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Detailed record for Burney 15
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| ff. 2-261v |
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Psalter, parallel Greek and Latin text (ff. 2-227v); Odes, parallel Greek and Latin text (ff. 228-256v); Te Deum, in Latin (ff. 256v-258); Athanasian Creed, in Latin (ff. 258-261v) |
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| ff. 262-265v |
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Midnight office, daily and Sunday offices |
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| f. 266-266v |
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Alphabetical table of contents |
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| Origin |
Italy |
| Date |
c. 1500 |
| Language |
Greek and Latin |
| Script |
Greek minuscule and Humanistic |
| Decoration |
Large gold zoomorphic initial made up of a bird (f. 21v) and large and small red initials in the Greek text, many with penwork decoration. Large and small simple red initials in the Latin text. |
| Dimensions in mm |
165 x 115 (120 x 75) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 269 (ff. i, 1, 1*, and 267-69 are paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
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Post-1600. Blue-green leather with gold tooling, 18th century; gilt edges, with Greek-style 'Creton' edge painting underneath; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
? Offered for sale in James Edwards 1790 catalogue, item 461.
Price of £10 10s, probably before 1812 (inscription '10.10, upper left-hand corner, f. i verso).
James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller, given to Burney after 1792 (inscription, f. 1).
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 |
f. 266v is a palimpsest, the lower text in Greek. |
| 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. 3.
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. 1658.
Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts (London: British Library, 1999- ), I, 27. |
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ff. 2-261v |
| Psalter, parallel Greek and Latin text (ff. 2-227v); Odes, parallel Greek and Latin text (ff. 228-256v); Te Deum, in Latin (ff. 256v-258); Athanasian Creed, in Latin (ff. 258-261v) |
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f. 21v
Illuminated initial |
f. 21v
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