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Burney MS 353

Record Id:

040-002237274

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000191

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 353

Title:

Antonius Vegnatus, On Warfare

Scope & Content:

A presentation copy ofa humanistic treatise on warfare.

Contents:

ff. 2-11: AntoniusVegnatus, De re militari. Imperfect. Dedication to Antonio Barbarigo Doge of Venice, begins 'Tanta tua est cunctis in rebus precipue inreipublicae florentissimae gubernatione…' (f. 2r), ends '…Quae te principe sublimi digna sunt.' (f. 2v). Text, begins, 'Cogitaremecum solitus, serenissime princeps mala, quae nostris…', ends '…alteram conscriptorum, tertiam reliquorum, tertia classis reliquorum.'

Decoration: 2 large initials, 1 blue, and 1 red, each on agold ground with foliate decoration around the letter (ff. 2r, 3v); the arms ofAgostino Barbarigo (f. 2r, lower margin). Small gold initials on colouredgrounds.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237274

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 353 : Antonius Vegnatus, On Warfare

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0348]/040-002237274

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

One volume

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1486

End Date:

1501

Date Range:

1486-1501

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 260 x 175 mm (text space 160 x 90 mm in onecolumn).

Foliation: ff. 17 (f. 1 is a parchment flyleaf).

Collation: i10 (ff. 2-11); iisix (ff. 12-17).

Script: Humanistic bookscript.

Binding: Pre-1600. Original gold and blind tooled and stamped red-brown leather,rebacked. The paste-downs have printed text below. Watermark, inside lower cover, oftriangular scales in a circle topped by a cross, similar to C. M.Briquet, Les Filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papierdès leur apparition vers 1282 jusqu'en 1600, A Facsimile of the 1907edition with supplementary material, ed. by Allan Stevenson, 4 vols (Amsterdam:Paper Publications Society, 1968), no. 2565 (dated 1483 to Venice), but withoutthe circle below the cross.

Custodial History:

Origin:Italy, N. E. (Venice).

Provenance:

Agostino Barbarigo, Dogeof Venice (Doge 1486 to 1501) (his arms, f. 2r, and dedication to him, ff. 2r, 3v).

Rev. Thomas Crofts (b. 1722, d. 1781) (hisinitials 'TC/E', centre of the inside upper cover): his sale, 7 April 1783 andforty-two following days, lot 8244, bought with lot 8243 by Wodhull for 12s 6d.

Michael Wodhull (b. 1740, d. 1816), bookcollector and poet (erased inscription in his format and the date 'May 27th1783', f. 1).

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=1559&CollID=18&NStart=353

Publications:

Catalogue of Manuscripts in The BritishMuseum, New Series, 1 vol. in 2 parts(London: British Museum, 1834-1840), I, part II: The Burney Manuscripts (1840),pp. 94-5.

'Codici di materia veneta nelle bibliotecheinglesi', Nuovo archivio veneto, new series. 6, 11 (1906), 171-186(pp. 177-8).

Ludwig Bertalot, Initia Humanistica Latina, vol. 1. (Tuebingen: Niemeyer, 1985), p.126. num. 42.

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. 135.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Barbarigo, Agostino, Doge of Venice, 1419-1501
Crofts, Thomas, clergyman and bibliophile, 1722-1781
Vegnati, Antonio, 15th century
Wodhull, Michael, 1740-1816,
see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000082193889,
see also http://viaf.org/viaf/38088759