Catalogue
of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
in the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library
Yale University
VOLUME III: MARSTON MANUSCRIPTS
\
medieval & Renaissance texts & studies
Volume ioo
Catalogue
of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts
in the Beinecke Rare Book
and Manuscript Library
Yale University
VOLUME III: MARSTON MANUSCRIPTS
BY
Barbara A. Shailor
me&icvAl & Renaissance texts & studies
Binghamton, New York 1992
© Copyright 1992
Center for Medieval and Early Renaissance Studies
State University of New York at Binghamton
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publicatlon Data
Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
(Medieval 8c Renaissance texts & studies ; v. 34, 48, 100)
Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents: v. 1. MSS 1-250-v. 2. MSS 251-500-v. 3. Marston manuscripts.
1. Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Librai^— Catalogs.
2. Manuscripts— Connecticut— New Haven— Catalogs.
3. Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern>-Catalogs.
4. Manuscripts, Greek (Medieval and modern)— Catalogs.
5. Manuscripts, Medieval— Connecticut— New Haven— Catalogs.
6. Manuscripts, Renaissance- Connecticut— New Haven— Catalogs.
I. Shailor, Barbara A., 1948- . II. Title. 111. Tide: Catalog of Medieval and
Renaissance manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library,
Yale University. IV. Series. V. Series: Medieval & Renaissance texts 8c studies ;
V. 34, etc.
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Contents
Abbreviations ix
Introduction xvii
Marston Manuscripts 1
Indices 569
Plates 605
Abbreviations
Ahhe^ Cat.
Achten-Knaus
Anthologia latina
Aristoteles Latinvs
Avril and Gous- set
Avril and Zalus- ka
Bertalot
BHG^ BHL
B. L.
Bloomfield, Vir- tues and Vices
J. J. G. Alexander and A. C. de la Mare, The Italian Manuscripts in the Library of Major J. R. Abbey (New York and London, 1969).
G. Achten and H. Knaus, Deutsche und niederldndische Gebetbuchhandschriften der Hessischen Landes- und Hoch- schulbibliothek Darmstadt (Darmstadt, 1959).
A. Riese, ed., Anthologia latina sive poesis latinae supple- mentum, I, Carmina in codicibus scripta (Leipzig, 1894- 1906).
G. Lacombe, Aristoteles Latinvs. Pars prior (Rome, 1939); Pars posterior (Cambridge, 1955).
F. Avril and M.-T. Gousset, Manuscrits enlumines d'ori- gine italienne, v. 2 = XIII* siecle (Paris, 1984).
F. Avril and Y. Zaluska, Manuscrits enlumines d'origine italienne, v. 1 = VF-XIP siecles (Paris, 1980).
L. Bertalot, Initia humanistica latina: Initienverzeichnis lateinischer Prosa und Poesie aus der Zeit des 14. bis 16. Jahrhunderts (Tubingen, 1985- ).
Bibliotheca hagiographica graeca, ediderunt Socii Bollan- diani, 3rd ed. (Brussels, 1957).
Bibliotheca hagiographica latina, ediderunt Socii BoUan- diani.
British Library.
M. W. Bloomfield, et al., Incipits of Latin Works on the Virtues and Vices, 1100-1^00 A. D. (Cambridge, Mass., 1979).
Abbreviations
B.N.
Branner
Briquet
Bursill-Hall, Census
CAG Canart
CC
CC Com. Med. CLA
Colophons
Copinger Cosenza
CPL
CSEL CTC
De la Mare, New Research
Bibliotheque Nadonale.
R. J. Branner, Manuscript Painting in Paris during the Reign of Saint Louis: A Study of Styles (Berkeley, 1977).
C. M. Briquet, Les filigranes: Dictionnaire historique des marques du papier... 1282 jusqu'en 1600, facs. of the 1907 edition with supplementary material, ed. A. Stevenson (Amsterdam, 1968).
G. L. Bursill-Hall, A Census of Medieval Latin Grammat- ical Manuscripts, Grammatica Speculativa, 4 (Stutt- gart-Bad Cannstatt, 1981).
Commentaria in Aristotelem graeca, 23 vols. + 3 supp. vols. (Berlin, 1882-1909).
P. Canart, "Scribes grecs de la Renaissance," Scriptorium 17 (1963) pp. 56-82.
Corpus christianorum.
Corpus christianorum: Continuatio mediaevalis.
E. A. Lowe, Codices latini antiquiores (Oxford, 1934-71).
Colophons de manuscrits occidentaux des origines au XVP siecle, 6 vols. (Fribourg, 1965-82).
W. A. Copinger, Supplement to Main's Repertorium biblio- graphicum (Berlin, 1926).
M. E. Cosenza, Biographical and Bibliographical Dictio- nary of the Italian Humanists and of the World of Classi- cal Scholarship in Italy, ISOO- 1800 (Boston, 1962-67).
Clavis patrum latinorum, ed. E. Dekkers, Sacris enidiri 3 (2nded., 1961).
Corpus scriptorum ecclesiasticorum latinorum.
V. Brown, F. E. Cranz, P. O. Kristeller, eds., Catalogus translationum et commentariorum: Mediaeval and Re- naissance Latin Translations and Commentaries (Wash- ington, D.C., 1960- ).
A. C. de la Mare, "New Research on Humanistic Scribes in Florence," in A. Garzelli, ed., Miniatura
Abbreviations
XI
De Marinis, La
legatura
De Meyier
De Ricci
Delaisse, Marrow and de Wit, Waddesdon Manor
Derolez
DNB Dutschke
EETS Emden, BRUC
Emden, BRUO
Eubel
Exhibition Catalogue
Faye and Bond
fiorentina de Rinascimento 1440-1525, 2 vols. (Flor- ence, 1985).
T. De Marinis, La legatura artistica in Italia nei secoli XV e XVI, 3 vols. (Florence, 1960).
K. A. de Meyier, "Scribes grecs de la Renaissance. Additions et corrections aux repertoires de Vogel- Gardthausen, de Patrinelis et de Canart," Scriptorium 18 (1964) pp. 258-66.
S. de Ricci, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manu- scripts in the United States and Canada (New York, 1935-40).
L. M.J. Delaisse, J. Marrow and J. de Wit, Illuminated Manuscripts. The James A. de Rothschild Collection at Waddesdon Manor, v. 8 (Fribourg, 1977, for the Nadonal Trust by the Office du Livre).
