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Detailed record for Burney 133
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| Author |
Gaius Valerius Catullus |
| Title |
Carmina |
| Origin |
Italy, S. (Naples) |
| Date |
3rd quarter of the 15th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Humanistic, written 'above top line', by the same scribe as Burney 343. |
| Artists |
By the same artist as Burney 343. |
| Decoration |
1 historiated initial, with full borders incorporating heraldic arms, in colours and gold (f. 1). Small white vine initials, in colours and gold. |
| Dimensions in mm |
235 x 140 (145 x 80) |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 65 (ff. i-ii and 65 are flyleaves) |
| Collation |
i-viii8 (ff. 1-64). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
BM/BL in-house. Rebound in 1957. |
| Provenance |
Made for Alfonso II, duke of Calabria (between 1448 and 1495), and king of Naples (between 1494 and 1495): with several of his devices in the original decoration (f. 1); formerly bound with Burney 343, which has offsets of Burney 133, f. 1; Burney 343 has the ducal arms of Alfonso (f. 1).
Unidentified owner: with an erased ownership(?) inscription in the lower margin of f. 1.
Charles Burney (b. 1757, d. 1817), D.D., classical scholar; he was presumably responsible for separating the manuscript into two volumes.
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. 50.
Alessandro Palma di Cesnola, Catalogo di manoscritti italiani esistenti nel Museo Britannico di Londra (Turin: Roux, 1890), no. 270.
Catullus: A Critical Edition ed. by D. F. S. Thomson (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1978), no. 48, pp. 50-51 and passim. |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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f. 1
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f. 1
Historiated initial, and border with emblems |
f. 1
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f. 1
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f. 13v
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f. 23v
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f. 23v
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f. 58v
Illuminated initials |
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f. 58v
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