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Detailed record for Burney 327
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| Author |
Isidore |
| Title |
Etymologiae, Liber XII: De animalibus |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
1st half of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
1 large puzzle initial in red and blue (f. 12). Small initials alternately in blue or red (green or red on f. 12). Spaces, perhaps for illustrations, remain blank. Marginal ink drawing of fantastic creature (f. 35v). |
| Dimensions in mm |
225 x 150 (ruling very variable) in two columns |
| Official foliation |
ff. i + 43 (ff. i and 43 are flyleaves) |
| Collation |
i12-1 (11th leaf excised, probably blank; ff. 1-11); remainder uncertain. |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Speckled polished brown calf; the edges red; marbled endpapers. |
| Provenance |
Bound with two other manuscripts at an unknown date; ff. 1-11 perhaps belonged to an Oxford owner, between 1224 and 1274: the numbering in Arabic numerals of every fifth line between the columns of f. 1 is said to be typical only of between 1224 and 1274 Oxford manuscripts.
Unidentified book-seller, c.1800: with his price-code 'a/' (f. i verso, top right corner).
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. 89.
Thomas Wright, Popular Treatises on Science written during the Middle Ages, in Anglo-Saxon, Ango-Norman, and English (London: The Historical Society of Science, 1841), p. xiii.
L'Edition Critique des Oeuvres D'Isidore de Seville: Les Recensions Multiples ed. by A Andres Sanz, J. Elfassi et J.C. Martin (Paris: Institut d'Etudes Augustiniennes, 2008) pp. 195-230. |
| Last revised: 14 February 2005 |
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f. 12
Decorated initials |
f. 12
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