A. Derolez, Codicologie des manuscrits en ecriture huma- nistique sur parchemin, Bibliologia 5-6 (Turnhout, 1984).
Dictionary of National Biography.
D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States, Censimento dei codici petrarcheschi, 9 (Pad- ua, 1986).
Early English Text Society.
A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Cambridge to A. D. 1500 (Cambridge, 1963).
A. B. Emden, A Biographical Register of the University of Oxford to A. D. 1500 (Oxford, 1957-59).
C. Eubel, et al., Hierarchia catholica medii aevi..., 8 vols. (Mvinster in Westphalia, 1913- ; reprinted Padua, 1960).
W. Cahn and J. Marrow, eds., "Medieval and Renais- sance Manuscripts at Yale: A Selection," Yale Uni- versity Library Gazette 52 (1978) pp. 173-284.
C. U. Faye, Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Ren- aissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada.
XII
Abbreviations
Continued and edited by W. H. Bond (New York, 1962).
Garzelli, Minia- A. Garzelli, ed., Miniatura Jiorentina de Rinascimento tura fiorentina 1440-1525, 2 vols. (Florence, 1985).
Gazette
GKW
Glorieux
Graiix and Mar- tin
Hain
Harlfinger Haureau
HBS HE
Heawood Iter italicum
Kaeppeli, SOPMA
IMEV
Yale University Library Gazette.
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke (1925- ).
P. Glorieux, Repertoire des maitres en theohgie de Paris au Xlir siecle. Etudes de philosophic medievale 17-18 (Paris, 1933-34).
C. Graux and A. Martin, Rapport sur une mission en Espagne et en Portugal Notices sommaires..., in Nouvelles archives des missions scientijiques et litteraires 2 (1892) pp. 1-322.
L. F. T. Hain, Repertorium bibliographicum, in quo libri omnes ah arte typographica inventa usque ad annum MD (Stuttgart, 1826-38).
D. and J. Harlfinger, Wasserzeichen aus griechischen Hand- schriften (Berlin, v. 1: 1974; 2: 1980).
B. Haureau, Initia operum scriptorum latinorum medii potissimum aevi ex codicibus manuscriptis..., 8 vols. (Turnhout, 1973-74).
Heniy Bradshaw Society.
C. Wordsworth, ed. Horae Eboracenses, Surtees Society 132 (1920).
E. Heawood, Watermarks, Mainly of the 17th and 18th Centuries (Monumenta Chartae Papyraceae I) (Hil- versum, 1950).
P. O. Kristeller, Iter italicum accedunt alia itinera, 5 vols. (London and Leiden, 1963-90).
T. Kaeppeli, Scriptores ordinis praedicatorum medii aevi, 3 vols. (Rome, 1970-80).
C. Brown and R. H. Robbins, The Index of Middle Eng- lish Verse (New York, 1943). Supplement by R. H. Robbins and J. L. Cutler (Lexington, 1965).
Abbreviations
XIII
lUPI
Karpozilos Ker, MLGB Ker, MMBL Lambert, BHM
Leclercq, 1951
Leclercq, 1961
Leroquais, LH
Liefdnck, Maat- schappij
Lyell Cat.
Meertens
MGH
Missale Romanum
MSS dates Nichipor
M. Santagata, Incipitario unificato delta poesia italiana, 2 vols. (Modena, 1988).
A. Karpozilos, "The Yale University Manuscripts of Andreas Darmarius," Hellenika 26 (1973) pp. 67-71.
N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd ed. (London, 1964).
N. R. Ker, Medieval Manuscripts in British Libraries (Ox- ford, 1969- ).
B. Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta, In- strumenta Patristica, IV, 4 vols, in 6 pts. (Steenbrug- ge, 1969-72).
J. Leclercq, "Manuscrits cisterciens dans les biblio- theques dTtalie," Analecta Sacri Ordinis Cisterciensis 7 (1951) pp. 71-77.
J. Leclercq, "Textes et manuscrits cisterciens dans les bibliotheques des Etats-Unis," Traditio 17 (1961) pp. 163-83.
V. Leroquais, Les livres d'heures, manuscrits de la BibUo- theqv£ Nationale (Paris, 1927-43).
Codices 168-360 Societatis cui nomen Maatschappij der Nederlandsche Letterkunde descripsit G. I. Lieftinck. Biblioteca Universitatis Leidensis. Codices Manu- scripti, V. 1 (Leiden, 1948).
A. C. de la Mare, Catalogue of the Collection of Medieval Manuscripts Bequeathed to the Bodleian Library Oxford by James P. R. Lyell (Oxford, 1971).
M. Meertens, De Godsvrucht in de Nederlanden; naar Handschriften van Gebedenboeken der XV Eeuw. Leu- vense Studien en Tekstuitgaven 1-3, 6 (1930-34).
Monumenta Germaniae historica.
R. Lippe, ed., Missale Romanum Mediolani 1474 in Hen- ry Bradshaw Society 17, 33 (1899, 1907).
Catalogue des manuscrits en ecriture latine portant des indi- cations de date, de lieu ou de copiste (Paris, 1959- ).
W. N. Nichipor, "Marginalia," Yale University Library Gazette 58 (1984) pp. 186-87.
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Abbreviations
OCT Olivier
Omont
Pacht and Alex- ander
Parkes, Cursive Book Hands
Parkes, Kebk College
Patrinelis
Perdrizet
PG
Phillipps Studies Piccard
PL
Plummer, Last Flowering
PMLA
PO
Reynolds, Texts and Transmis- sion
Oxford Classical Texts.
J.-M. Olivier, "Les manuscrits grecs de I'Archivo-Bib- lioteca del Calbildo metropolitano (La Sec) de Sara- gosse," Scriptorium 30 (1976) pp. 52-57.
H. Omont, Facsimiles des manuscrits grecs des XV et XVF siecles (Paris, 1887).
O. Pacht and J. J. G. Alexander, Illuminated Manuscripts in the Bodleian Library, 3 vols. (Oxford, 1966-73).
M. B. Parkes, English Cursive Book Hands 1250-1500 (Oxford, 1969).
M. B. Parkes, The Medieval Manuscripts of Keble College Oxford (London, 1979).
C. G. Patrinelis, ""E^Xrivec; KoSiKOYpacpoi," 'ETiexnpK; ToO MeaaicoviKoO 'Ap^eiou, vols. 8-9 (1958-59) (Athens, 1961) pp. 62-125.
P. Perdrizet, Le calendrier parisien a la fin du moyen age. Publications de la Faculte des Lettres de VUniversite de Strasbourg 63 (Paris, 1933).
