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Detailed record for Burney 13
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| Title |
Glossed Exodus |
| Origin |
England |
| Date |
1st quarter of the 13th century |
| Language |
Latin |
| Script |
Gothic |
| Decoration |
1 large initial excised and replaced by an initial in gold, followed by display capitals in gold on a blue ground (f. 1). Small initials in blue with red penwork, or vice versa. Chapter numbers in red in the outer and upper margins. |
| Dimensions in mm |
305 x 220 (210 x 145) in up to three columns) |
| Official foliation |
ff. ii + 104 (ff. i-ii and 102-104 are flyleaves; ff. i and 104 are paper) |
| Collation |
i-xii8 (ff. 1-96), xiii6-1(?) (ff. 97-101). |
| Form |
Parchment codex |
| Binding |
Post-1600. Tree-calf binding with marbled endpapers and flyleaves ruled in red ink, all typical of the Bibliotheca Swaniana; c.1792. |
| Provenance |
Edmund Castell (bap. 1606, d. 1686), orientalist and lexicographer: his signature, followed by a note in Arabic (f. 101); not found in the catalogue of his sale, Cambridge, 30 June 1686.
Inscription: 'David Swan. 1792' (f. 101, partly erased), the otherwise unidentified owner of the Bibliotheca Swaniana (cf. Burney 216, Additional 15334, etc.), with his binding and ink pagination.
Unidentified owner/bookseller: inscribed 'Liber Exodus cum Annotationibus et variis lectionibus SS. Patrum' and '£6. 6. 0' in pencil (f. ii verso); 'z' in pencil (ff. i verso and ii verso).
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. 2. |
| Last revised: 05 January 2005 |
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f. 1
Illuminated word |
f. 23v
Decorated initial |
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