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Burney MS 330

Record Id:

040-002237241

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00017a

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 330

Title:

Collection of Grammatical and Metrical Treatises

Scope & Content:

ff. 2v-8v: Treatise on hymnological metrics (“Incipit Liber de metris himpnorum”), Inc. De metris hymnorum locuturi quia nonnulli rithmo sine metro scribi uidentur, primo videamus quid sit rithmus, et in quo differat a metro. Expl. Et nos hic finem operi nostro imponimus. petentes lectorem ut sicubi forte erraui. ipse benigne corrigat. et ueniam det. Nichil enim perfectum in humanis inuentionibus.
ff. 8v-10r: Servatus Lupus: Metrical commentary on Boethius’ De consolatione philosophiae. Inc. Quinque libros philosophicae consolationis insignis auctor Boetius xxvii varietatibus respersit carminum, ut opus hiis gracius fieret... Expl. Eiusque permixtum est. Quam uariis terras animalia permeant figuris. (Ed. Peiper (1871), pp. xxiiii-xxviiii.)
f. 10r: Paraphrase of Froumund of Tegernsee's comments on Boethius (cf. Ed. Schepps (1881), pp. 39-40).
f. 10r: Extract from the Etymologies of Isidore of Seville on metres (Etim. I, 17, 1-20 and I, 39, 5-9)
ff. 10v-16r: Collection of 38 grammatical sophisms Inc.: Ex tribu ruben xii^cim milia signati. Quaeritur de hac praepositione... Expl. et propria nomina dant intelligere locum in (!) discretione et appellatiua sine discretione. Constantinople"

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237241

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 330 : Collection of Grammatical and Metrical Treatises

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0325]/040-002237241

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1200

End Date:

1230

Date Range:

early 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 190 x 110 mm (text space 155 x 95 mm).

Foliation: ff. 16 (2 unfoliated paper flyleaves before and 7 after f. 1 which itself is a paper flyleaf, too. Additional paper leaves are bound after every folio of the volume dated 1801. 5 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the end.). Early foliation of the parchment leaves with ink from 381-410 indicating that the leaves were cut of a larger manuscript prbably by the sellers after 1801, the date of the paper they used for binding.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England or France cf. French translations in the text.

Provenance:

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:

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. 99.

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammatical Manuscripts (StuttgartBad Cannstatt, 1981), p. 115, no. 149.95

C. H. Kneepkens, Het Iudicium Constructionis. Het leerstuk van de constructio in de 2de helft van de 12de eeuw, vol. 1 (Nijmegen, 1987), p. 639.

I. Rosier, B. Roy, ‘Grammaire et Liturgie dans les “Sophismes” du XIIIe Siècle’, Vivarium 28 (1990), pp. 118-135 (p. 128, n. 31)

I. Rosier, ‘Les sophismes grammaticaux aux XIIIe siècle’, Medioevo 17 (1991), pp. 175-230 (pp. 180, 211-30).

A. Grondeux, I. Rosier-Catach (eds.), Robertus Anglicus’ Sophistria: La Sophistria de Robertus Anglicus (Paris: 2006), p. 391.

S. Ebbesen, F. Goubier, A Catalogue of 13th-Century Sophismata, 2 vols (Paris: 2010).

C. H. Kneepkens, 'The Collection of Grammatical Sophismata in MS London, BL, Burney 330. An Exploratory Study', Vivarium 53 (2015), pp. 294-332.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 224