Patrologiae cursus completus, series graeca, accurante J.-P. Migne.
A. N. L. Munby, Phillipps Studies {C^nnhndge, 1951-60).
G. Piccard, Die Wasserzeichenkartei Piccard im Haupt- staatsarchiv Stuttgart {Stuttgart, 1961- ).
Patrologiae cursus completvs, series latina, accurante J.-P. Migne.
J. Plummer, The Last Flowering: French Painting in Man- uscripts H20-1530, exhib. cat. (New York and Lon- don, 1982).
Publications of the Modem Language Association of Ameri- ca.
Patrologia orientalis (Paris, 1907- ).
L. D. Reynolds, et al., Texts and Transmission: A Survey of the Latin Classics (Oxford, 1983).
Abbreviations
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RH Richard
Robinson, Cam- bridge
Sarum Missal
Schneyer
Sinclair
Sonet
SR Stegmiiller
Stegmiiller, Sent.
Tenneroni
Teubner
The Medieval Book
Thomson, Latin Bookhands
Thorndike and Kibre
U. Chevalier, Repertorium hymnologicum, v. 1-4 (Louvain, 1892-1921); v. 5-6 (Brussels. 1920-21).
M. Richard, Repertoire des bibliotheques et des catalogues de manitscrits grecs,, 2nd ed. (Paris, 1958); Supplement (1964).
P. R. Robinson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manuscripts c. 737-1600 in Cambridge Libraries (Cambridge, 1988).
J. W. Legg, The Sarum Missal, edited from three early man- uscripts (Oxford, 1916).
J. B. Schneyer, Repertorium der lateinischen Sermones des Mittelalters fur die Zeit von 1150-1350. Beitrage zur Geschichte der Philosophie und Theologie des Mit- telalters 43 (Miinster, 1969- ).
K. V. Sinclair, Descnptive Catalogue of Medieval and Re- naissance Western Manuscripts in Australia (Sydney, 1969).
J. Sonet, Repertoire d'incipit de prieres en ancien frangais. Societe de Publications Romanes et Frangaises 54 (Ge- neva, 1956).
Statutes of the Realm; witii references to 1810-28 ed., v. 1.
F. Stegmiiller, Repertorium biblicum medii aevi (Madrid, 1950- ).
F. Stegmiiller, Repertorium commentariorum in Sententias Petri Lombardi (Wiirzburg, 1947).
A. Tenneroni, Inizii di antiche poesie italiane religiose e morali (Florence, 1909).
Bibliotheca scrip torum graecorum et romanorum teub- neriana.
B. A. Shailor, The Medieval Book, exhib. cat. (Nev^f Ha- ven, 1988; reprinted Toronto, 1991).
S. H. Thomson, Latin Bookhands of the Later Middle Ages ii^<9- 750(9 (Cambridge, 1969).
L. Thorndike and P. Kibre, A Catalogue of Incipits of Mediaeval Scientific Writings in Latin, 2nd ed. (Cam- bridge, Mass., 1963).
XVI
Abbreviations
Ullman
Vogel and Gardthausen
Walters Art Gallery, Book- binding
Walther, Initia
Walther, Sprich- worter
Watson, B. L.
Watson, Oxford
Weale, South Kensington
Wilmart
Ziskind Catalogue
B. L. Ullman, Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States^ Censimento dei codici petrarcheschi, 1 (Padua, 1964); also in Italia medioetjale e umanistica 5 (1962) pp. 443-75.
M. Vogel and V. Gardthausen, Die griechischen Schreiber des Mittelalters und der Renaissance. Beihefte zum Zen- tralblatt fur Bibliothekswesen 33 (Leipzig, 1909).
The History of Bookbinding 525-1950 A. A, exhib. cat.. The Walters Art Gallery (Baltimore, 1957).
H. Walther, Initia carminum ac versuum medii aevi poste- rioris latinorum, Carmina medii aevi posterioris latina, i, 2nd ed. (Gotdngen, 1969).
H. Walther, Lateinische Sprichworter und Sentenzen des Mittelalters, Carmina medii aevi posterioris ladna, ii (Gotdngen, 1963-86).
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manus- cripts c. 700-1600 in the Department of Manuscripts, The British Library (London, 1979).
A. G. Watson, Catalogue of Dated and Datable Manu- scripts c. 435-1600 in Oxford Libraries (Oxford, 1984).
W. H. J. Weale, Bookbindings and Rubbing of Bindings in the National Art Library, South Kensington Museum (London, 1894, 1898).
A. Wilmart, Auteurs spirituals et textes devots du moyen age latin (Paris, 1932).
B. M. W. Knox, "The Ziskind Collection of Greek Man- uscripts," Yale University Library Gazette 32 (1957) pp. 38-56.
Introduction
THE THIRD VOLUME OF THE Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Yale University is devoted to the Marston Collection — a group of some 230 manuscripts collected by Thomas E. Marston preserved in the Beinecke Library as a distinct /onrf, separate from the General Collection of early manuscripts. MSS 1-500 of the General Collection are described in the first two volumes of this series (Vol. I: 1984; Vol. II: 1987).
Acquired by the late Thomas Marston primarily during the 1940s and 1950s, the collection is extremely rich in classical authors and major Renaissance texts; the Marston manuscripts, which constitute one of the major private North Ameri- can collections of the 20th century, compare favorably with the manuscripts acquired by Philip Hofer, C. L. Ricketts, Henry Huntington, and Phyllis G. and John D. Gordan.
It is the purpose of this introduction to survey briefly the life and collection of Thomas E. Marston (1904-84), and to outline the format and layout of the individual entries and index.
THOMAS EWART MARSTON, BORN IN CHICAGO IN 1904, had throughout his life a close affiliation with Yale University. A graduate of Yale College in 1927 with the A. B. degree, he entered the Yale Graduate School in 1929 in the areas of Egypto- logy and ancient history. Marston then entered the Harvard Graduate School, where he received both the M. A. (1936) and Ph. D. (1939) degrees in European history. His doctoral dissertation, on Britain's Imperial Role in the Red Sea Area, 1800-70, was published in 1961. During World War II and the Korean War he served in several military capacities, both as an evaluation analyst in the Army Air Force and later as colonel in the United States Army Intelligence. After military service he returned to Yale where he became Curator of Classics, and then of Medieval and Renaissance Literature until his retirement in 1973. Marston was an active and generous Trustee of the Yale University Library Associates for the fifty-one years between 1933 and his death in 1984; he made frequent pledges to the Yale library for the acquisition of rare books and manuscripts.
