Hard-coded id of currently selected item: . JSON version of its record is available from Blacklight on e.g. ??
Metadata associated with selected item should appear here...
Burney MS 347
- Record Id:
- 040-002237268
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00018b
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 347
- Title:
- Collection of Saints' Lives
- Scope & Content:
- Collection of Saints Lives, composed partly from Jean de Mailly's Abbreviatio in gestis et miraculis sanctorum and the Legenda Aurea of Jacobus de Voragine with a list of chapters on ff. 1-2v.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237268 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 347 : Collection of Saints' Lives - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0347]/040-002237268
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Paper codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1400
- End Date:
- 1499
- Date Range:
- 15th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
Please request the physical items you need using the online collection item request form.
Digitised items can be viewed online by clicking the thumbnail image or digitised content link.
Readers who have registered or renewed their pass since 21 March 2024 can request physical items prior to visiting the Library by completing
this request form.
Please enter the Reference (shelfmark) above on the request form.If your Reader Pass was issued before this date, you will need to visit the Library in London or Yorkshire to renew it before you can request items online. All manuscripts and archives must be consulted at the Library in London.
This catalogue record may describe a collection of items which cannot all be requested together. Please use the hierarchy viewer to navigate to individual items. Some items may be in use or restricted for other reasons. If you would like to check the availability, contact our Reference Services team, quoting the Reference (shelfmark) above.
- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
-
Materials: Paper (with watermark of a stag with horns double outlines).
Dimensions: 275 x 190 mm (text space 190 x 135 mm in two columns with intercolumnium of 20 mm).
Foliation: ff. 287 (where f. 1-2 are parchment with the list of chapters). Contemporary foliation in right upper corner of leaves up to cclxxxix. At least 3 folios are missing from the end, cf. list of chapters (f. 2v) extending to f. cclxxxxii and being unfinished with beginnings of 3 more chapters without folio numbers.
Script: Gothic cursive.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.
- Custodial History:
-
Origin: France (cf. Provenance).
Provenance:
The library of Charles-Geneviève-Louis-Auguste-André-Timothée d'Éon de Beaumont known as the Chevalier d'Éon (b. 1728, d. 1810). Cf. note on binding and owner's note on f . 1.
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. 93.
B. Fleith, Studien zur Überlieferungsgeschichte der lateinischen Legenda aurea, (Bruxelles: Société des Bollandistes 1991), p. 153. LA 365.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Beaumont, Charles Geneviève Louis Auguste André Timothée, Chevalier, diplomat and spy, 1728-1810
Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298
Jean de Mailly, 1190-1254