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Detailed record for Burney 256
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| Author |
Caius Julius Solinus |
| Title |
Collectanea rerum memorabilium , preceded by a preface (f. 1) and prologue (f. 1r-1v) |
| Origin |
Germany |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 12th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Protogothic |
| Scribe |
By several scribes, including 'Althmannus'. |
| Decoration |
Initials in plain red, partly oxidised (ff. 1, 9). Unfinished: spaces left for all other initials. |
| Dimensions in mm |
250 x 170 (185 x 120 - but variable) |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 60 (ff. i-ii, 58-60 are flyleaves, ff. i, 60 are paper) |
| Collation |
i-vi8 (ff. 1-48), vii8+1 (ff. 49-57, last leaf inserted). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. |
| Provenance |
Signed by one of the scribes: 'Explicit liber Gai. Iulii. Solini. Grammatici. polihistor ab ipso editus et recognitus. de situ orbis terrarum et singulis mirabilibus que in mundo habentur. / Althmannus' (f. 57v).
James Edwards (b. 1756, d. 1816), book collector and bookseller: his sale, 5 April 1815 lot 318 (described as bound in morocco), bought by Payne for £5.
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), p. 66.
C. Iulii Solini: Collectanea rerum memorabilium, ed. by Th. Mommsen (Berlin: Weidmann, 1895), p. xxxviii no. 40.
Mary Ella Milham, 'A Handlist of the Manuscripts of C. Julius Solinus', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 37 (1983), 126-29 (p. 127).
B. Munk Olsen, L’Étude des auteurs classiques latins aux XIe et XIIe siècles, 3 vols (Paris: Centre national de la recherche scientifique, 1982-1989), II (1985), 498 (C. 34). |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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