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Burney MS 324

Record Id:

040-002237235

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000174

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 324

Title:

John of Damascus, Expositionof the Orthodox Faith

Scope & Content:

A 13th-century English copy of John of Damascus’s seminal work Exposition of the Orthodox Faith translated into Latin by Burgundino da Pisa.

ff. 1-33v: John of Damascus, De fide orthodoxa (in Latin by Burgundino da Pisa), begins ‘Quoniam incomprehensibilis est Deus, Deum nemo vidit unquam, nisi unigenitus filius, qui est in sinu Patris, ipse enarravit. Ineffabilis igitur est Deus et incomprehensibilis...’, ends‘...ab ipso est gaudium fructificantes. Amen.’

Decoration:

1 large initial in blue with red and blue flourishing (f. 2r). Small initials alternately blue with red flourishing, or vice versa. Marginal ink drawings (e.g. ff. 24r, 25r, 26v).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237235

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 324 : John of Damascus, Exposition__NEWLINE__of the Orthodox Faith

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0319]/040-002237235

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1250

End Date:

1299

Date Range:

2nd half of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 215 x 155 mm (text space 155 x 100 mm in two).

Foliation: ff. vi + 47 (ff. i-vi, 34-47 are paper flyleaves)

Script: Gothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of blind-tooled brown leather.

Custodial History:

England, Central? (Oxford?)

Provenance:

Unidentified Oxfordowner, second half of the 13th century: cf. marginal glosses and chapter numbering in arabic numerals.

Hannibal Gamon (bap. 1582, d. 1650/51), Church of England clergyman: inscribed'Hannibal Gamon. Tandem -- D.O.M.' (f. 1r); Gammon aided Richard, 1st BaronRobartes, in collecting the library at Lanhydrock, near Bodmin; fragments fromhis own collection are Oxford, Bodleian, MS. Lat. misc. b. 17.

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=1514&CollID=18&NStart=324

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. 89.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Burgundio of Pisa, 1110-1193,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000108826956
John of Damascus, Saint, c 676-749,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000448837889