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Burney MS 344

Record Id:

040-002237265

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000188

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 344

Title:

Prosper of Aquitaine

Scope & Content:

f. 1r: Introductory Epigram to Prosper (Haec Augustini ex sacris epigraimnata dictis), cf. PL 51, 51C; Riese (1906), 493a; Schaller & Könsgen (1977), num. 5836.

f. 1r: Prosper of Aquitaine: Preface to his Epigrams on the Words of St Augustine (Dum sacris mentem placet exercere loquelis), cf. PL 51, 498; Schaller & Könsgen (1977), num. 4055.

f. 1r-22r: Prosper of Aquitaine: Epigrams on the Words of St Augustine; PL 51, 500-532; Horsting (2016), pp. 77-156; Schaller & Könsgen (1977), num. 10253.

ff. 22r-23v: Prosper of Aquitaine: Exhortation to his Wife (Age iam precor mearum comes in remota rerum); PL 51, 611-616; PL 61, 737-740; Hartel (1894), 344-348; Schaller & Könsgen (1977), num. 458. Santelia (2009), pp. 56-64.

Very close in script, decoration, and layout to Burney 246; perhaps by the same scribe and rubricator. Formerly bound with Burney 246, 285, 295, 341, and 357 (see Neil R. Ker, ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly , 12 (1938), 130-35 (pp. 134-35) and Burney 357, f. 24v, for a list of contents of the composite manuscript; Burney 246 is inscribed ‘Seduli(us) & p(ro)sp(er). Glosati’ in a formal script (f. 1, upper margin).

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237265

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 344 : Prosper of Aquitaine

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0339]/040-002237265

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1100

End Date:

1199

Date Range:

12th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 210 mm x 120 mm (170 mm x 105 mm).

Foliation: ff. xiv + 32 (ff. i-xiv and 24-32 are paper flyleaves).

Script: Protogothic. Extensive glosses on the margin for all poems and many interlinear notes.

Decoration: Small red initials, some decorated with simple patterns.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England or France.

Provenance:

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Thame, Oxfordshire (inscription, f. 1r; see also Ker 1964, p. 188).

William Forrest, according to Ker, the vicar of Bledlow, near Thame, in 1556 (see Ker 1938, pp. 134-35 and see Burney MS 357, f. 24v inscription ‘liber Guilielmi fforresti’). (See also Emden 1974, pp. 209-10, who describes Forrest as a canon of Oseney Cathedral, Oxford, and afterwards rector of Bledlow and chaplain to Queen Mary).

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, [http://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1507&CollID=18&NStart=344]

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: The British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), p. 92.

W. von Hartel, Sancti Pontii Meropii Paulini Nolani Carmina, [CSEL 30] (Vienna: Tempsky, 1894), pp. 344-348.

A. Riese, Anthologia Latina, Part I, fasc. 2 (Leipzig, 1906), num. 493a.

N. R. Ker, ‘Membra disiecta’, British Museum Quarterly, 12 (1938), pp. 130-135 (pp. 134-135).

D. N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain, Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, MI, Cistercian Publications, 1992), pp. 117-118.

D. Schaller, E. Könsgen, Initia carminum Latinorum saeculo undecimo antiquiorum. Bibliographisches Repertorium für die lateinische Dichtung der Antike und desfrüheren Mittelalters, (Gottingen 1977/2005).

S. Santelia, Prospero d'Aquitania: Ad coniugem suam. In appendice: Liber epigrammatum. Studi latini 68. (Napoli: Loffredo editore), 2009 (MS not mentioned)

A. G. A. Horsting, Prosper Aquitanus. Liber epigrammatum, Corpus Scriptorum Ecclesiasticorum Latinorum 100, (Berlin: De Gruyter), 2016 (MS not mentioned).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 285
Burney MS 295
Burney MS 341