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Burney MS 212

Record Id:

040-003462944

Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:

032-002236305

MDARK:

ark:/81055/vdc_100086094820.0x000001

LARK:

SLARK:

Format:

ISAD(G)

Reference (shelfmark):

Burney MS 212

Title:

Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia

Scope & Content:

ff. 1-127v: Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia. Inc. 'Urbis Romae exterarumque gentium facta simul ac'. Expl. 'imminens iuste [sic] impendi supplicio coegit'.

ff. 127v-128v: List of Chapetrs in Valerius Maximus.

ff. 129-168: Joannes Andreae: Summaria Valerii. Inc. 'Primus liber: Alta religio'. Expl. 'Debito supplicio tradidit'. Same text as in Vat. lat. 7320, ff. 218v-235.

f. 168v blank.

ff. 169-201v: Paulus Ziliolus(?): Alphabetical index to Valerius Maximus with preface. Inc.' Ut tabula Valerii Maximi cuilibet prosit, oportet summitati librorum' Same text in Vat. lat. 7320, ff. 235v-250. (attributed to Ziliolus in Vatican Chigi H VI 193. Cf. Les manuscrits classiques latins (1075), 342.).

ff. 202-205: A short alphabetical index. Same text in Vanice, San Marco, Cod. 50 membr., ff. 66-69.

Decoration: 9 large puzzle initials in blue and red, with red and blue penwork decoration, and thin shell gold(?), at the beginning of each book (ff. 1, 14, 29, 43v, 59, 75, 89, 100v, 114; 129, 132, 135, 139, etc.). Small initials in blue with red flourishing, or vice versa. Paraphs alternately red or blue.

Collection Area:

Western Manuscripts

Project / Collection:

Burney Manuscripts

Hierarchy Record Ids:

032-002236305
040-003462944

Is part of:

Burney MS : Burney Manuscripts

Burney MS 212 : Valerius Maximus, Facta et dicta memorabilia

Hierarchy:

032-002236305[0403]/040-003462944

Container:

View / search within Archive / Collection: Burney MS

Record Type (Level):

File

Extent:

Parchment codex.

Digitised Content:

Languages:

Latin

Scripts:

Latin

Start Date:

1400

End Date:

1449

Date Range:

1st half of the 15th century

Era:

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Physical Characteristics:

Materials: Parchment.

Dimensions: 270 x 190 mm (text space 170 x 125 mm) (in two columns).

Foliation: ff. v + 211 (ff. i-v, 207-211 are flyleaves).

Collation: i-xi¹⁰ (ff. 1-110), xii⁸ (ff. 111-118), xiii¹⁰ (ff. 119-128), xiv-xvii¹⁰ (ff. 129-168), xviii-xx¹⁰ (ff. 169-198), xxi^10-2 (last two leaves missing, probably blank; ff. 199-207)

Script: Two hands: ff. 1-128v: Gothic, written 'above top line'; ff. 129-205: Humanistic cursive, written 'above top line'.

Binding: Post-1600. Burney binding of polished brown calf.

Custodial History:

Origin: Italy or Spain.

Provenance:

Unidentified owner, 15th century: with six- and nine(?)-line inscriptions, both erased, the first starting ‘Iste liber est Johan(n)is …’ (f. 127v).

Unidentified humanistic owners, 16th century: with their annotations.

Unidentified owner, 16th century: inscribed with a page number 'CCLV' (f. 127v, top left).

Duval’s anonymous sale, 11 May 1813, lot 303, bought by Burney for £3 3s.

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. 58.

P. O. Kristeller, Iter Italicum. A finding list of uncatalogued or incompletely catalogued humanistic manuscripts of the Renaissance in Italian and other libraries, 7 vols (London: The Warburg Institute, 1963; repr. 1977-1997) IV (Alia Itinera II): Great Britain to Spain (1989), p. 134.

Les manuscrits classiques latins de la Bibliothèque Vaticane, vol. 1. (Paris: Éditions du Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique 1975), p. 342.

Material Type:

Archives and Manuscripts

Legal Status:

Not Public Record(s)

Names:

Andrea, Giovanni, Italian canon lawyer, c 1275-1348
Maximus, Valerius, fl 14-37