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Detailed record for Burney 224
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| Author |
Ovid , Arnulf of Orleans, and others |
| Title |
Metamorphoses (ff. 3-180); Commentary on the Metamorphoses (f. 181v-191); and other short texts |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
2nd or 3rd quarter of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic, written 'above top line' |
| Decoration |
Large initials in red with blue flourishing, or vice versa, the penwork ocasionally incorporating an animal or animal head (e.g., ff. 189v, 154v). Small initials alternately blue or red. 4 diagrams (ff. 3, 3v, 150v, 191v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
195 x 115 (140 x 55) |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 193 (ff. i, 192-193 are flyleaves) |
| Collation |
i8+2 (1st and 2nd leaves inserted; ff. 1-10), ii-xxiii8 (ff. 11-186), xxiv6-1 (last leaf missing, probably blank; ff. 187-191). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Burney binding; rebacked. |
| Provenance |
Previously bound with Burney 330 (with continuous pagination by Twysden).
Sir Roger Twysden (b. 1597, d. 1672), 2nd baronet, antiquary: signed by him (f. 2) and with his pagination and his (?) notes (f. 1v).
Sir John Saunders Sebright, (b. 1767, d. 1846), 7th baronet, politician and agriculturist: sold by him at the ‘Twysden’ sale, 6 April, 1807, lot 1107 (still bound with Burney 330), bought by Burney for £2 5s.
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. 60.
D. A. Slater, Towards a text of the Metamorphosis of Ovid (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1927), p. 34, this manuscript as 'P'.
F. W. Lenz, 'Die Wiedergewinnung der von Heinsius benutzten Ovidhandschriften in den letzten fünfzig Jahren', Eranos: Acta Philologica Suecana a Vilelmo Lundstrom Condita, ed. by Tönnes Kleberg and Gudmund Björck, 51 (1953), 66-88 (p. 83 no. 60).
Franco Munari, Catalogue of the MSS of Ovid's Metamorphoses , Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Stuides of the University of London, Supplementary Papers, 4 (London: University of London, 1957), no. 161.
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. 132. |
| Last revised: Saturday, February 5, 2005 |
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Illuminated initial |
f. 3
Decorated initial and diagram |
f. 3
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f. 3
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f. 191v
Diagram of the harmony of the planets |
f. 191v
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