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Burney MS 312

Record Id:

040-002237223

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000168

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 312

Title:

Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis with commentaries.

Scope & Content:

This manuscript isone of the many copies of the 12^th-century Latin epic by Walter ofChatillon (d. 1180) retelling the history of Alexander the Great. It was a verypopular school text for education. This copypreserves a school commentary explaining both the form and the content of the poem included after the main text in the manuscript.

Contents:

ff. 2v-93v: Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis, Books 1-10 with extensivemarginal and some interlinear glosses.

ff. 94r-173v: Anonymous commentary on the Alexandreis. Imperfect, begins ‘Sicut philosophus in De motu animalium, idoneae passiones praeparant partes organicas...’, ends ‘…et quia malum est magno periculo se opponere, proprium.’

Decoration:

Small red initials, somedecorated. Numerous drawings in the lower margins.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237223

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 312 : Walter of Chatillon, Alexandreis with commentaries.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0307]/040-002237223

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1224

Date Range:

last quarter of the 13th century or 1st quarter of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 220 x 150 (variable) mm (in one column).

Foliation: ff. i + 174 (ff. i + 1 are paper flyleaves; f. 174 is a pastedown)

Script: Gothic

Binding: Pre-1600. Italian 15th-century binding of brown leather over woodenboards, tooled and stamped; title on fore-edge. Very small parchment pastedownsunder later endpaper containing portions of a 12^th-centurymanuscript showing Genesis 1: 1-5.

Custodial History:

Origin: France(?)

Provenance:

Barthelemy Texier,general of the Domincans (active 1426 to 1449), (inscription, f. 2r).

Inscribed ‘Explicit 1493’ (f. 93r, lower margin;inscription in humanistic script dated 1493, f. 77r).

Inscribed in a 17th century (?) hand: ‘Isteliber est conventus Wiennensis ordinis predicatorum in Austria’ (f. 2); seealso Ward, Catalogue of Romances I p. 101; and 'Liber iste est . . . Ordinispraedicatorum in Austria' (f. 94, lower margin).

Abraham Gronovius (b. 1695, d. 1775),classical scholar, his sale, at Haak & Comp., Leiden 30 May - 3 June, 1785, lot. 20 (cf. note: ‘Comparavi huncCodicem ex Bibl. Gronoviana Vid. Catal. Bibl. Gronov. Codd. MSS. Lugd. Bat.1785. pag 26. Num. 20’, inside upper cover, see Ward): bought by Pieter Bondam.

Pieter Bondam, (b. 1727, d. 1800), classical scholar, (Inscribed: ‘Petri Bondam. 1785’ ,inside upper cover); his sale, at Wild, ALtheer & Van Der Aa, Utrecht, 15 October 1800, lot. 35.

Unidentified owner 'W. S', Inscribed ‘WS. 1803’ and with shelfmark orprice? in pencil in a nineteenth century hand ‘3.3.0’ (f. 2r). (Another‘W.S’/S.W’ manuscript is Phillipps 8314 (Sotheby’s 30 November 1976 lot 860).For another manuscript owned by both Bondam and ‘W.S 1803’ see Add MS 23891).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D.,classical scholar.Charles Parr Burney, his son, (inscribed in pen‘E Libris Caroli Parr Burney, 1818’, f. 2r).

Acquired by the British Museum as part ofBurney's library from Charles Parr Burney in 1818.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for thismanuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1513&CollID=18&NStart=312

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscriptsin The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, partII: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 86.

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogueof Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols(London: Longmans, 1883-1910), 1,

H. L. D. Ward, 101-02.W. H. James Weale and Lawrence Taylor, EarlyStamped Bookbindings in the British Museum (London: British Museum,1922), no. 384.

C. H. Kneepkens and F. P. Van Oostrom,‘Maerlants Alexanders geesten en de Alexandreis:een terreinverkenning’, De Nieuwe Taalgids 69 (1976), 483-500(p. 489, ns 26, 28).

Galteri de Castellione: Alexandreis, ed. by Marvin L. Colker, Thesaurus Mundi, 17 (Padua:Antenore, 1978), p. xxxiv.

Telfryn Pritchard, ‘Three Oxford AlexandreisManuscripts’, Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative auxmanuscrits, 34 (1980), 261-68 (p. 268).

David Townsend, ‘Michi Barbaries IncognitaLinguae’: Other voices and other visions in Walter of Chatillon’sAlexandreis’ Allegorica, 13 (1992), 21-37 (p. 22).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Bondam, Pieter, 1727-1800
Gronovius, Abraham, of Leiden, librarian, 1695-1775
Texier, Barthelemy, 15th century
Walter of Châtillon, fl 1170-1180,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000079802030,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/100212859