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Detailed record for Burney 301
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| Author |
Bernard of Clairvaux |
| Title |
Various sermons, (labelled as those from Advent to Easter) with table of contents |
| Origin |
France, N. (Amiens?) |
| Date |
c. 1500 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Semi-humanistic |
| Decoration |
Partial bar border with sprouting foliage, and large blue initial on gold background with painted flowers in the bowl of the letter (ff. 1, 73v). A large illuminated pink initial with foliate forms in the bowl and sprouting into the inner border (f. 136). Large and small red and blue puzzle initials. Small simple red or blue initials. Light yellow highlights to the capital letters at the beginning of sentences. |
| Dimensions in mm |
350 x 230 (250 x 175) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 158 (ff. i and 158 are marbled paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962; gilt edges. |
| Provenance |
The Celestines of Amiens (seventeenth century inscription, 'L(ib)er Celestinorum Ambianensium', f. 1). The same scribe wrote Burney 300, which contains Bernard of Clairvaux's sermons from Easter to Advent, and a seventeeth century inscription, 'L(ib)er Celestinorum Ambianensium', 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. |
| 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. 77.
Léopold Delisle, Le Cabinet des Manuscrits de la Bibliothèque Impériale [Nationale]: Étude sur la formation de ce dépôt 3 vols. (Paris: Imprimerie Nationale, 1868-1881), II (1874), 251. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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f. 1
Illuminated border and initial |
f. 1
Detail |
f. 73v
Illuminated initial |
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f. 73v
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