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Burney MS 311

Record Id:

040-002237222

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000167

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 311

Title:

Humanist collection of mythological texts

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-57: Lactantius, Narrationes Fabularum Ovidiananrum. Inc. Chaos ut dcit Hesiodus…(Ed. Magnus (1915), pp. 631-721 with ending slightly different from the MS)
ff. 57v-58: blank
ff. 58-64v: Deorum Agenoelogia (!). Inc. “Demogorgon summus deorum genitor genuit Orionem, et has tres: Cloton, Lachesim et Atropon”. (Ed. Hankey (1990), pp. 123-130)
ff. 64v-72v Alia genalogia falsorum deorum Inc. “Demogorgon deorum pater primus genuit Omageona. Omageon Celium. Celius Titanum” (Ed. Hankey (1990), pp. 131-140.)
ff. 72v: Short extract on Jupiter Inc. Iupiter cum ethnam ethne montis deam pregnantem redidisset…. Expl. Victimis ministrabant.
ff. 73-78: Index of names to following Mythographus
ff. f. 78v: blank
ff. 79-80v: Supplement B A of Mythographus Vaticanus II Inc. Septem mirabilia mundi Legitur septem fuisse. (Ed. Kulcsar (1987), pp. 327-328)
ff. 81v-185v: Mythographus Vaticanus II. (Ed. Kulcsar (1987), pp. 95-290)
ff. 186-187v: blank

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
040-002237222

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 311 : Humanist collection of mythological texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0306]/040-002237222

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Paper codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1462

End Date:

1462

Date Range:

1462

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper.

Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm (text space 115/120 x 70 mm in one column).

Foliation: ff. iv + 192 (ff. i-iv and 188-192 are paper flyleaves)

Script: Humanistic minuscule.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical of manuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included books said to have been imported from Sicily); rebacked in 1971.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, North East

Provenance:

‘Mithologeiarum liber feliciter finit anno domini M .CCCC.LXII’ (f. 185v).

The Donati family of Venice, (arms, f. 1).

Unidentified owner: included in the anonymous sale 'Importation from Sicily’, April 19, 1817, lot 51, bought by Burney for 3s.

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=1512&CollID=18&NStart=311https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1512&CollID=18&NStart=311

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.

Ursula D. Hunt,Le Sommaire en prose des Métamorphoses d'Ovide dans le manuscrit Burney 311 au Musée Britannique de Londres (Oxford, 1925)

A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 512.

Péter Kulcsár, Mythographi Vaticanii I et II, Corpus Christianorum Series Latina 91C (1987), p. VII (this manuscript as ‘B’).

Teresa Hankey, “Un nuovo codice delle 'Genealogie deorum' di Paolo da Perugia,” Studi sul Boccaccio 18 (1989): 65–162.

Pierre Hamblenne, review of Péter Kulcsár, Mythographi Vaticanii I et II, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 44 (1990), pp. 151-56.

Frank T. Coulson and Bruno Roy, Incipitarium Ovidianum: A Finding Guide for Texts related to the Study of Ovid in the Middle Ages and Renaissance, (Turnhout: Brepols, 2000), p. 38. num, 52 and p. 47. num. 89.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Donati, Family
Lactantius Firmianus, Cæcilius