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Burney MS 316

Record Id:

040-002237227

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00016c

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 316

Title:

Grammatical Treatise in Latin.

Scope & Content:

Anonymous, unedited grammatical treatise similar to related works byGuarino Veronese (1370-1460) and Niccolò Perotti (1429-1480), glossed inItalian. The text, known from a number of other manuscripts, all fromRenaissance Italy, is a full school-level grammatical syllabus, beginning withdiscussion of the parts of speech; continuing with syntax; Guarino’s heteroclytenouns, his orthography and his Carmina differentialia, ending with a briefsection on verbal conjugations.

Contents:

ff. 1r-111v: Anonymousgrammatical treatise, begins ‘Litteraest vox quae scribi potest individua, vel nota elementi, et velut imago quaedamvocis litteratae'.

Decoration

1 large white vineinitial in colours and gold, extending into a partial border (f. 1r),accompanied by a laurel wreath enclosing (overpainted) arms. 1 small initial ingold on coloured grounds. 2-line initials in plain blue. 1-line initials inpink ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237227

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 316 : Grammatical Treatise in Latin.

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0311]/040-002237227

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:

third quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 205 x 130 mm (text space 125 x 60 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. iv + 115 + 111* + 111** (ff. i-iv, 113-115 are paper flyleaves)

Collation: i-xi10 (ff. 1-110), xii4 (ff. 111-112).

Script: Humanistic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600. 'Sicily' binding of polished brown calf (typical ofmanuscripts bought by Burney at Sotheby's, 19 April 1817, which included bookssaid to have been imported from Sicily); gilt edges.

Custodial History:

Origin: Florence, Italy.

Provenance:

Unidentified owner:overpainted arms were perhaps paly on the dexter side (f. 1r).

? Angelo Politiano (b. 1454, d. 1494), Italianpoet, philologist, and humanist: annotated by him (see de la Mare, 1998).

Unidentified owner: arms, or, achevron gules, an ox(?) passant proper below, and threestars(?) gules above (f. 1r).

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

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

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.Giuseppe Fanchiotti, I Mss. Italiani inInghilterra 2 vols (London, 1899-1902), II, 13-14.G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of MedievalLatin Grammatical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa: Sprachtheorie undLogik des Mittelalters, ed. by Jan Pinborg, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog,1981), p. 115 no. 149.Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Afinding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscriptsof the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: TheWarburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): GreatBritain to Spain (1989), p. 133.Albinia de la Mare, 'Un "Marziale"corretto dal Poliziano', in Angelo Poliziano: Poeta, Scrittore,Filologo: Atti del Convegno internazionale di studi, Montepulciano, 3-6 novembre1994, ed. by Vincenzo Fera and Mario Martelli (Florence: Le lettere, 1998),pp. 295-321 (pp. 304-05 and pls VIII-IX).

Robert Black, Education and Society in Florentine Tuscany:Teachers, Pupils and Schools, c. 1250-1500, (Leiden: Brill, 2007), pp. 136-137.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Ambrogini, Angelo, Florentine poet and scholar; called Poliziano, 1454-1494,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000120990193