paper)

ff. 107 and 108 watermarked with an image of Britannia? in an oval medallion topped by a crown. Evidence that a book-plate has been removed (inside front cover). For another manuscript owned by Palmer see Burney 2; and for the Palmers generally see Brownbill (1962)

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Red morocco, tooled with a gold flower pattern around its edges; marbled end-papers and gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: France.

Provenance:

  • Ralph Palmer II (b. 1668, d. 1745/6), barrister, of Little Chelsea.
  • Ralph Palmer III (b. 1712, d. 1755), barrister, of Little Chelsea (inscription: ‘Bibliotheca Palmeriana, / Londini, 1747’, f. 1).
  • Ralph Verney (b. 1714, d. 1791), second Earl Verney, politician, Palmer’s cousin (book-plate removed from inside front cover).
  • Price codes: 'u - cc-yi - u-do/', f. 107v.
  • A possible purchase price '[obscured ] .£ . 0' (f. 108).
  • 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: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1583&CollID=18&NStart=308
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), pp. 84-85.

J. Brownbill, 'Palmer of Little Chelsea', Genealogists Magazine 2 (1926), pp. 67-72.

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Hugh of Saint-Victor, c 1096-1141,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121201563,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9865788
Pseudo-Dionysius, the Areopagite, before 532,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121463424