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Burney MS 333

Record Id:

040-002237244

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00017d

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 333

Title:

Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Scope & Content:

Vallumbrosan Breviary with miniatures in the style of Boccardino il Vecchio.

Contents:

pp. 1-127: Psalms, with antiphons. ('Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose').

pp. 127-134: Canticles, etc.: Te deum, Benedicite, Magnificat, Benedictus, Nunc dimittis, Gloria in excelsis, and the Apostles’, Nicene, and Athanasian Creeds.

pp. 134-137: Litany of saints, including ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’ and Reparata; followed by petitions and five collects.

pp. 139-185: Sunday feasts from Advent to Passion Sunday.

pp. 185-195: Hymnal.

pp. 196-198: blank

pp. 199-469: Sanctorale.

pp. 470-572: Common of saints.

Decoration: 4 full borders inhabited by putti, prophets, and other Renaissance motifs, in colours and gold (pp. 1: King David as a youth and as an adult, p. 139, p. 199, p. 470). 34 large historiated initials, in colours and gold (pp. 139, 199, 470), with partial borders (pp. 121: a figure crying to God illuminating Ps 141 “Voce mea”; p. 147: a bishop saint, pp. 214, 238, 246 (2x), 269, 270, 276 (2x), 287, 311, 321, 326, 327, 334, 345, 355, 357, 362, 369, 379, 391, 401, 407, 422, 430, 433, 442, 444, 464). 1 large historiated initial, in colours and gold, unfinished (p. 205). 5 large initials, in colours and gold, with a partial border (pp. 185, 206, 224, 334, 507). 3 bas-de-page miniatures, in colours and gold, each with a partial border (pp. 224, 269, 276). Small initials alternately red pen-flourished in blue, or vice versa. One-line initials alternately plain red or blue. According to the unpublished notes of A. C. de la Mare at the Bodleian Library, illuminated in the style of Boccardino il Vecchio (b. 1460, d. 1529)

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237244

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 333 : Breviary, Vallumbrosan Use

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0328]/040-002237244

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:

last quarter of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 137 x 95 mm (text space 80 x 60 mm in two columns).

Foliation: pp. 572 (3 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning, and 2 at the end. 1 leaf is excised after p. 532, a bifolium is inserted before an incomplete quire ?6-1 (pp. 523-532, 6th leaf excised after p. 532).

Script: Gothic, written with vertical and horizontal catchwords.

Binding: Post-1600. French red leather over pasteboards; marbled endpapers; gilt edges; 18th century.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy, Central (Florence)

Provenance:

Made for the Vallumbrosan monastery of St. Salvio, possibly of Florence: rubric 'Incipit psalterium componitum secundum morem et ordinem Vallis Umbrose' (p. 1); the litany includes Salvius, ‘Sancte pater Benedicte’, John (Gualbert?), and Reparata; Benedict and Salvius are emphasised in the Sanctorale (pp. 269, 407); inscribed, 17th century, ‘De s(an)c(t)o Salvio’ (p. 172).

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.

Information About Copies:

Select digital coverage available for this manuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=8248&CollID=18&NStart=333

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), pp. 90-91.

Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 296.

Giacomo Baroffio, Iter liturgicum Italicum, (CLEUP, 1999), p. 105.

Giacomo Baroffio, “Codici liturgici vallombrosani. Prospettive d'indagine”, in Giordano Monzio Compagnoni (ed.), L'Ordo Vallisumbrosæ tra XII e XIII secolo. Gli sviluppi istituzionali e culturali e l'espansione geografica (1101-1293). II Colloquio vallombrosano. Vallombrosa, 25-28 agosto 1996, Vallombrosa, 2 vols, ( Vallombrosa 1999 [2001]), vol. 1., pp. 569-584 (p. 579).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)