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It was during Thomas Marston's early years at Yale that he began collecting medieval and Renaissance manuscripts. The late Cora E. Lutz remembered vividly a course in Latin satire taught by G. Lincoln Hendrickson, Professor of Classics, in which both she and Thomas Marston were students. While other members of the class were studying the works of Juvenal and Persius from modern printed books, Marston was eagerly buying and using both early manuscripts and incunables for his texts. Many of these Juvenal volumes, which formed the nucleus of his early collection and which were presented by him to Yale in 1936 in memory of his father, are now catalogued as part of the general collections within the Beinecke Library.
Over the years Marston developed wide-ranging collecting interests. His service in the Middle East inspired him to acquire a small number of early Turkish, Arabic, Greek, Persian, Ethiopic and Slavonic manuscripts. He was an avid collec- tor of 15th- and 16th-century printed books, with a special interest in Roman poets such as Catullus, Horace, Tibullus, and Martial. In 1939 he gave to the Yale Library a collection of first editions of W. Somerset Maugham, in addition to 35 autograph letters, four publisher's contracts, and four sets of corrected proofs of stories by Maugham. In 1960 he presented 87 maps to the library.
Throughout his career as collector, however, Marston was most enthusiastic about Western manuscripts produced in the Middle Ages and Renaissance. Although Marston began his collecting with the Latin classics, he soon broadened his scope to include texts written in later periods and he developed in time more far-reaching principles for adding volumes for his personal library. In a letter dated 1 May 1961 Marston wrote to the University Librarian, James T. Babb:
The collection is designed around these aspects:
1. to show a typical monastic library of the Twelfth Century,
2. to show a typical humanistic library of the Fifteenth Century, and
3. to provide representative texts illustrating Thirteenth and Fourteenth Century intellectual activity.
Hence, in addition to the works of Ovid, Juvenal, Persius, Seneca, and Cicero, he actively sought out the texts, translations, and commentaries by Leonardo Bruni, Ambrogio Traversari, Guarino of Verona, Lorenzo Valla, and other members of their literary circles. Manuscripts from 15th-century Italy, both in Latin and Italian, constitute a major portion of the Marston collection, and for some authors the collection approached comprehensiveness. Hence, the Marston collection contains a significant proportion of items that can be attributed to 15th-century Italy, written both in Latin and Italian. As a result of Marston's enthusiasm for the Renaissance, for example, the Beinecke Library now houses the largest collection of manuscripts of Leonardo Bruni's works outside of Italy (see J. Hankins, "Bruni Manuscripts in North America: a Handlist," Nuovi sludi stoiici 10 [1991] pp. 55-90). The Marston collection is also interesting from a codicological perspective.
Introduction XIX
Many of the items are in an excellent state of preservation, with early boards and flyleaves intact, and with only minor restoration and repairs. Because Marston appreciated the artistic beauty of early bookbindings, he seldom had a volume rebound. Marston was less inspired by the elaborate decoration of a volume than by the text(s) it contained; although he acquired a few manuscripts illuminated by well-known artists of considerable accomplishment, the collection is far richer in manuscripts of textual, paleographical, and codicological interest. An example of Marston's perspicacity in seeking out text manuscripts is the remarkable group of 12th- and 13th-century manuscripts whose provenance can be traced back to the Cistercian abbey of Hautecombe in Savoy.
Unfortunately, Thomas Marston's zeal in collecting manuscripts far exceeded his interest in keeping records about the items he purchased. The files in the Beinecke Library contain very little information beyond that recorded in the Faye and Bond Supplement. For those manuscripts not listed in Faye and Bond, there is even less information. Marston often jotted down notes, in pencil, in a somewhat cramped but regular script on the front pastedown or flyleaf of a volume. He did not usually indicate the source of his information, much of which we have not been able to verify. In those cases where the information was erroneous, we have not included reference to his notes. In other instances, we have cited his opinion, although its accuracy may be open to question.
Marston's devotion to book collecting, which began in the 1920s, extended into the 1960s. When Faye and Bond issued in 1962 their Supplement to the Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, there was a total of 276 items listed under his name. For a number of reasons this list does not accurately reflect the collection as it exists today and as it is catalogued in this volume. First, since Marston continued to acquire manuscripts after 1962, the last numbered item today bears the shelf-mark "Marston MS 287." Second, before Yale purchased the bulk of the Marston manuscript collection in 1962, Marston had sold or put up for auction more than thirty manuscripts. He sold nineteen manu- scripts (Marston MSS 5, 58, 65, 66, 71, 84, 108, 110, 126, 177, 183, 191, 193, 206, 207, 221, 224, 237, and item no. 1 below) in December 1961 through Sotheby's. He sold an additional thirteen manuscripts in January 1962 to Laurence Witten, who auctioned the majority of them through Sotheby's in 1962 (Marston MSS 3, 21, 68, 115, 165), in 1966 (Marston MS 173), and in 1974 (Marston MSS 44, 75, 133, 178). Third, Marston donated some volumes from his collection to the Beinecke Library and these now form part of the general collection; the descrip- tions of these manuscripts appear in Volumes 1 and II of the catalogue. Fourth, in December 1961 Marston gave five manuscripts to the Yale School of Music Library (Marston MSS 19, 20, 103, 121, and no. 1 below).
The following concordance is intended to augment and to update the list in the Faye and Bond Supplement. For those items currently part of the Marston Collec- tion and described in this catalogue we provide the shelf-mark which the manu-
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scripts had while Marston owned diem (the earlier Marston shelf-marks have been replaced by the numbers assigned in the Faye and Bond, Supplement). For each item recorded in Faye and Bond, but not described in Volume III, we attempt to give either its present location (at Yale or elsewhere), or to indicate when and where it was sold. The previous shelf-mark is given when known.
