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Detailed record for Burney 59
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| Author |
Romulus |
| Title |
Fabulae |
| Origin |
France |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 11th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Caroline minuscule |
| Decoration |
Plain red initials. |
| Dimensions in mm |
390 x 305 (340 x 240) |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 14 (ff. i-ii, 1, and 12-14 are paper flyleaves) |
| Collation |
i10 (ff. 2-11). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Green morocco; spine gilt; marbled endpapers; 18th century |
| Provenance |
The Benedictine Abbey of St-Benigne, Dijon: no. 230 (bound with Berlin, Staatsbibliothek, MS. Hamilton 517), in the 1653 inventory (from which is taken the list in Bernard de Montfaucon, Bibliotheca Bibliothecarum Manuscriptorum nova …, 2 vols (Paris: Briasson, 1739); the present manuscript is listed in II, 1284).
Unidentified owner, 18th century: inscribed in pencil 'Rue de Condé No. 4.' (f. i verso, lower left 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. 21.
H. L. D. Ward (and J. A. Herbert), Catalogue of Romances in the Department of Manuscripts in the British Museum, 3 vols (London: British Museum, 1883-1910), II (1893), 279-86.
Charles W. Jones, Bedae Pseudepigrapha: Scientific Writings Falsely Attributed to Bede (Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 1939), p. 52.
K. A. de Meyier, Paul en Alexandre Petau en de Geschiednis van hum Handschriften (Voornamelijk op grond van de Petau-Handschriften in de Universiteitsbibliotheek te Leiden), (Leiden: E. J. Brill, 1947), p. 91.
A. J. Dunston, 'The Romulus-Pliny from St. Bénigne's Abbey at Dijon, Recovered in MSS Burney 59 and Hamilton 517', Scriptorium: Revue internationale des études relative aux manuscrits, 7 (1953), 210-18.
Menso Folkerts, 'Die älteste mathematische Aufgabensammlung in lateinischer Sprache: Die Alkuin zugeschriebenen "Propositiones ad Acuendos Iuvenes": Überlieferung, Inhalt, Kritische Edition', in Denkschriften der Österreichischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, mathematisch-naturwissenschaftliche Klasse, 116, 6 (Vienna: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, 1978), this manuscript as 'B'.
P. K. Marshall, 'Phaedrus', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 300-02, (p. 302).
L. D. Reynolds, 'The Elder Pliny', in Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics, ed. by L. D. Reynolds (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1983), pp. 307-16 (p. 315 n. 40). |
| Last revised: 05 February 2005 |
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