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Detailed record for Burney 214
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| Author |
Orosius |
| Title |
Historia adversus paganos (ff. 11-90), preceded by a chapter list (ff. 4-10v) |
| Origin |
Switzerland, N. (Basle), or Germany, S. |
| Date |
c. 1434 (before 1435) |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Semi-humanistic |
| Decoration |
1 large historiated initial with partial border, in colours and gold (f. 4). Large puzzle initials in red and blue, with red and mauve penwork infill and flourishing, and a yellow wash, at the beginnings of books (ff. 11, 19v, 26, etc.). Small initials alternately red with blue penwork decoration, or vice versa. |
| Dimensions in mm |
295 x 210 (210 x 150) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. iv + 95 (ff. i-iv, 91-95 are flyleaves; ff. iii-iv, 92-93 are parchment) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Inscribed on the lower edge of the leaves. |
| Provenance |
Francesco Marerio (d. 1442), bishop of Brescia (between 1418 and 1442): inscribed in humanistic script ‘Pauli Orosii viri eruditissimi liber hystoriar(um) aduersus Paganoru(m) Calumnias; scriptus Basilee [Basle] anno d(omi)ni n(ost)ri Iesuchristi Na(tivita)tis 1434 Francisci de Marerio Ep(iscop)i Brixien(s)is [followed by a three-line erasure, perhaps ending with a date: die 7 … 144… (?)]’ (f. 3v; see Andrew G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library, 2 vols (London: British Library, 1979), I, 166; cf. Vienna, ÖNB, Cod. 618, signed by Marerio in 1440).
Mario Maffei (b. 1463, d. 1537), of Volterra: inscribed ‘De figli et h(er)edi di M. Mario Maffei’ (f. 4).
Anthony Askew (b. 1722, d. 1772), physician and book collector: his sale, 7 March 1785, lot 499, bought by Marsh for £1 15s.
Charles Marsh (b. 1735, d. 1812), F.S.A.; his sale, 1 February 1816, lot 990.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar.
Purchased for the British Museum from Charles Parr Burney, son of Charles Burney, D.D., in 1818. |
| Notes |
ff. 1-2 are two inserted paper leaves with 18th-century notes in English on Orosius, perhaps in the hand of Anthony Askew. |
| 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. 59.
B. L. Ullman, 'Codices Maffeiani', in Studies in the Italian Renaissance (Rome: Edizioni di storia e letteratura, 1955), pp. 373-82 (p. 374, no. 8).
José Ruysschaert, 'Recherche des deux bibliothèques romaines Maffei des XVe et XVIe siècles', La Bibliofilia, 60 (1958), 306-33 (p. 323, no. 25).
J. M. Bately and D. J. A. Ross, 'A Checklist of Manuscripts of Orosius "Historiarum Adversum Paganos Libri Septem"', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 15 (1961), 329-34 (no. 72).
Paul Oskar 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. 132. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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f. 4
Historiated initial |
f. 4
Detail |
f. 4
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f. 11
Decorated initial |
f. 11
Detail |
f. 19v
Puzzle initial |
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f. 19v
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