Marston MS Old Number Comment
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 119, to Dawson
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 185, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 5, and re-offered in his cats. 14 (1964), no. 13, and 16 (1965), no. 4; resold at Sodieby's, 10 July 1967, lot 61, to Miss H. Blane
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1 |
39 |
|
2 |
6 |
|
3 |
179 |
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4 |
59 |
|
5 |
182 |
|
6 |
184 |
|
7 |
185 |
|
8 |
29 |
|
9 |
219 |
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10 |
69 |
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11 |
132 |
|
12 |
— |
|
13 |
_ |
|
14 |
„ |
|
15 |
51 |
|
16 |
260 |
|
17 |
215 |
|
18 |
216 |
|
19 |
— |
|
20 |
— |
|
21 |
13 |
|
22 |
32 |
|
23 |
117 |
|
24 |
125 |
|
25 |
129 |
|
26 |
145 |
|
27 |
190 |
|
28 |
149 |
|
29 |
206 |
|
30 |
90 |
Ferrini, cat. 1 (1987), no. 66 No information available No information available
Yale School of Music Library MS 61 (uncatalogued) Yale School of Music Library MS 60 (uncatalogued) sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 115, toMaggs
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Introduction |
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|
31 |
256 |
|
32 |
213 |
|
33 |
— |
|
34 |
20 |
|
35 |
170 |
|
36 |
240 |
|
37 |
253 |
|
38 |
188 |
|
39 |
62 |
|
40 |
242 |
|
41 |
_ |
|
42 |
222 |
|
43 |
228 |
|
44 |
157 |
|
45 |
141 |
|
46 |
189 |
|
47 |
144 |
|
48 |
200 |
|
49 |
74 |
|
50 |
138 |
|
51 |
187 |
|
52 |
224 |
|
53 |
218 |
|
54 |
217? |
|
55 |
210 |
|
56 |
252 |
|
57 |
— |
|
58 |
177 |
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181 |
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172 |
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61 |
I72[sk] |
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171 |
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63 |
168 |
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64 |
148 |
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65 |
161 |
Beinecke MS 450 (vol. II, pp. 400-402)
Beinecke MS 319 (Vol. II, pp. 125-26)
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 9 December 1974, lot 43, to Dr. Knight; British Rail Pension Fund; J. Paul Getty, Jr.; H. Tenschert, cat. 25 (1990), no. 17
sold to Witten in 1962; recent provenance and present location unknown
Beinecke MS 328 (vol. 11, pp. 146-47) sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 186, to Quar- itch; private collector, Cambridge, Mass.; re-sold at Sotheby's, 13 December 1976, lot 60, to Quaritch; now Aberystwyth, National Library of Wales MS 21587 D
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 182, to Heil- brun
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66 225 sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 187, to Quar-
itch
sold to Witten in 1962; now Florence, Biblioteca Nazi- onale Nuov. Acq. 1129
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 191, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 2
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 9 December 1974, lot 45, to Gleeson
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139 |
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68 |
211 |
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133 |
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153 |
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72 |
183 |
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70 |
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83 |
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64 |
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89 |
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96 |
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100 |
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101 |
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107 |
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114 |
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115 |
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166 |
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151 |
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176 |
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36 |
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87 |
40 |
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88 |
11 |
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4 |
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52 |
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54 |
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30 |
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78 |
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80 |
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262 |
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95 |
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102 |
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34 |
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100 |
97 |
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sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 183, to Daw- son; re-sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1972, lot 39, to Traylen
Beinecke MS 358 (vol. II, pp. 201-2)
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116 |
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48 |
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65 |
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68 |
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106 |
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Yale School of Music Library MS 59 (uncatalogued)
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 184, to Davis and Orioli; re-sold at Sotheby's, 5 July 1965, lot 205, to Maggs; sold in 1966 to Canterbury University Library, Christchurch, New Zealand
109 93 sold to Witten in 1962; his sale, cat. 8 (1978), no. 98;
Sotheby's, 23 June 1987, lot 92
110 86 sold at Sotheby's, U December 1961, lot 192, to Quar-
itch
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44 |
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112 |
7 |
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113 |
113 |
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71 |
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61 |
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58 |
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117 |
14 |
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27 |
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142 |
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239 |
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202 |
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42 |
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135 |
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126 |
75 |
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127 |
22 |
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23 |
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129 |
92 |
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130 |
111 |
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131 |
72 |
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132 |
98 |
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133 |
169 |
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 120, to Maggs; B. S. Cron (Handlist, 1965, no. 21)
no information available
Yale School of Music Library MS 63 (uncatalogued)
sold at Sotheby's, U December 1961, lot 188, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 4; B. S. Cron (Handlist, 1965, no. 22)
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 9 December 1974, lot 44, to Van der Merckt
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sold to Witten in 1962; his sale, cat. 6 (1975), no. 8 Beinecke MS 308 (vol. II, pp. 97-99)
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67 |
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135 |
8 |
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136 |
28 |
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137 |
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138 |
122 |
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139 |
10 |
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140 |
82 |
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141 |
91 |
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142 |
109 |
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150 |
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223 |
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146 |
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147 |
193 |
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148 |
_ |
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174 |
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150 |
226 |
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123 |
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131 |
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128 |
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154 |
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155 |
251 |
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156 |
248 |
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157 |
130 |
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158 |
126 |
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159 |
136 |
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160 |
85 |
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161 |
41 |
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162 |
254 |
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163 |
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164 |
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165 |
45 |
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166 |
2 |
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167 |
165 |
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168 |
195 |
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169 |
47 |
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171 |
99 |
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172 |
124 |
no information available
Beinecke MS 327 (vol. II, pp. 143-46) Beinecke MS 415 (vol. II, pp. 327-29)
sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 9 December 1974, lot 47, to Van der Merckt; L. Moorthamers, sale, Brussels, 12 February 1977, lot 169; now Brussels, Bibliotheque Royale, IV.llOl
Beinecke MS 339 (vol. II, pp. 166-69)
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173 127 sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 1 1 July 1966,
lot 249, to Measures
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174 |
50 |
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175 |
15 |
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176 |
249 |
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177 |
16 |
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 181, to Wit- ten 178 53 sold to Witten in 1962; sold at Sotheby's, 9 December
1974, to Quaritch; now Chicago, Newberry Library MS 97.3
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179 |
178 |
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180 |
119 |
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181 |
56 |
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182 |
60 |
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183 |
63 |
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184 |
184 |
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185 |
105 |
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186 |
152 |
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187 |
197 |
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188 |
73 |
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189 |
192 |
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190 |
76 |
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191 |
265 |
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134 |
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237 |
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194 |
250 |
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195 |
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196 |
198 |
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238 |
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155 |
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258 |
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18 |
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201 |
201 |
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202 |
204 |
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203 |
203 |
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204 |
84 |
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205 |
66 |
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206 |
244 |
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 190, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 13 (1963), no. 1 and cat. 15 (1964), no. 2
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 194, to Tray- len; his cat. 58 (1963), no. 43
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 178, to H. P. Kraus; his cat. 100 (1962), no. 3
Beinecke MS 338 (vol. II, pp. 165-66)
sold atSoOieby's, 11 December 1961, lot 180, to Vennor
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207 259 sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 196, to H. P.
