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Burney MS 310
- Record Id:
- 040-002237221
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000166
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 310
- Title:
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Historical miscellany
- Scope & Content:
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This manuscript is one of the eight copies made from Durham Cathedral MS. B.ii.35.
Content:
ff. 1-89v: Eusebius of Caesarea, Church History in Rufinus of Aquleia’s Latin translation
ff. 90-158: Bede, The Ecclesiastical History of the English People
f. 158-165v: Gildas, Historia Brittonum (attributed to Nennius). f. 158: Prologue Inc. "Incipit eulogium breuissimum Britanniae insulae quod Nennius Eluodugi discipulus congregauit. Ego Nennius Eluodugi." ff. 158v-165v: Text ending with the marvels of Britain in a slightly different order than in standard editions.
ff. 165v-167v: Caradog of Llancarfan, Life of Gildas (BHL 3542)
ff. 167v-171v: Life of Bede (BHL 1069)
f. 171v: Excerpt from a Letter of Pope Sergius to Abbot Ceolfrid in which Bede is summoned to Rome
ff. 171v-176: Bede, Bede, Historia Abbatum, Inc. 'Incipit vita beatorum abbatum Benedicti, Ceolfridi, Eosterwini, Sigfridi atque Hwaetbernti (sic). Religiosus Christi Famulus Biscopus cognomento Benedictus'. (CPL 1378; BHL 8968)
Decoration
Three-sided border of pen-flourishing in red and blue (f. 1). Large puzzle initials in blue and red with penwork foliate or geometric decoration in blue, red, or purple. Large and small blue initials with red penwork decoration.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237221 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 310 : Historical miscellany - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0305]/040-002237221
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1381
- End Date:
- 1381
- Date Range:
- 1381
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 345 x 235 mm (text space 235 x 165 mm in two columns with an intercolumn of 15 mm).
Foliation: ff. ii + 178 (ff. i-ii and 177-178 are paper flyleaves)
Collation: i-xvii10 (ff. 1-170), xviiisix (probably 8-2 without loss of text; ff. 171-176).
Script: Gothic, hand of William of Stiphel.
Binding: Post-1600. Fine-tooled brown morocco; gilt leaves; marbled endpapers.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England, N. (Finchale)
Provenance:
Written by William of Stiphel (Stiphel may be Stival, near Vannes, in Britanny, according to Watson 1979 vol. I, no. 511; see also Doyle 1990 p. 8.) for Utredo de Boldon (d. 1397), prior of the Benedictine priory of St John the Baptist and St Godric at Finchale, England, a cell of Durham Cathedral priory (inscription, f. 89v: ‘scriptus per manum Guillelmi dicti du Stiphel de Britania pro venerabili et religioso viro domino Utredo Dunelmensi monacho ac sancte sacre pagine doctore. Anno domini millesimo ccc\o/ octuagesimo primo vicesimo sexto die mensis augusti. In fincal’, and, in the lower margin, ‘G. du Stiphel’; inscription, f. 158, after explicit: ‘G. du Stiphel’).
Listed in the 1395 catalogue of Durham Cathedral priory library as manuscript ‘N’ on p. 56 and 65. (see Catalogi veteres librorum ecclesiæ Cathedralis Dunhelm: catalogues of the library of Durham Cathedral, at various periods, from the conquest to the dissolution: including catalogues the library of the Abbey of Hulne and of the MSS. preserved in the library of Bishop Cosin, at Durham, ed. by James Raine, Surtees Society (London: Nichols and Son, 1838)).
'N x Nx' in pencil, 18th century (f. i verso).
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=18571&CollID=18&NStart=310
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 85.
Joseph Loth, L'émigration bretonne en Armorique du Ve au VIIe siècle de notre ère (Paris: Picard, 1883), p. 245.
The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner, (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 199 (bound as 37).
Venerabilis Baedae opera historica , ed by Charles Plummer, 2 vols (Oxford: Clarendon, 1896), I, pp. cvii-cviii, cxliii-cxliv (as ‘Bu2 ’); II, 364-387 (this manuscript as ‘B’ for the edition of the vitae Abbatum Benedicti, Ceolfridi, Eosterwini, Sigfridi et Hwaetberti).
Ferdinand Lot, Nennius et L’Historia Brittonum: étude critique, (Bibliothèque de l'École des Hautes Études, sciences historiques et philologiques, 263) (Paris, 1934), p. 4 and passim (this manuscript as ‘G’ in the fourth family of the text of Historia Brittonum, or the version by Nennius).
Durham Cathedral Manuscripts to the End of the Twelfth Century, intro. by R. A. B. Mynors (Oxford: University Press, 1939), p. 41 note.
M. L. W. Laistner with H. H. King, A Hand-List of Bede Manuscripts (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1943), pp. 97, 112.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, 2nd ed., Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 3 (London: The Royal Historical Society, 1964), p. 72.
Bede's Ecclesiastical History of the English People, ed. by Bertram Colgrave and R. A. B Mynors (Oxford: Clarendon, 1969), pp. liii-liv.
Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts: The British Library, 2 vols (London: The British Library, 1979), I, no. 511; II, pl. 270.
Medieval Libraries of Great Britain: A List of Surviving Books, ed. by N. R. Ker, Supplement to the Second Edition, ed. by Andrew G. Watson, Royal Historical Society Guides and Handbooks, 15 (London: Royal Historical Society, 1987), p. 30.
A. I. Doyle, ‘Book Production by the Monasatic Orders in England (c. 1375-1530), in Medieval Book Production: Assessing the Evidence, ed. by Linda l. Brownrigg, Proceedings of the Second Conference of The Seminar in the History of the Book to 1500, Oxford, July 1998 (Los Altos Hills, California: Anderson-Lovelace, 1990), pp. 1-21 (p. 8).
David Dumville, Histories and Pseudo-Histories of the Insular Middle Ages (Aldershot: Varorium, 1990), pp. 21, 79, 372 n. 5.
John B. Friedman, Northern English Book Owners, and Makers in the Late Middle Ages (Syracuse, NY: Syracuse University Press, 1995), pp. 57-67; 212, 214, p. 245 no. 108, esp. pp. 61-63, 212, 214, and 245.
Historia Britonum: The History of the Britons attributed to Nennius, trans by Richard Rowley (Lampeter: Llanerch, 2005), p. 1.
Richard Gameson, ‘Bede in Durham Cathedral Library: Notes on Material Exhibited on 7 August 2008’ ([n.p.]: [n. pub], [n.d.]), p. 5.
Richard Gameson, Manuscript Treasures of Durham Cathedral (London: Third Millennium, 2010), pp. 60-61.
- 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
Eusebius of Caesarea, Bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, c 263-c 340,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122758806,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/4929593
Gildas, Saint, called 'the Wise' or 'Badonicus', c 500-c 575,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000449269158,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/203402485
Rufinus of Aquileia, c 345-411,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109183286,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/77679446
William of Stiphel, 14th century