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London. British Library, Burney MS 17

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The British Library, Polonsky Pre-1200 Project
Library
London. British Library
Shelfmark
  • British Library, Burney MS 17
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Language
  • Latin
Title
  • Glossed Proverbs, and Glossed Ecclesiastes with prologues
Agent
Description
  • This manuscript was most likely written around the mid-12 th century in France. It contains the Book of Proverbs and the Book of Ecclesiastes with marginal and interlinear glosses. Contents:ff. 1r-22r: A prologue to the Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 22r-74r: The Book of Proverbs (glossed). ff. 74v-101v: The Book of Ecclesiastes (glossed), with prologues. The manuscript contains a number of added texts and inscriptions: f. 103v: Sedulius (fl. 450), a poem on the four Evangelists and their symbols, added in the 12 th or 13 th century: ‘Hoc Matheus agens hominem generaliter implet / Marcus ut alta fremit vox per deserta Leonis / Jura sacerdotis lucas tenet ore iuvenci [sic] / More volans aquile verbo petit astra iohannes’. f. 103v: A poem on the Three Marys, added in the 12 th or 13 th century: ‘Anna tribus · ioachim · cleope · salomeque maria[s] / Tres parit · has ducunt · ioseph · alpheus · zebede[us] / Christum prima ioseph · iabocum cum simone iudam / Altera que sequitur · iacobum parit atque iohannem’. f. 103v: A 12 th - or 13th-century note: ‘Iste liber continet tres libros’, followed by an erased inscription. [ff. i recto-viii verso, 101* recto, 101* verso, 102r-104v, 103* recto, and 103* verso are blank, except for a few additional notations]. Decoration: Large initials in green, yellow or blue with some penwork decoration (containing foliate/arabesque motifs) in an opposing colour (yellow, green or red) or the same colour (ff. 1r, 22r, 57v). Medium-sized initials in blue, red or yellow. Small initials in red, green or blue but only as far as f. 74v. Capitals in marginal gloss highlighted in red (until f. 21r). Titles and roman numerals in the margins have been rubricated.
Place
  • Preferred form
    • France
    Original form
    • France, Europe
    Other form
    • France
    • France (Paris ? Fontainebleau ?)
    • France.
    • France (?)
    • Lieu de copie : France ( ?) : cf. Hans-Collas ― Schandel, p. 327
    • France ?
    • France -- 16e siècle
    • Frankreich
    • França
    • Francia
    • Frankrijk
    • Abbaye de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadia de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abtei Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abbey of Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abadía de Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Abdij van Fleury (Saint-Benoît-sur-Loire)
    • Région de la Loire (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • Loire Region (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Regió del Loira (Abadia de Fleury ?)
    • Región del Loira (Abadía de Fleury ?)
    • France (Abbaye de Fleury ?)
    • França (Abadia de Fleury?)
    • Francia (Abadía de Fleury?)
    • France (Abbey of Fleury?)
    • Frankreich (Abtei Fleury?)
    • Frankrijk (Abdij van Fleury?)
    • France (est : Lorraine ?)
    • França (est: Lorena?)
    • Ostfrankreich (Lothringen?)
    • Eastern France (Lorraine?)
    • Francia (este: Lorena?)
    • Lothringen
    • Lorena
    • Lotharingen
    • Lorraine
    • França (Borgonya?)
    • France (Burgundy?)
    • Francia (Borgoña)
    • France (Bourgogne ?)
    • Frankrijk (Bourgondië?)
    • France (Bretagne ?)
    • França (Bretanya?)
    • Frankreich (Bretagne?)
    • France (Brittany?)
    • Francia (Bretaña)
    • Frankrijk (Bretagne?)
    • France (ouest : Bretagne ?)
    • Western France (Brittany?)
    • França (oest: Bretanya?)
    • Francia (oeste: Bretaña?)
    • Frankrijk (westen) (Bretagne?)
    • Westfrankreich: Bretagne?
    • Bretagne
    • Bretanya
    • Bretaña
    • Brittany
    • Probably the Loire region
    • France: Auxerre or Brittany
    • France: Fleury. vicinity of Paris (Saint-Denis?) (Bischoff)
    • France: Ile-de-France (Sens?)
    • France: Fleury; Reims?
    • France (Southern France?)
    • France: Fleury
    • France: probably Auxerre
    • France: evidently Eastern France
    • Central- or southern France
    • France, Vienne
    • [France]
    • Paris (?)
    • France (Paris?) or Flanders
    • France (3rd part)
    • Strassburg (probably)
    • Paris (?) or Tours (?)
    • France (Normandy?)
    • Rouen (?) or Paris (?)
    • France: Champagne, Burgundy or Centre
    • Lyon or Luxeuil (?)
    • France (Besançon?)
    • France (Paris?)
    • France, Northern (probably)
    • Probably Eastern France
    • St. Denis near Paris (monastery) (?)
    • Tours (?)
    • France (possibly near the court)
    • Italy and France (illumination)
    • [Provence?]
    • France, East (?)
    • France, Northeast?
    • France, Pontigny (or Paris?)
    • France, North?
    • France, Paris?
    • France, Diocese of Limoges?
    • France, Auxerre or area
    • France, Burgundy?
    • France, Brittany or Paris?
    • France, Angers?
    • France, Normandy?
    • France, East?
    • France, Bourges?
    • France, Anjou?
    • France, Northwest?
    • France, Tours?
    • France (probably Paris)
    • SW France?
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    • Gallia? (Frankrijk?)
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    • Frankreich (III.)
    • Frankreich (III)
    • Frankreich (II)
    • Frankreich (I)
    • I./III. Frankreich
    • II. Frankreich
    • Frankreich (Ergänzung)
    • [Frankrijk]
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