Kraus; collection of Peter and Irene Ludwig; now Malibu, California, J. Paul Getty Museum, MS Ludwig XI.l
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208 |
137 |
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209 |
87 |
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210 |
207 |
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211 |
88 |
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212 |
208 |
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213 |
243 |
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214 |
209 |
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156 |
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143 |
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261 |
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212 |
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19 |
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245 |
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255 |
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246 |
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108 |
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263 |
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25 |
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227 |
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146 |
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112 |
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264 |
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35 |
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247 |
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5 |
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234 |
160 |
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162 |
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24 |
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12 |
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 193, to Heil- brun
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 195, to Wit- ten; to H. P. Kraus; "a private Swiss collection"; re-sold at Sotheby's, 18 June 1991, lot 90
sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 179, to Maggs for Major J. R. Abbey (JA.7122); Abbey sale, Sotheby's 19 June 1989, lot 3012, to H. Tenschert; his cat. 25 (1990), no. 6
238 - Beinecke MS 506 (uncatalogued)
239 33
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38 |
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121 |
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242 |
118 |
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243 |
104 |
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49 |
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246 |
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247 |
191 |
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248 |
241 |
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249 |
113 |
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250 |
46 |
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251 |
81 |
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252 |
9 |
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253 |
37 |
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254 |
120 |
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227 |
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256 |
103 |
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257 |
175 |
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258 |
57 |
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55 |
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260 |
158 |
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261 |
214 |
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262 |
43 |
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263 |
199 |
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264 |
196 |
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265 |
159 |
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140 |
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147 |
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268 |
3 |
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269 |
17 |
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21 |
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271 |
1 |
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272 |
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194 |
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173 |
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221 |
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276 |
31 |
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277 |
77 |
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278 |
63 |
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279 |
205 |
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280 |
229 |
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Beinecke MS 380 (vol. II, pp. 239-41) Beinecke MS 326 (vol. II, pp. 141-43)
no information available
281 230
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In addition to those manuscripts listed in Faye and Bond we can add a number of items formerly belonging to Thomas E. Marston, the present location of which is unknown: 1. Augustine, Confessiones, etc., Florence, s. XV^; sold at Sotheby's, 11 December 1961, lot 189, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 3, renoffered in his cats. 14 (1964), no. 11, and 16 (1965), no. 1; re-sold at Sotheby's, 10 July 1967, lot 59, to Milne. 2. New Testament, Latin, with glosses, s. XII^; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 114, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 10. 3. Bible, Spain, s. XIII"; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 116, to Maggs. 4. Gregory IX, pope, Decretales, Liber Sextus, Bologna, s. XIII/XIV; sold at Sotheby's, 10 December 1962, lot 117, to A. G. Thomas; his cat. 12 (1963), no. 7.
Two manuscripts were donated by Marston to other libraries at Yale University:
1. Yale School of Music Library MS 62 (uncatalogued; not recorded in Faye and Bond): Opera varia, in Greek, with musical notation throughout, Byzantium, s. XVI.
2. Yale Medical Historical Library MS 51 (Faye and Bond, p. 63).
The description of each manuscript currently in the Marston collection follows, for the most part, the metliodological considerations and explanations of format as presented in Vol. I of this series (pp. xix-xxi of the Introduction). Those comments are repeated here, with some further clarification, for the reader's convenience.
I. Heading
The heading of each entry consists of the call number, in bold type, in the first line to the left. The number is preceded in every case by "Marston" to distinguish items in this collection from those in the general collection; the designation "Marston" should always be included in references to these manuscripts. The known or probable place of origin and date, known or approximate, appear in the first line to the right. The suprascript notations in, 1, med, 2, ex refer to the beginning, first half, middle, second half, end of the century; 2/4 denotes the second quarter of a century whereas, s. XIV/XV denotes the period around the turn of a century. Multiple places and/or dates appear for composite codices or for items that may have been copied in one location and period and decorated at another place or time. The second line provides an author and short title, to the
Introduction XXIX
left, and reference(s) to plates at the end of the volume, on the right.
II. Contents
As a rule we record texts in the sequence in which they occur in the manuscript and give a leaf citation for the beginning and conclusion of each article. Arabic numerals designate the particular texts (articles). Roman numerals appear if the manuscript is composed of physically discrete sections, as when booklets were bound together into a single codex. Text identifications and bibliographical citations, when available, follow immediately the incipits and explicits for an article. In the case of some texts (e. g., liturgical texts, Bible prefaces) when incipits and explicits are often not useful, a brief identification (and bibliographical citation, if appropriate) is noted instead.
Rubrics and headings written in display script are here printed in italics. Transcriptions of incipits and explicits attempt to retain the original orthography of the text; abbreviations and ligatures are expanded silently. Parallel oblique lines (//) indicate that the text begins or ends imperfectly, or that a passage has been omitted from the text. Square brackets ([]) denote editorial intervention or problems of interpretation (e.g., [?]). The use of [sic] is restricted to readings that may appear peculiar to the reader but which do, in fact, appear in the text. Asterisks occur when letters, words or phrases are illegible due to erasure or damage by water, rodents, etc.
III. Physical Description
The physical specifications of the codex (with multiple descriptions for composite items) are divided into several paragraphs arranged in the following order (it has sometimes been necessary to adopt slightly altered formats, as in the case of rolls and fragments):
a. Material on which a manuscript is written. Adjectives that describe the quality of the parchment or references to watermarks listed in standard works such as Briquet, Piccard, and Harlfinger may follow in parentheses. Number of leaves and foliation are given, with flyleaves designated by small Roman numerals before and after the numbers of leaves of die text. It is presumed that flyleaves are contempo- rary with a binding unless otherwise stated. Dimensions of the folio, with dimen- sions of the written space in parentheses, record the height and width respectively, in millimeters. After the number of columns and lines is the description of the physical arrangement of the page: bounding lines (rulings that delineate the written space), the instruments or materials used for ruling (hard point, crayon, lead, ink), and prickings. For those manuscripts produced in Italy in the fifteenth century, we refer to the helpful series of numbered diagrams included in A. Derolez, Codicologie des manuscrits en ecriture humanistique sur parchemin, Bibliologia
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5-6 (Turnhout, 1984). Because it has become apparent while cataloguing the manuscripts in the Marston collection that much of what Derolez has outlined for humanistic manuscripts written on parchment is also applicable for items originat- ing in Italy in the fifteenth century that were written on paper and in non-hu- manistic scripts, we also frequently provide references to his work for manuscripts with these characteristics.
