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Detailed record for Burney 355
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| Author |
Johannes Cassianus, adapted by Dionysius de Ruremunda |
| Title |
De institutis coenobiorum, in the version of Dionysius of Ruremunda (Denys the Carthusian), with preface of Dionysius; Collationes, with list of chapters |
| Origin |
Netherlands, S. (Hainaut, Edingen) |
| Date |
between 1478 and 1479 |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic cursive |
| Scribe |
Arnold Beeltresen de Tolenbeke, a Carthusian monk. |
| Decoration |
Large puzzle initials in blue and red, some with flower motifs and dense penwork flourishing, 1 with possibly later flourishing in brown ink (f. 144). Smaller simple initials alternately blue and red, 2 with possibly later flourishing in the bowl in brown ink (f. 143v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
345 x 243 (250 x 75) |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 200 (f. i a parchment former paste-down) |
| Collation |
i-xxv8 (ff. 1-200). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1962. |
| Provenance |
The Carthusian monastery of the Chapel of our Lady, Edingen, Hainaut, southern Netherlands, dated 1478 and 1479 (inscription, f. 200v).
Manuscript shelfmark 'No. 105', and price '330' (f. i ).
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. |
| Notes |
Offsets of medieval binding on f. i. Damage to the lower margins throughout. |
| 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. 95.
John W. Bradley, A Dictionary of Miniaturists, Illuminators, Calligraphers, and Copyists 3 vols (London: Quaritch, 1887-1889), III, 315 (where this manuscript is incorrectly identified as Arundel 355).
[C. H. Talbot], 'Cistercian Manuscripts in England', Collectanea Ordinis Coisterciensium Reformatorum, 14 (1952), 208-12, 264-77 (p. 273).
A.G. Watson Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c.700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London: British Library, 1979), I, no. 513.
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.
Kent Emery, Dionysii Cartusiensis Opera Selecta, Corpus Christianorum Continuatio Mediaevalis, 121 (Turnhout: Brepols, 1991- ), IA: Bibliotheca manuscripta, Studia Bibliographica, p. 185. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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Puzzle initials with flower motifs |
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