Burney MS 360

A collection of popularworks on moral philosophy from Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages.

Contents:

f. 1r: blank

f. 2r: Ownershipnotes.

f. 2v: Table ofcontents

ff. 3r-37r: John ofWales, Breviloquium de quatuor virtutibusantiquorum, begins ‘Quoniammisericordia et veritas custodiunt regem. Immo quattuor virtutes cardinalesscilicet Prudentia’ ends‘…quovis permanere ego vitae. Amen’ (printed in Johannes Guallensis, Summacollationum, (Venice: G. Arrivabene, 1496), ff. 240r-59v.)

ff. 37r-42r: Pseudo-Seneca (=Martin of Braga), Formulahonestae vitae, begins ‘Quatuor virtutum species…’ ends ‘...contemnatignaviam’ (printed in Claude W. Barlow, Martini episcopi Braracensis opera omnia, (New Haven: YaleUniversity Press, 1950), pp. 237-50, cf. ClavisPatrum Latinorum, number 1080).

ff. 42r-45v: Pseudo-Seneca(=Martin of Braga), ‘De moribus’, begins ‘Omne peccatum actio est…’ ends ‘…quiid quod agit ostendit.’ (printed in E. Wölfflin, Publii Syrisententiae, (Leipzig: Teubner, 1869), pp. 136-40, cf. Clavis Patrum Latinorum, number 1090).

ff. 45v-49v Guillaumeof Gap, Disputation of Secundus thePhilospher and Emperor Hadrian, begins ‘Secundus philosophus ab aliquo temporeperpetuum silencium conservavit...’ ends. ‘…libroseius sacrae bibliothecae inseri et intitulari nomine Secundi philosophi.’ (aspublished in Hilka (1910), pp. 18-23).

ff. 97v-54v: Pseudo-Aristotle,Secreta Secretorum, translated by Johannes Hispanus with his prologue, begins ‘Cum de utilitate corporis hominis…’ends ‘…ubi ver incipit hiems habeatur’ (printed from this MS by Suchier (1883), pp. 473-80.)

ff. 54v-63v: Pseudo-Seneca(Publilius Syrus), Proverbia, begins ‘Alienum est omne quicquid…’ ends ‘…zelarihominibus’ (printed in R. Bickford Smith, Publilii SyriSententiae, (London 1895), pp.1-42.)

ff. 63v-65r: Pseudo-Caecilius Balbus, Denugis philosophorum (Munich recension), 1-2, imperfect, lacking 1, 30-1 , begins ‘Socrates dixit, que facere turpe est, hec nec dicere honestum puta...’ ends '… nihil laudabilius nihil praeclaroviro dignius clementia atque placabili animo.’.

ff. 66r-72v: Pseudo-Valerius,Dissuasion to Rufinus the Philosopherthat he should not take a wife. (part of Walter Map, De nugis curialium, IV. 3-5. (printed by Lawler – Hanna(1997), pp. 121-48)

ff. 72v-74v:Theophrastus, On Marriage, begins ‘Fertur Auriolus Theopharsti liber de nupciis,in quo quaerit an vir sapiens ducat uxorem...’ ends ‘…quam quos velis notis habere cogaris.’ (aspublished by Lawler – Hanna (1997), pp. 151-56.)

ff. 74v-76r: Excerpts from Jerome’s AgainstJovinianus on marriage, begins ‘Legimus quemdam apud Romanos nobilem....’ (Cf. Lawler – Hanna (1997), p. 82.)

Decoration: Large red and blue puzzle initials, infilledwith red foliate decoration with red and blue pen-flourishing forming a partialborder (ff. 3r, 37r, 42r, 49v, 54v). Smaller red initials with purplepen-flourishing or blue initials with red pen-flourishing. Small simple red orblue initials and paraph marks.