b. Collation; catchwords, leaf and/or quire signatures. If tliere are several designs or arrangements of catchwords and signatures, we attempt to list them and to record where they occur.
c. Scribes, scripts. Information on the identity of scribe(s), if available, occurs here or under the section devoted to Provenance.
d. Decoration. The main kinds of decoration are described hierarchically, beginning with the most elaborate and proceeding to the simplest. If this portion of the description is exceedingly long, as is true in the case of lavishly illuminated manuscripts, we divide the discussion into several distinct paragraphs. Attributions by art historians and bibliographical citations concerning the illuminator or school of illumination are noted wherever possible.
e. Imperfections. We record significant damage or repair to the item that is not mentioned elsewhere in the entry. When the manuscript is in good physical condition, the paragraph is omitted.
f. Binding. Extensive comments on the structure of the binding have been compiled by J. Greenfield. Plate 1 illustrates different designs of endbands. Those portions of the binding composed of manuscript fragments are also discussed here; often, however, their poor state of preservation or the lack of continuous text hinders us from describing them in great detail or from identifying precisely the text(s). For many of the early bindings, the description is often divided into two paragraphs, with the first discussing the internal structure and the second devoted to the boards, outer covering, hardware, and other external features.
IV. Provenance
This portion of the entry addresses the questions: Where and when was the manu- script produced? Who were its former owners, both individuals and institutions? When and from whom did Thomas Marston acquire the item? Since all manu- scripts in the collection were purchased by the Yale University Library Associates in 1962 for Yale, this information is not repeated in each entry. Evidence of prior ownership is presented even if its importance is unclear. Opening words of the se- cundo folio are appended below the paragraph for most Western manuscripts be- fore 1500. We provide the secundo folio for booklets in a composite manuscript, but not for fragments or for codices where the beginning of the volume is imperfect.
Introduction XXXI
V. Bibliography
Bibliographical citations occur in the following order: 1. De Ricci and/or Faye and Bond; 2. Exhibition Catalogue prepared in 1978 by Walter Cahn and James Marrow; 3. The Medieval Book, catalogue of an exhibition written by Barbara A. Shailor in 1988 (reprinted by the University of Toronto Press, 1991). Other references not cited in the text of the entry are listed in chronological order of publication.
VI. Indices
Multiple indices (1-7) provide access to information in the descriptions:
1. MSS arranged by country (or region) of origin and by century.
2. Dated MSS.
3. General Index: persons, places, authors, etc. There are rather lengthy entries for Saints, Illuminations (listed by subjects illustrated). Bindings, the Secundo folio references, and Watermarks.
4. Illuminators and Scribes.
5. Provenance: individuals and institutions associated with manuscripts.
6. Other MSS cited.
7. Incipits for both identified and unidentified texts.
VII. Plates
Financial considerations preclude the inclusion of photographic reproductions of each item or of each part of a composite codex; we do not illustrate items that are poorly preserved. We exclude account books, diplomas, documents, and the like. The plates are arranged in approximate chronological order according to place of origin. Photographs of bindings are grouped together at the end; the drawing of endbands by Jane Greenfield occurs at the beginning.
I AM GRATEFUL TO MANY COLLEAGUES for their continuing help and support during this entire project. The Board of Advisors for this volume has offered invaluable assistance in the following ways: A. C. de la Mare examined the Italian humanistic manuscripts and offered opinions on their dates and places of origin; Consuelo W. Dutschke read all of the catalogue descriptions in draft format and provided special assistance with both the liturgical and Italian vernacular manuscripts; Jane Greenfield compiled the detailed analysis of structures for the medieval and early Renaissance bindings, as well as information on the origin and date of each binding; Richard H. Rouse, who read the descriptions in draft format and advised
XXXII Introduction
on the dating and place of most non-humanistic manuscripts, was especially helpful in dating and localizing items from the twelfth through fourteenth centuries.
Over the past five years many scholars have shared their expertise with me either when they were visiting in New Haven or through personal correspondence. Among those to whom I am indebted for their assistance with this volume are: J. J. G. Alexander, Thomas Amos, Lilian Armstrong, Francois Avril, Bernhard Bischoff, Virginia Brown, Walter Cahn, Albert Derolez, Dennis Dutschke, A. S. G. Edwards, Hugh Feiss, Mirella Ferrari, David Ganz, Michael Gullick, Jeffrey Ham- burger, James Hankins, Dieter Harlfinger, Michel Huglo, Ranee Katzenstein, Laura Light, James Marrow, Paul Meyvaert, John Monfasani, Francis Newton, Timothy Noone, W. Keith Percival, Julian Plante, Emil Polak, Jean Preston, Michael D. Reeve, Kathleen L. Scott, Patricia Stirnemann, Andrew Watson, Roger Wieck. My colleague, James M. Heath, meticuously proofread the volume in preparation for publication.
The following individuals have been instrumental in helping to trace the provenance of many of the Marston manuscripts: Christopher de Hamel of Sotheby's, Joshua Lipton of H. P. Kraus, and the bookdealers Bernard Rosenthal and Laurence Witten. In addition, we are thankful to the staff of the Hill Monastic Manuscript Library and of the Institut de Recherche et d'Histoire des Textes in Paris for their assistance with identifying incipits and manuscripts.
Throughout the preparation of this volume I have had the good fortune to work with a number of the very talented graduate students at Yale; I owe special thanks to Richard Armstrong, Susan Boynton, Annette Burton, James T. Powell, and Edward Brian Roots.
This project would not have been possible without the encouragement of the administration and staff of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library. Robert Babcock, Curator of Early Books and Manuscripts, has offered valuable advice and clarification on many catalogue entries; George Miles worked miracles with a new indexing program that much simplified the compilation of multiple indices; Stephen Parks and Vincent Giroud answered numerous questions related to English and French provenance; Ralph Franklin, Director of the Beinecke Library, has given continuous, enthusiastic support for this and other projects.
Finally, I am indebted to the National Endowment for the Humanities, which has generously funded the three volumes of this catalogue.
Marston Manuscripts
Marston MS 1 Northeastern Italy, s. XV^^**
Aeneas Cazaeus, Theophrastus, Lat. tr. Ambrogio Traversari, etc.
