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Detailed record for Burney 338
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| Title |
Prayer Book |
| Origin |
Netherlands, N. |
| Date |
c. 1500 |
| Language |
Dutch |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Artists |
An artist of the Aubergine Group (so-called after the presence of aubergines in the decoration: see Gumbert 1990 p. 87 n. 61). |
| Decoration |
Borders of red and blue penwork decoration incorporating aubergine motifs, either full (ff. 1, 57), or three-sided (ff. 17, 29, 37). Large blue initials with green and red foliate or geometric penwork decoration, some with red and/or blue pen-flourishing. Simple alternating red or blue initials. |
| Dimensions in mm |
140 x 100 (100 x 60) |
| Official foliation |
ff. 118 (ff. i-ii and 119-120 are paper flyleaves) |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962; red edges. Its original binding is described by Priebsch 1901 no. 83, as the same as that of Burney 337. |
| Provenance |
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. 91.
Deutsche Handschriften in England , ed. by Robert Priebsch, 2 vols (Erlangen: Junge, 1896-1901), II: Das British Museum, no. 83.
J. P. Gumbert, The Dutch and their Books in the Manuscript Age , The Panizzi Lectures, 1989 (London: British Library, 1990), p. 87 n. 61, fig. 20. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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f. 1
Decorated initial |
f. 10
Decorated initial |
f. 29
Decorated initial |
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f. 57
Decorated initial |
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