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Detailed record for Burney 14
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| ff. 3-270 |
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| Title |
Psalter (ff. 3-186v); Odes 1-9 (ff. 186v-203); Horologion (ff. 204-221); Canon to the Virgin (ff. 221v-225v); Great canon for the evening office (ff. 226-270) |
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Table of feast days in between 1474 and 1493 |
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| ff. 275-337 |
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Menologion |
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| Origin |
Italy, Central (Florence) |
| Date |
last quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Greek |
| Script |
Greek minuscule |
| Decoration |
2 miniatures and foliate borders in gold and colours at the beginning of Psalms 1 and 77 (ff. 3, 93v). Simple gold headpieces. Large gold initials and gold display script (chrysography). |
| Dimensions in mm |
100 x 70 (65 x 45) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 344 (ff. i-iii, 1, 2, and 342-344 are paper flyleaves; ff. 2*-*** are parchment flyleaves; ff. 338-341 are part of the last gathering). |
| Collation |
i-xxxiii 10 (ff. 3-332); xxxiv nine (ff. 333-341). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Burney binding of diced polished calf, rebacked in 1950; gilt and gauffered edges. |
| Provenance |
Inscription: 'Ggo? Antonius M[superscript a] De Colivis 1683,' (f. 1).
between 1600 and 1699 inscription: 'Cosina Ercolo 168' (f. 1).
Inscribed '£12' (f. 2c verso).
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. |
| Notes |
See also Burney 70 for another Greek manuscript made in Florence in the last quarter of the 15th century with a similar decorated border. |
| Select bibliography |
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. 2.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 268.
Alfred Rahlfs, Verzeichnis der griechischen Handschriften des Alten Testaments, für das Septuaginta-Unternehmen, Nachrichten von der Königlichen Gesellschaft der Wissenschaften zu Göttingen, Philologisch-historische Klasse (Berlin: Weidmannsche Buchhandlung, 1914), p. 106, no. 1657.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 27. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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ff. 3-270 |
| Psalter (ff. 3-186v); Odes 1-9 (ff. 186v-203); Horologion (ff. 204-221); Canon to the Virgin (ff. 221v-225v); Great canon for the evening office (ff. 226-270) |
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f. 3
David |
f. 3
Detail |
f. 93v
Moses |
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