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Burney MS 309

Record Id:

040-002237220

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000165

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 309

Title:

Rule of St Benedict and other monastic texts.

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-26v: Rule of St Benedict ff. 1-2: Prologue. Inc. “Asculta o fili praecepta magistri tui” ff. 2-3: List of chapters. ff. 3-26v: Text. Inc. “Monachorum quattuor genera.” Expl. “…culmina deo protegente pervenies” (PL 66, 215-930)

ff. 27-28v: “Bona lectio et sub compendio ad monachos” Inc. Constitutiones novitiorum monachorum, pro quo surgitur ad vigilias” Expl. “se aestimet quasi solus sit ipse et deus. Amen” (Attributed to Arnulfus de Boeris in a slightly different version edited in PL 184, 1175-1178)

f. 28*: blank

ff. 29-50: Hugo de S. Victore, De institutione novitiorum. Inc. “Quia fratres largiente deo”. Expl. "...Bonitatem vero orate ut vobis det deus. Amen. (PL 176, 925-952)

ff. 50-58: Hugo de S. Victore, De modo orandi. Inc. “Quo studio et quo affect nobis” Expl. "...In ara cordis adoletur” (PL 176, 977-988)

ff. 58-63v: Alcuin, De virtutibus et vitiis, (chapters 15-25 the last being incomplete due to missing folios). Inc. “Initium sapientiae timor domini (Ps 90:10) - Magna est cautela” Expl. "...Favorem ne perdat quod habuit…” (PL 101, 324-632; Bloomfield 1442, Sharpe (2001), p. 41. MS not mentioned)

ff. 64-65: blank

Decoration

1 large puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 29). Small initials alternately red or blue, a few of them with penwork decoration in brown.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237220

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 309 : Rule of St Benedict and other monastic texts.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0304]/040-002237220

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1399

Date Range:

14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 x 150 mm (text space 155 x 120 mm in one column).

Foliation: ff. iii + 65 + 28* (ff. i-iii, 64-65 are flyleaves)

Collation: i8 (ff. 1-8), ii12 (ff. 9-20), iii14 (ff. 21-33), iv10 (ff. 34-43), v12 (ff. 44-55), vi8 (ff. 56-63).

Script: Gothic, with changes of script at ff. 21, 27, and 29

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in s 1962. Burney? flyleaf (f. iii) watermarked '1810'.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

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=1511&CollID=18&NStart=309

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. 85.

Jean Leclercq, 'Écrits monastiques sur la Bible aux XIe-XIIIe siècles.' Mediaeval Studies 15 (1953), 95–106. (p. 107. n. 23)

Rudolf Goy, Die Überlieferung der Werke Hugos von St. Victor, (Stuttgart: Hiersemann, 1976), p. 187. n. 37

Mechtild Gretsch, 'Die Winteney-Version der 'Regula Sancti Benedicti: Eine frühmittelalterliche Bearbeitung der altenglischen Prosaübersetzung der Benedictinerregel', Anglia: Zeitschrift für Englische Philologie, 96 (1978), 310-48 (p. 330).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Alcuin of York, c 735-804,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000115788089,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/96533523
Benedict of Nursia, Saint, Abbot of Montecassino, 480-c 547,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000455425858,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100179656
Hugh of Saint-Victor, c 1096-1141,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121201563,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/9865788