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Burney MS 349
- Record Id:
- 040-002237270
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002236305
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00018d
- LARK:
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Burney MS 349
- Title:
- Lives of Saints
- Scope & Content:
- Lives of Saints
- ff. 2-39: Life of St William of Maleval by Theobald (BHL 8293)
- ff. 39v-76v: Life of St Elisabeth of Hungary in 8 Books by Theoderic (BHL 2496)
- ff. 76v-126v: Life of St Thomas Aquinas by William of Tocco (BHL 8152-53)
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Burney Manuscripts
- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002236305
040-002237270 - Is part of:
- Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts
Burney MS 349 : Lives of Saints - Hierarchy:
- 032-002236305[0344]/040-002237270
- Container:
- View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS
- Record Type (Level):
- File
- Extent:
- Parchment codex.
- Digitised Content:
- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1375
- End Date:
- 1399
- Date Range:
- last quarter of the 14th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
-
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- User Conditions:
- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 255 x 175 mm (text space 150 x 115 mm in one column).
Foliation: ff. 126 (here f. 1 is a modern paper flyleaf with Bureny's table of contents. 3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves before and 2 after f. 1. 6 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the end of the volume).
Script: Gothic bookhand. with a cursive hand adding samples for titles on bottom of pages.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown 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.
J. V. De Groot, Het Leven van den H. Thomas van Aquino, (Utrecht: Van Rossum, 1907), p. 381.
D. D. Prümmer (ed.), 'William of Tocco, Vita S. Thomae Aquinatis', in Fontes Vitae S. Thomae Aquinatis, vol. 2. (Toulouse: Privat, 1911), p. 62.
T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores ordinis Praedicatorum Medii Aevii. vol. 2. (Romae, Istituto Storico Domenicano, 1975), p. 166. num. 1664 (with wrong folio numbers!)
Claire le Brun-Gouanvic, Ystoria sancti Thome de Aquino de Guillaume de Tocco (1323), (toronot: Pontifical Institute for Medieval Studies, 1997), p. 63.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Names:
- Aquinas, Thomas, Saint, 1225-1274,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000453792101
Elizabeth, Saint, of Hungary
Theoderic, of Apolda
William of Maleval, Saint, 1100-1157