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Burney MS 357

Record Id:

040-002237278

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100000001311.0x000195

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Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 357

Title:

Theological and devotional miscellany

Scope & Content:

A composite miscellany of three parts with theological and devotional texts, all originating from the same twelfth-century manuscript belonging to the Cistercian abbey of Thame Park.

Contents:

ff. 1r-2r: Mico Centulensis, Opus prosodiacum (imperfect: the florilegium ends in the letter 'C').

f. 2v: De quindecim signis ante diem judicii, attributed to Jerome, 'Ieronimus in annalibus hebreorum de xv. signis dierum precedentium diem iudicii'.

f. 3r: Eugenius II of Toledo, De decem plagis Egipti, 'Prima plaga egipti limphas in sanguine' (imperfect: breaks off in description of the second plague).

f. 3r: Hildebert of Lavardin, five-line poem on the plagues of Egypt, 'Prima rubens unda . rane tabesque secunda'.

f. 3r: Excerpts from Bede the Venerable, De Temporum Ratione, 'de arborum quoque internis'.

f. 3v: A prayer in two columns, 'Iuste iudex Ihesu Christe rex regum et domine'.

f. 4v: Verses on mankind's soul, body, and mind: 'Intellectus dicitur in fronte esse. Memoria in cerebro'.

f. 4v: An etymological explanation of the names of the five rivers of the underworld in Greek mythology, 'Nomina Humorum infernalium: Cochitus, Stix, Acherons, Flegeton, Lechen'.

f. 4v: A list of the names of God, 'Nomina Dei'.

ff. 5r-11v: Anselm of Cantebury, De conceptu virginali et originali peccato (imperfect: ends in chapter 11).

ff. 12r-12v: Sygerius Lucanus, 'Versus Sygerii Lucani in sanctorum laudem monachorum'.

ff. 13r-15r: Augustine Hibernicus, De mirabilibus sacrae scripturae, Book I, Chapter VI and VII (ends imperfect) on the deluge, 'de eruptione diluvii ita refertur: Rupti sunt omnes fontes abissi magne, et kataracte celi aperti sunt.'

ff. 15v-16r. A hymn, ‘Amor Patris et filii veri splendour,’ apparently for Whit-Sunday; followed by a ‘Benedicamus Domino.’ Includes music notation for two singers: neumes on a double stave of eight lines with C clefs and vertical strokes to align both parts.

f. 16v: a sequence of references for liturgical prayers, including a prayer for St Juliane ('beate iuliane').

f. 16v: A prayer dedicated to the Virgin Mary, 'Deus amator omnium bonorum, meritis Dei genetricis Marie et omnium sanctorum'. The prayer also invokes St Julian, Bishop of Mans ('pius iulianus confessor').

ff. 17r-23v: Hugh of St Victor, Institutiones In Decalogum Legis Dominicae, Chapter VI and VII (incomplete).

f. 24r: Hugh of St Victor, Soliloquium de Arrha Animae (excerpt).

f. 24r: Imperfect and partially legible excerpt from Bede the Venerable, In proverbia salomonis libros III, 'Sobrietas servat memoriam'.

f. 24v, Ownership note and table of contents, 'Liber sancte marie de Thama'.

Decoration:

Small initials in brown or red ink.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-002237278

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 357 : Theological and devotional miscellany

Contains:

Burney MS 357, ff. 1-4 :
Burney MS 357, ff. 5-12 : ff. 5-11: Anselm of Canterbury, De Conceptu Virginali (Imperfect: chapter 1-11).

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Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0352]/040-002237278

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

A parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1150

End Date:

1200

Date Range:

c 1150 - c 1200

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: paper (ff. i-xi, 4*-4********, 12*-12********, 16*-16*********, 25-31) and parchment (ff. 1-4, 5-12, 13-16, 17-24). The parchment folios are also paginated (probably by Charles Burney), but the page numbers have been crossed out.

