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Detailed record for Burney 250
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| Author |
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Pseudo-Seneca |
| Title |
Tragoediae : Hercules furens (ff. 5-29), Thyestes (ff. 29-50), Phoenissae (ff. 50v-62v), Phaedra (ff. 63-86), Oedipus (ff. 86v-106), Troades (ff. 106v-128), Medea (ff. 128v-147v), Agamemnon (ff. 148-166), Octavia (ff. 167-185), Hercules Oetaeus (ff. 185v-221v) |
| Origin |
Italy, Central (San Gimignano) |
| Date |
1387 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Semi-humanistic |
| Decoration |
Large initials unfinished or in brown ink. Small initials in blue with red penwork. 1 diagram showing the family relationship of Nero and Claudius (f. 166v). Some marginal sketches (e.g. ff. 76v, 81v, 82, 94). |
| Dimensions in mm |
225 x 150 (150 x 85) |
| Official foliation |
ff. v + 229 + 3* + 13* (f. 225 is Burney's table of contents; ff. iii-iv and 226-227 are parchment; ff. i-ii and 228-229 are modern paper) |
| Collation |
i five (ff. 1-4), ii-xviii12 (ff. 5-207), xix18-2 (last 2 leaves missing, probably blank; ff. 208-223). |
| Form |
Paper codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Written by Bartolomeo of San Gimigniano in 1387: 'Per me Bartholomeum conplete fuerunt iste Tragedie M.CCC.lxxxvij inditione [sic] deci(m)a mensis Junij decima sexta die In santo geminiano ad vesperas presentibus testibus …' (colophon in red and blue, f. 222; see Bénédictins du Bouveret, Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVIe siècle, 6 vols (Fribourg: Éditions universitaires, 1965-1982), I, no. 1681; cf. I, no. 1786).
James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: his sale, 5 April 1815 lot 319, bought by Payne for £4 10s.
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. |
| 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), pp. 64-5.
The Palaeographic Society: Facsimiles of Manuscripts and Inscriptions, Second series, ed. by Edward Augustus Bond, Edward Maunde Thompson, and George Frederic Warner, (London: Cloves and Sons, 1884-1894), II, pl. 95.
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, no. 509.
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. 133. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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f. 5
Text page |
f. 94
Coloured initial |
f. 220v
Decorated initials |
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f. 220v
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