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Burney MS 315

Record Id:

040-002237226

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00016b

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 315

Title:

Remy of Auxerre and other Latin grammatical texts

Scope & Content:

ff. 2-6: Summa de regiminibus. Inc. 'Quoniam ex significatione verbi cognita maxime procedit cognicio regiminis.' Expl. 'Ego lego et Virgilius, tu legis et Appollonius, Apollonius scribit et ego, Tullius scribit et tu.' ff. 6r-6v: Excerpta Grammatica ex Guidonis Summa de dictamine. Inc. 'Nota secundum Guidonem in summa sua de dictamine, quod participium semper debet poni.' Expl. .'..ad quare ideo, ad quia idcirco, ad totum quotum, ad talem qualem, etc.' 'Explicit Gramatica Guidonis.' ff. 8-15: Remy of Auxerre, Commentary on Donatus's Ars Minor. 'Remigius super Donatum.' Inc. 'Iste titulus varie invenitur in multis codicibus, in quibusdam enim ars, in aliis reperitur edicio.' Expl.. 'Pape, graecus, interjectio est admirantis, inde et papa dicitur apostolicus et interpretatur admirabilis, vel pater patrum, et atat est interjectio metuentis.' 'Explicit liber beati Remigii de expositione Donati, exposuit enim Donatum, ut discentes libri expositi textum per expositionem evidenter percipiant intellectum.' ff. 15-16v: Tractatus de soloecismis. Inc. 'Quatuor quidem sunt quae docent discentes grammaticam vitare solocismum.' Expl. '...quanquam per accusativum me- diante hac prsepositione inter, ut diversum illi, et ab illo, et diversi inter se.'Apparently formerly bound with Burney 236 and 306: the script and decoration of all three are the same or very similar; the leaf dimensions of this manuscript and 236 are the same; the leaf dimensions of Burney 306 and the flyleaves of Burney 236 are the same; the flyleaf that formerly faced Burney 306, f. 1 (now bound upside-down as Burney 306, f. 20) lists the contents as 'Grammatica Guidonis. Grammatica Prisciani. Ovidus de mirabilibus', now in this manuscript and Burney 236.

Decoration: Small red initials, with pen-flourishing in the margins. Line fillers of red pen-flourishing, sometimes with zoomorphic elements such as bird's heads. Red pen marginalia of faces, manicula, and various animals and grotesques.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237226

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 315 : Remy of Auxerre and other Latin grammatical texts

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0310]/040-002237226

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1300

End Date:

1349

Date Range:

1st half of the 14th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 265 x 175 mm (text space 215 x 135 mm) in two columns.

Foliation: ff. iii + 27 (ff. i-iii, 1-1a-1h, and 17-27 are paper flyleaves; paper leaves are also interspersed between each folio as ff. 6^a-6^g; 7-7^d,7; 8^a;9^a; 10^a; 11^a; 12^a; 13^a-13^b; 14a; 15^a;).

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Light brown calf, rebacked.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

? Charles Fotherby (b. 1674, d. 1720), Capt. RN, MP, nephew of the Rev. Charles Fotherby (d. 1677), fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge (inscription, ‘Cha. Fotherby given by Char. Fo Esq’, Burney 302, f. 1, lower border). See Burke’s Genealogical and Heraldic History of the Landed Gentry, ed. by Peter Townend, 18th edn, 3 vols (London: Burke's Peerage Limited, 1972), III, 70-71, under Blake of Barham Court, for an outline of the family descent.

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, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1580&CollID=18&NStart=315].

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. G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, ed. by Jan Pinborg, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog, 1981), p. 115, no. 149.92. 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: Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 306