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Burney MS 354

Record Id:
040-002237275
Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
032-002236305
MDARK:
ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000192
LARK:
SLARK:
Format:
ISAD(G)
Reference (shelfmark):
Burney MS 354
Title:
Extracts from the Corpus Juris Canonici with Glossa Ordinaria
Scope & Content:
  • f. 2v: Verses, extracted from Virgil (Georgics 2.459; 3.66); Pythagoras (Carmen Aureum) etc.
  • ff. 2v-3: Copy of an order by King Henry VIII to Richard Nykke, bishop of Norwich
  • ff. 3v-4v: Verses on the calculation of Easter with prologue in prose. inc. Fistulat haec duplici celer astat glos feriendi" (Same poem in Oxford Bodelian, MS. Rawl. B. 214, f. 153 and Oxford St John's College, MS 95, f. 118v)
  • ff. 5-5v: Constitution of Henry Chichele (b. 1364, d. 1443), Archbishop of Canterbury at the provincial synod of London 1439
  • ff. 6-68: Constitutiones Clementinae with Glossa Ordinaria
  • 69-188: Liber Sextux with Glossa Ordinaria
  • ff. 188v-194: Extravagantes of Boniface VIII, Benedict XI, and Benedict XII
  • ff. 194v-195v: Extract from the Acts of the Synod of Canterbury 1295 (De applelationibus tuitoriis, ed. Acta conciliorum et epistolae decretales, ac constitutiones, vol. 7. (Paris: Typographia regia, 1714), col. 1192.)
  • f. 196: blank
  • f. 196v-197: Notes on the history of England between 1352-1392
  • f. 197v: A poem in distichs. Inc. Si tibi sponsa decens. (Ed. Andre (1892), p. 146)
  • f. 198: A poem with same beginnings. Inc. Nil valet ille labor quem praemia nulla sequuntur
  • f. 198: Another distichal poem Inc. O vos claustrales humiles with further notes on canon law
  • f. 198v: Copy of a Gloss on canon law with short poetical texts.
Collection Area:
Western Manuscripts
Project / Collection:
Burney Manuscripts
Hierarchy Record Ids:
032-002236305
040-002237275
Is part of:
Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

 

Burney MS 354 : Extracts from the Corpus Juris Canonici with Glossa Ordinaria
Hierarchy:
032-002236305[0349]/040-002237275
Container:
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Record Type (Level):
File
Extent:
Parchment codex.
Digitised Content:
Languages:
Latin
Scripts:
Latin
Start Date:
1400
End Date:
1499
Date Range:
15th century
Era:
CE
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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 155 x 110 mm (text space 105 x 80 mm in two columns with an intercolumnium of 15mm for the man text without the gloss).

Foliation: ff. 199 (3 unfoliated modern paper flyleaves at the beginning ogf the volume and 2 between f. 1 (modern flyeleaf) and f. 2. 4 unfoliated modern flyleaves at the end of the book. 1 unfoliated parchment leaf between ff. 195-196).

Script: Gothic Rotunda (main text); Gothic cursive (for gloss). Different later Gothic cursive for the additions at beginning and end of volume.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: England.

Provenance:

Richard Nix (Nykke) (b. 1447, d. 1535), Bishop of Norwich. Cf. note on f. 198v.

Richard Dykar, who received it as a present from Nix. cf. note on f. 198v.

Edward Hoby (b. 1560, d. 1617), cf. his name on f. 6r

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:

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. 95.

J. Tarrant, 'The manuscripts of the Constitutiones Clementinae, part I: Admont to Munchen,' Zeitschrift der Savigny Stiftung für Rechtsgeschichte, Kanonistische Abteilung, 70 (1984), pp. 67-133, (p. 118).

Material Type:
Archives and Manuscripts
Legal Status:
Not Public Record(s)
Names:
Clement V, Pope, c 1264-1314,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000458402117,
   see also http://viaf.org/viaf/12146574968738152511
Henry VIII, King of England and Ireland, 1491-1547,
   see also http://isni.org/isni/0000000122586127
Hoby, Edward, politician and diplomat, 1560-1617
Nykke, Richard, Bishop of Norwich