Dimensions: 210 x 120 mm (text space: 145 x 85 mm)

Foliation: xi + 31 ( + 24 modern paper leaves: ff. 4*-4********, ff. 12*-12********, ff. 16*-16********); an unfoliated paper stub after f. 28.

Script: Protogothic.

Binding: Post-1600. Brown polished leather binding typical of those bought by Burney at the ’Sicily’ sale in 1817.

Custodial History:

The Cistercian abbey of St Mary, Thame, Oxfordshire: a twelfth-century table of contents lists 7 items of Burney 357 with the inscription: 'Liber sancte marie de Thama' (f. 24v). According to Neil Ker (Ker, 'Membra Disiecta', 1938) the manuscript consists of detached sections of a single volume of 122 leaves that was written in the middle and second half of the twelfth century.

William Forrest (fl. 1581), Catholic priest and poet, and vicar of Bledlow near Thame in 1556: his name inscribed on f. 24r: 'liber guilielmi fforresti'.

Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D. D., classical scholar: other sections can be identified in Burney MS 246, 285, 295, 341 and 344; Burney inserted sets of lined paper leaves (with a watermark dated to '1803') before, between and after the separate booklets. 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), pp. 96-97.

Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1906-1965), I, 252.

Robin Flower, ‘Popular Science in Mediaeval Ireland’, Eriu, 60 (1921), 61-67.

Neil Ker, 'Membra Disiecta', The British Museum Quarterly, 12:4 (1938), 130-35 (pp. 134-35).

M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi hispanorum, pars prior, Acta Salmanticensia: Filosofia y Letras, 13: 1 (Salamanca: University de Salamanca,1958), no. 202.

Manuscripts of Polyphonic Music: 11th - Early 14th Century, ed. by Gilbert Reaney, Répertoire international des sources musicales, BIV 1 (Munich: Henle, 1966), no. Lo 357, pp. 493-94.

B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Éditions du centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), I, 460 no. C. 87, 573 no. C.54; II (1985), 44 no. C.75, 87 no. C.7, 100 no. C.1, 144, no. C.65, 541 no. C 50, 730 no. C.95, 855 no. C. 28.

David N. Bell, An Index of Authors and Works in Cistercian Libraries in Great Britain , Cistercian Studies Series, 130 (Kalamazoo, Michigan: Cistercian Publications, 1992), pp. 27, 59, 77, 104, 113, 134-35, 204, 215, 221-22.

Birger Munk Olsen, 'The Cistercian and Classical Culture', in La réception de la littérature classique au Moyen Age (IXe-XIIe siècle) (Copenhagen: Museum Tuscalum Press, 1995), 95-131 (pp. 107, 128).

Richard Gameson, The Manuscripts of Early Norman England (c. 1066-1130)(Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999), no. 363.

Mediaeval Latin Texts and Their Transmission, ed. by Paolo Chiesa and Lucia Castaldi (Florence: SISMEL, 2004), p. 278.

Digital Image Archive of Medieval Music, [http://www.diamm.ac.uk] [accessed 08 June 2010].

Harald Anderson, The Manuscripts of Statius, 3 vols (revised edition: Arlington, Virginia, 2009), I, p. 197, no. 298.

Paul Antony Hayward, 'The Earls of Leicester, Sygerius Lucanus and the Death of Seneca: Some Neglected Evidence for the Cultural Agency of the Norman Aristocracy', Speculum, 91:2 (2016), 328-55 (esp. 331-35).

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

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Related Material:

Description from Augustus Hughes-Hughes, Catalogue of Manuscript Music in the British Museum, vol. 1 (London: British Museum, 1906), p. 252:

'ff. 15b, 16. Sequence, ‘Amor Patris et Filii,’ apparently for Whit-Sunday; followed by a ‘Benedicamus Domino.’ It is set for 2 voices, the music being expressed by roughly written square and diamond-shaped notes on a double stave of 8 lines with the C signature.'

Related Archive Descriptions:

Burney MS 285
Burney MS 295
Burney MS 341