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Burney MS 348
- Record Id:
- 040-002237269
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00018c
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 348
- Title:
- Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea
- Scope & Content:
- Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea with prologue (f. 2) and list of chapters (ff. 2v-3)Decoration: red and blue penwork initials.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237269 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 348 : Jacobus de Voragine, Legenda Aurea - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0343]/040-002237269
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1300
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 165 x 110 mm (text space 115 x 75 mm).
Foliation: ff. 266 (1 unfoliated parchment flyleaf at the beginning and 2 at the end of the volume).
Script: Gothic cursive (Anglicana). A later hand (15th-century) added page numbers on the upper corner of leaves and occasional notes on margins (e. g. f. 31). Earlier page numbers on the lower corners of folios from hand of scribe or rubricator.
Binding: Post-1600. White calf.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: England.
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:
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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 366.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Jacobus de Voragine, chronicler and archbishop of Genoa, c 1230-1298