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Burney MS 314
- Record Id:
- 040-002237225
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00016a
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 314
- Title:
- Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi
- Scope & Content:
- Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi I-IV. (attributed to Johannes Gerson b. 1363, d. 1429) Tit. Incipit libellus devotus et utilis compositus a domino Johanne Gersem cancellario Parisiensi.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237225 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 314 : Thomas à Kempis, De imitatione Christi - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0309]/040-002237225
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1441
- End Date:
- 1450
- Date Range:
- middle of the 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Paper. Watermark close to Briquet 2641 from the first half of the 15th century, Italy
Dimensions: 270 x 180 mm (text space 180 x 115 mm in one column).
Foliation: ff. 86 (f.1 is a modern paper leaf with notes on Gerson by Nurney, f. 86 is Bureny's table of contents. 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 2 at the end of the volume). First folio with list of chapters is missing from the beginning, impression of rubrics on f. 2r.
Script: Humanistic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Italy. Cf. watermarks and acquisition at Pinelli Sale.
Provenance:
Library of Maffeo Pinelli (b. 1736, d. 1785), cf. Burney's note on f. 1 about the book acquired at the Pinelli Sale sale 2 March 1789. num. 12831.
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.
- Publications:
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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.
J. Williams, 'Manuscript Copies of "De Imitiatione Christi" in the British Museum', Notes and Queries 12 (1861), pp. 281-282.
P. E. Puyol, Descriptions bibliographiques des manuscrits et des principales éditions du livre De Imitatione Christi (Paris: V. Retaux 1898), p. 119.
J. E. Geoffrey De Montmorency, Thomas à Kempis: his age and book (London: Methuen & Co 1906), pp. 50, 110-114, 167, 198.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Gerson, Johannes, Cancellarius Parisiensis
Kempis, Thomas à, mystic and writer, c 1380-1471