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Burney MS 313

Record Id:

040-002237224

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000169

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 313

Title:

Gasparino Barzizza, Orthography

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2-123v: GasparinoBarzizza, Liber de orthographia, begins 'Quoniam recta scriptura quam Graeca appellatione orthographiam dicimus,proxime videtur...' ends '...Zoticus per simplicem t, quia sine aspiratione, idem quod vitalis." (printed in Gasparini Pergamensis Orthographiae liber, (Paris, 1471), ff. 1r-220r)

Decoration

1 large initial in blue and light yellow with foliate decoration, and alower border of vines and flowers, executed in pen (f. 1r). The rest of themanuscript is without illumination but with spaces and guide letters left forlarge initials

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237224

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 313 : Gasparino Barzizza, Orthography

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0308]/040-002237224

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1499

Date Range:

last quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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User Conditions:

Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 225 x 155 mm (text space 175 x 115 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. iii + 126 (ff. i-iii and 124-126 are paper flyleaves; f. 1 is aparchment flyleaf)

Collation: i-iv10 (ff. 2-41); v-viii8 (ff. 42-73); ix-xiii10 (ff. 83-123).

Script: Semi humanistic, hand of Ambroz Mihetić as noted onf. 123v: "Explicitorthographia Magistri GaspariniPergamensis eximii oratoris. Ambrosius Michetich Sibinicensis scripsit."

Binding: Post-1600. 18th century blue-green morocco, with gold tooling around theoutside of the binding and edges; marbled end papers.

Custodial History:

Origin: Croatia or Italy, N. E. (Veneto)?

Provenance:

Partly erasedinscription, in humanistic script, including 'anno domini m [obscured]' (f. 1r),possibly 'mcccclxxviij, according to the unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mareat the Bodleian Library.

Ambrosius Michetich Sibinicensis (Sebenico), inscribed: ‘Ambrosius MichetichSibinicensis scripsit’ (f. 123v).

Partly erased inscription, in humanistic script, including 'anno domini m [obscured]',possibly 'mcccclxxviij, according to the unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mareat the Bodleian Library (f. 1r, top of folio).

Armorial bookplate with crest of lion’s head erased, surrounded by the collarof the Order of the Thistle, and surmounted by the coronet of an earl (insideof upper cover).Inscribed with a price in pencil ‘2-2‘ (scribbled over) and ‘-15-‘ (f. iii recto).

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part of Burney’s library from his son CharlesParr 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=1542&CollID=18&NStart=313

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. 86.

Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-1982), I, p. 74 no. 558. G. L.

Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, ed. Jan Pinborg, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 114, no. 149.91.

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 133.

GiliolaBarbero, L'Orthographia di Gasparino Barzizza, (Messina, Centro Interdipartimentaledi Studi Umanistici, 2008), pp. 75-77.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barzizza, Gasparino, 1360-1431
Mihetic, Ambroz, 15th century