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Burney MS 329

Record Id:

040-002237240

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000179

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 329

Title:

Historical miscellany

Scope & Content:

An elegant humanistcopy of a collection of historical works dealing with Roman history.

Contents:

ff. 1r-1v: Anonymouspoem about Orosius and Justin, begins ‘Orbis terrarum metasque situsque locorumcomputat hic sancti codex luculenter Orosii....’ ends ‘...Emula namque manus sic rodere desinetillud, eius si iudex, fautor quoquediceris esse.’ (printed in Mortensen (1990), pp. 393-394.)

ff. 2r-83r: Justin’sEpitome of Pompeius Trogus, begins ‘Cummulti ex Romanis etiam consularisdignitatis uiri res romanas graeco peregrinoque...’ ends. ‘...legibus ad cultiorem vitae usum traductum in formam provinciaeredegit. Iustini Epithoma in quatragesimumquartum et ultimum Pompeii Trogi librum feliciter explicit. Deo gratias. Amen.

f. 83v:blank

ff. 84r-88v: Lombardodella Setta, Life of the Emperor Vespasian, begins ‘Nero postquam ob Cesti negligentiam in Siriam legati cum Judeismale pugnatum fuisse comperit...’ ends ‘...ut vixerat, excessit e vita inter Divosrelatus.’

ff. 88v-94v: Lombardodella Setta, Life of the Emperor Titus, begins ‘Merito pro filio pii patrisarma obtemperatura esse censebit....’ ends‘...infinitas ei gratias egit.’

f. 95r: blank

f. 95v: ‘'Respice xviij c' paru'(?) a principio deorigine cartagine(n)siu(m)’ referring to chapter 18 on f. 45v

Decoration

1 large initial in blue and red (f. 2r). 1 smaller initial in blue withred tendril penwork (f. 84r). Small initials and paraphs in blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237240

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 329 : Historical miscellany

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0324]/040-002237240

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:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper bearing watermarks that are similar to C. M.Briquet, Les Filigranes: Distionnaire historique des marques du papierdès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam:The Paper Publications Society, 1968), numbers. 2620-2682, all of which areItalian, especially those from Ferrara, Bologna, and Regio-Emilia, firstquarter of the 15th century.

Dimensions: 310 x 215 mm (text space 185 x 125 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. v + 100 (ff. i-v, 96-100 are modern paper flyleaves).

Collation: i12+1 (firstleaf added, ff. 1-13), ii-vi12 (ff. 14-73), vii12-2 (first leaf missing, lastleaf missing, probably blank; ff. 74-83), viii12 (ff. 84-95)

Script: Semi-humanistic, with rubrics in Humanistic.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of plain polished calf; marbled endpapers;inscribed on the fore-edge.

Custodial History:

Origin:Italy, North (cf. remarksabout paper watermarks)

Provenance:

Unidentified French(?)owner, second half of the 15th century: inscribed 'Respice xviij c' paru'(?) aprincipio de origine cartagine(n)siu(m)' (f. 95v, referring to chapter 18 on f.45v).

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=1469&CollID=18&NStart=329

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), pp. 89-90.

Lars Boje Mortensen, ‘Orosius and Justinus in One Volume: Post-Conquest Books across the Channel’, Cahiers del'Institut du moyen-âge grec et latin, 60 (1990), 389-99. (p. 397).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Junianus Justinus, Marcus, Mid-2nd century-Late 4th century,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000121244766,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/24616821