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Burney MS 351

Record Id:

040-002237272

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x00018f

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 351

Title:

Collection of Saints’ Lives with works ofJacques de Vitry

Scope & Content:

Collection of SaintsLives, including saints (Medard, Remaclus and Hubert) popular in the Maastricht-Liègearea, interspersed with works by Jacque de Vitry, canon in Liège.

Contents:

ff. 1r-10v : SulpiciusSeverus, Life of Saint Martin of Tours,(Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, number5610)

ff. 10v-15r: SulpiciusSeverus, Letters on Martin of Tours,

ff. 10v-12r: Epistola ad Eusebium presbyterum

ff. 12r-13r: Epistola ad Aurelium diaconum

ff. 13r-15r: Epistola ‘ad Bassulam socrum suam de transitu BeatiMartini.’

ff. 15r-38r: SulpiciusSeverus, Dialogues on the Life of SaintMartin of Tours, Books 1-3

ff. 38r-39: ConversioOthgeri militis ( BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 2831)

ff. 39-40r: Fivemiracles extracted from writings of Peter Damian

f. 39: Two companions in Bologna (extract from Opusculum 36, printed in Patrologia Latina 145, 615)

f. 39v: A philosopher falls into ditch (printed in Patrologia Latina 145, 615)

ff. 39v-40r: Prince of Benevento sees an angel (extract from Opusculum20, printed in Patrologia Latina 145, 452)

f. 40: An abbot has a lamprey (printed in PatrologiaLatina 145, 448)

f. 40: Christ appears to a thief (extract from Opusculum 42, printed in Patrologia Latina 145, 671).

ff. 40r-46v: Life ofPope St Gregory the Great (BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 3639)

ff. 47r-54v: Life ofSt Ambrose by Paulinus ( BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 377)

ff. 54v-56v: Life ofSt Medard by Venantius Fortunatus (BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 5864)

ff. 56v-65: Life of StRemaclus (Bibliotheca HagiographicaLatina, number 7113) with his miracles (from f. 58r, begins 'Post exitum gloriosissimi…')

ff. 65v-73v: Life ofSt Hubert (Bibliotheca HagiographicaLatina, number 3994)

ff. 73v-92r: Life ofSt Anthony the Great by Athanasius of Alexandria in the Latin translation ofEvagrius of Antioch (BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 609)

ff. 92r-98v: Life ofSt Servatius, begins ‘Ad illuminandumhumanum genus multas in hoc mundospirituales lucernas.’ (Bibliotheca Hagiographica Latina, number7617)

ff. 98v-102v:Translation of the Relics of St Servatius, begins‘Post huius obitum Huni, subversis multis Gallie urbibus, civitatem quoque Tungrium diruere.’ ends‘…novissimus omnium beatus Hubertus.Nunc vero de beati secunda translatione Servatii pauca perstringamus.’ (Bibliotheca HagiographicaLatina, number 7620)

ff. 102v-110r: SecondTranslation of the Relics of St Servatius, begins ‘Karolo Magno monarchiam regni gubernante, Sarracenorum phalanges...’ ends ‘...Dei haec operantismagnificentiam universaliter laudemus,cui sit…’ (Bibliotheca HagiographicaLatina, number 7621)

ff. 110v-111r: Narratio patriarchae Hierosolymitani, (‘RelatioIerosolimitani Patriarchae Romano Pontifici de transmarinis principibus Saladinoet Sephedino et de variis eventibus Christianorum, et proeliis contra perfidamgentem Sarrachenorum.’) Prologue, begins ‘Dominus Papa Innocentius bonae memoriaevolens mores scire terrarum...’ Text, begins ‘Duo fuerunt fratres Saladinus et Sephedinus.’ ends ‘…valetenim plusquam triginta milia sarratorum.’ (printed in E. Martène and U.Durand (eds.), Thesaurus novusanecdotorum, vol. 3 (Paris, 1717), cols. 267-75.)

ff. 111r-120r: Pseudo-Jacques Vitry, HistoriaHierosolimitana Abbreviata,‘Book III’,

ff. 120v-123v: Jacques Vitry, Epistola VIb-VIIb, printed in Lettres de Jacques de Vitry: 1160/1170-1240,évêque de Saint-Jean d'Acre,ed. by R. B. C. Huygens (Leiden: Brill, 1960), pp. 123-53.

ff. 129r-130v: ‘Dedistantiis locorum terre transmarine,’ begins.‘A Jerusalem usque Achon tres sunt diaetae, et usque Damascum similiter tres...’ ends‘…et ad minus geminum fetum proferunt.’.

ff. 130v-134r: Life ofSt Paul the Hermit by Jerome (BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 6596)

ff. 134r-144v: Life ofSt Hilarion by Jerome (BibliothecaHagiographica Latina, number 3879)

Decoration: Diagram ofred circles with green and red dots of the holy kinship (f. 110r). Large andsmall red or green initials, for ff. 44-91 with penwork decoration in the othercolour or in both colours, and from f. 120v of mainly red only.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237272

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 351 : Collection of Saints’ Lives with works of__NEWLINE__Jacques de Vitry

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0346]/040-002237272

Container:

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Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1225

End Date:

1249

Date Range:

2nd quarter of the 13th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 300 x 205 mm (text space 230 x 155 mm in twocolumns).

Foliation: ff. i + 146 (ff. i and 146 are parchment flyleaves; ff. 145 is anineteenth-century paper flyleaf).

Script: Gothic, written above top line.

Binding: BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1957.

Custodial History:

Origin:Netherlands, S. or France, N. W.

Provenance:

Near-contemporary erased inscription at the end of the manuscript: 'liber .. .ri' (f. 144r ).

Phillip Cateret Webb:possibly his sale, 25 February 1771 lot 2838 (with a note that the manuscripthad belonged to Lord Somers).

Anthony Askew (bap. 1722, d. 1774), physicianand book collector: possibly sold in his sale, 7 March 1785 lot 528, bought byLeathes for 18s.

Leathes: possibly sold in his sale, 27 October1796.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D.,classical scholar.

Acquired by the British Museum as part ofBurney'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=1497&CollID=18&NStart=351

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscriptsin The British Museum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts (London: British Museum, 1834-1840 ), I, partII: The Burney Manuscripts (1840), pp. 93-94.

H. L. D. Ward and J. A. Herbert, Catalogueof Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols(London: British Museum, 1883-1910), III, pp. 347-48.

Lettres de Jacques de Vitry: 1160/1170-1240,évêque de Saint-Jean d'Acre, ed. byR. B. C. Huygens (Leiden: Brill, 1960), pp. 24-5 (as ‘L’).

John Frederick Hinnebusch, ‘Extant Manuscriptsof the Writings of Jacques de Vitry’ Scriptorium: Revue internationaledes études relative aux manuscrits, 51 (1997), 156-64 (p. 159).

Lettres de la Cinquième Croisade, ed. by R. B. C. Huygens, trans. by G. Duchet-Suchaux(Turnhout: Brepols, 1998), p. 13 (as ‘L’).

JeanDonnadieu, ‘Narratio patriarcae. Origine et fortuned'un récit sur le Proche-Orient musulman vers 1200’, Le Moyen Âge, 124 (2018), 283-305 (p. 297.)

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Askew, Anthony, physician and book collector, 1722-1774,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000061332085,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/60017882
Jacques de Vitry, Bishop of Acre, c 1170-1240,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000109230986
Leathes, Carteret