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Burney MS 321
- Record Id:
- 040-002237232
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000171
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 321
- Title:
- Anonymous treatise on virtues and vices.
- Scope & Content:
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ff. 1-79: "Liber quid de vitiis et virtutibus sentiendum." Prol. "Talem lectorem praesens flagitat opusculum." Inc. "Frustra conatur rei naturalis vel essenciam vel ordinem in malo invenire" Expl. " Quaerit derisor sapientiam et non invenit, doctrina autem prudentium facilis."
ff. 79-81v: "Liber de instrumentis noviciorum." Inc. "Obsecro te, quicunque sanctam conversationem virtutum gressibus a primis noviciatus rudimentis ingredi desideras." Expl. "psallentibus in medio juvencularum tympanistriarum".
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237232 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 321 : Anonymous treatise on virtues and vices. - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0316]/040-002237232
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1200
- End Date:
- 1299
- Date Range:
- 13th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 170 x 115 mm (text space 110 x 80 mm).
Foliation: ff. 82 (ff. 1; 82 are paper flyleaves. There are 4 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning and 3 at the end of the volume.).
Script: Gothic cursive. Red initials and titles at chapter headings. Marginal notes from the main hand along with annotations by another hand from the 15th century.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England. Cf. 15th-century English note on f. 6r.
Provenance:
Thomas Bryan Richards, F.S.A. (fl. 1801). Cf his note on f. 1. Sold at his sale April 1812. lot. 629.
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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A catalogue of the valuable library late the property of Thomas Bryan Richards, 1812, lot. 629.
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), pp. 86-87.
M. W. Bloomfield et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A. D. (Cambridge, Mass. 1979), p. 196. num. 2191.
R. G. Newhauser, I. P. Bejczy, A Supplement to Morton W. Bloomfield et al., 'Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1500 A.D.' (Turnhout: Brepols Publishers 2008), p. 149, num. 2191.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)