London Brit. Mus. Burney 66
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- ff 2r-6v Aristotle, Categoriae (TLG 0086.006), extracts. Tit. ᾽Εκ τῶν τοῦ ᾽Αριστοτέλους δέκα κατηγοριῶν παρεκβολαί.
- ff 7r-18r Notes on Aristotle's Analytica priora
- ff 19r-51v John Philoponus, In Aristotelis libros de anima commentaria (TLG 4015.008), extract, consisting of the commentary on the prooemium of the De Anima.
- ff 52r-67v Latin commentary on Aristotle's Organon. Inc. Quod facere navium gubernatores solent
From the catalogue
- Languages Greek, Ancient
- Physical Description Material: Paper.
- Foliation: ff 67. Dimensions: 140 x 105 mm.
- Ruling: 110 x 60 mm, ff 2r-18r; 95 x 65 mm, ff 19r-51v; 90 x 60 mm, ff 52r-67v. 17 lines per page, ff 2r-6r; 28 lines per page, ff 7r-18r; 17-18 lines per page, ff 19r-22v; 15 lines per page, ff 23r-51r; 16 lines per page, ff 52r-67v. ff 52-67v were bound at the beginning of the volume by 1811.
- Binding: Early 19th century binding of tooled leather.
- Ownership Provenance:John Field (fl. 1590s), of Pembroke College Cambridge, owned c. 1600: his signature, 'Jo: Feildus', f 52r, as in Cotton MS Vespasian A xiii, f 1r; Cotton Titus D xix, f 3r; Cotton Cleopatra D i, f 130r; Durham University Library, Cosin MS V.III.8 and R.xii.E.12 (printed in 1549). Richard Heber (b. 1774, d.1833), book collector: purchased by him at an anonymous sale, Leigh and Sotheby's, 27 June 1811, lot 217.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.
- Bibliography Catalogue of Manuscripts in the British Museum, New Series Vol. I Part II, The Burney Manuscripts, London 1840, p. 22.
- The British Library Summary Catalogue of Greek Manuscripts, I, London 1999, p. 44.
