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Burney MS 352

Record Id:

040-002237273

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000190

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 352

Title:

Lorenzo Valla, OnElegance in Latin

Scope & Content:

Contents:

ff. 2-149: LorenzoValla, De elegantia linguae Latinae imperfect(Book I-III. 61), interrupting at “culpam in te ibi omnem”. (as publishedLorenzo Valla, Elegantiarum libri sex,(Paris, Collin, 1527), pp. 1-202.)

Decoration: Large initials, most simple penwork initials inred or dark brown ink; two decorated with penwork ornamentation including humanfaces (ff. 2r, 4r), many not completed.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237273

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 352 : Lorenzo Valla, On__NEWLINE__Elegance in Latin

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0347]/040-002237273

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1473

End Date:

1473

Date Range:

1473

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Paper. Watermark of scales in a circle (f. 1), similarto C. M. Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marquesdu papier dès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols(Amsterdam: Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 2490 (dated 1467 toBavaria).

Dimensions: 300 x 215 mm (text space 200 x 125 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. iii + 149 (ff. i-iii and 147-149 are paper flyleaves).

Script: Gothic cursive.

Binding: Post-1600 binding. Light brown leather, 18th century, rebacked; bordertooled in gold.

Custodial History:

Origin:Germany or Austria.

Provenance:

Formerly bound with Burney137, 265 and 272, which have similar scripts and the same annotator; one of thetexts in Burney 137 was written by 'Bolfgangus' (?) in 1473 (f. 60r), and Burney272 includes a charter in German dated Melk, Saint George's day 1399.

Included in the anonymous sale ‘A gentleman oftaste: Manuscripts etc. purchased on late tour of the Continent’ 1 May 1804,lot 69, (bound with Burney 137, 272, and 352, when the order of texts wasVergil, Cicero, Terence, Valla), bought by Burney.

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 thismanuscript; see the Catalogue of Illuminated Manuscripts: https://www.bl.uk/catalogues/illuminatedmanuscripts/record.asp?MSID=1493&CollID=18&NStart=352

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), p. 94.

G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of MedievalLatin Grammatical Manuscripts, ed. by Jan Pinborg, Grammatica Speculativa:Sprachtheorie und Logik des Mittelalters, 4 (Stuttgart: Frommann-Holzboog,1981), p. 115, no. 149.97.

Josef L. Jsewijn – Gilbert Tournoy, 'Un primo censimento dei manoscritti e delleedizioni a stampa degli Elegantiarum linguae latinae libri sex diLorenzo Valla', Humanistica Lovaniensia, 18(1969), 25-41 (p. 29).

Josef L. Jsewijn, 'Gilbert Tournoy, 'Nuovi contributi per l'elenco dei manoscritti e delle edizioni delleElegantiae di Lorenzo Valla”, HumanisticaLovaniensia, 20 (1971), 1-3 (p.1. With erroneous label of the manuscript as “Burneiana 353” in the corrections.)

Paul Oskar Kristeller, Iter Italicum. Afinding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscriptsof the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: WarburgInstitute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britainto Spain (1989), p. 134.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Valla, Lorenzo, Italian humanist, c 1407-1457

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 137
Burney MS 265
Burney MS 272