1. ff. 2r-9v blank (first gathering; foliation begins on preceding flyleaf); ff. 10r-52v Aenee Sophiste. V. CL. Dialogus qui Theophrastus inscribitur Incipit. Collocutores Egyptus Alexandrinus. Euxitheus Syrus. Theophrastus Atheniensis. [in margin: Egyptus] Quo tu Euxithee uel unde. Euxith. E Syria Athenas ferebar o egypte . . . Taeoph. Satis oratum est sed profi- ciscamur. .TEAOZ.
Aeneas Gazaeus, Theophrastus, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari; the names of the interlocutors occur in red throughout the text. Aeneas Gazaeus et Zacharias Mitylenaeus de immortalitate animae . . . Accedit Aeneae interpretatio ab Ambrosia camaldi facta (Paris, 1836) pp. 469-510, reprinted from the Paganini edition (Venice) of 1513.
2. f. 53r-v Diui integerrimique Viri Beati Helennij vita incipit foeliciter. Fuit alius vir sanctus Helennius nomine a puericia hie in seruitio dei omni cum continentia et castissimis institutionibus enutritus . . . nihil ei deerat eorumque poscebat a domino. Finis, ff. 54r-59v blank
Life of St. Helenus, monk in Egypt. Text is an extract (incomplete) taken from the Latin translation by Rufinus of the Historia monachoruvij ch. 11; PL 21.429-30.
Paper (watermarks: Briquet Fleur 6306, and unidentified shrub, ff. i- viii, in gutter; Briquet Tete humaine 15617), fF. i (contemporary parch- ment) + viii (contemporary paper) + 50 (two series of modern foliation) + i (contemporary parchment, stub only), 202 x 143 (133 x 79) mm. 22 long lines. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length and full width, ruled in lead. Guide lines for text in pale brown ink (Derolez 13.13). Remains of prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins.
2 MS 1
I« (ff. i-viii, all blank), 11^^ (ff. 1 and 10 parchment), III-IV^^ (last six leaves blank). Catchwords perpendicular to text on inner vertical bound- ing line in lower margin, verso (Derolez 12.6).
Written in humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.
One large illuminated initial, 5-line, of modest quality, in gold with black accents on a multicolored ground of red, blue and green with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. One smaller initial (unfinished), parchment color on blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. On f. Ir, in lower border an unidentified coat of arms: vert a chief sable [?], overall a lion [?] rampant gules (or purpre?) on the main field and/or in chief and with bend (tincture undetermined) overall; the whole shield over- painted in black. Headings in red.
Binding: Italy, s. xv. Vellum stays are adhered in- and outside the paper gatherings. Original sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps which go through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside where they are pegged. The primary endband, sewn on a tawed skin core, is gilt with traces of a red secondary endband. A design is scratched on the gilt edges.
Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues and blind-tooled with progressively taller concentric frames alternately decorated with five small tools. Five flower-shaped bosses on each board, some wanting, and four fastenings, leaf-shaped catches on the lower board, the upper board cut in for the clasp straps which are attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked.
Written in Northeastern Italy in the middle of the 15th century; owned by an unidentified person whose mutilated arms appear on f. Ir. Inscription, s. xvi, on f. 59v: "frater bonaventura minorum [?]." Inscription, s. xviii, on front pastedown: "Ex libris B. Brunati." Inscription, s. xviii, erased but visible under ultra-violet light on front pastedown: "lohannis Jacobi Dugatiis di Thomarijs liber." Signature, s. xviii^, on front pastedown: "Alberti Bonetti." Unidentified circular white paper tag on spine with handwritten shelf-mark in ink: "Aeneas/4o. 72806 [portion of tag miss- ing]/ L III O." In pencil on front pastedown: "279" and on recto of front flyleaf: "30." Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: humanitatis
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 64, no. 1.
MS 2 3
Marston MS 2 Tuscany, s. XII^/^
Canticum canticorum, with glossa ordinaria
1. ff. lr-63r Obsculetur me osculo oris sui. Quia meliora sunt ubera uino. flagranda unguentis optimis . . . Fuge dilecte mi et asimilare capree. ynuloque ceruonim super monies aromatum.
Canticum canticorum.
2. fF. lr-63r [In upper margin, f. Ir:] Sinagoga id est congregatio. quod et lapidum. Ecclesia conuocatio quod rationalium. Vtraque autem hec portio iustorum ... [in inner margin, f. Ir:] Uox ecdesie optantis christi aduentum ... [in outer margin, f. Ir:] Sinagoga dominum in carne uenire desiderat. ac uenienti deuota caritate occurrat. Tangat me dulcedine presentie sue . . . [interlinear gloss:] delectet me et certificet./ Incarnatione filii. que est quasi pre/ libatio coniunctionis ... [f. 63r:] Cum in montibus figas pedes, dignare dilabi ad ualles. f. 63v blank
Glossa ordinaria; Stegmiiller, v. 9, no. 11804; PL 113.1128-68.
Parchment (scraps, endpieces), ff. iii (paper; ii = modern title page, majuscule inscription within frame: "Canticum canticorum salomonis cum notis interlinearibus et marginalibus/ MS.") + 63 + iii (paper), 178 x 127 (102 X 86) mm. Written in 3 columns, with 8 lines of text and interlinear glosses in the center and up to 26 lines of gloss in the outer two columns. Double vertical bounding lines ruled in hard point on hair side. Text lines ruled faintly in lead. Remains of prickings in upper, lower, and outer (for 8 lines of text only) margins.
I-VII^, VIII® (-8). Quire signatures (e.g., a, b, c, etc.) in lower right corner, verso, or lower left corner, recto.
Text written in large round late Caroline minuscule; commentary in a similar, but smaller script with many abbreviations.
One unpretentious illuminated initial, f. Ir, 3-line, yellow edged in red, against blue and red ground with yellow filigree, filled with stylized vine-stem ornament, white with green and yellow shading. For similar initials see Paris, B. N. lat. 588 (cf. Avril and Zaluska, vol. 1, pp. 53-54, no. 90, pi. XXXIX, attributed to Pistoia). First word of text in alternating letters, red and brown with yellow touches. Small initials in blue or red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout.
Binding: Italy, s. xix. Quarter bound in vellum, spine worm eaten and peeling; blue-grey paper sides. Title in rectangular frame, in ink, on spine: "Cant. Salo. MS."
Written in Tuscany, probably in Pistoia to judge from the style of decora-
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tion, in the fourth quarter of the 12th century; early provenance unknown. Belonged to Marchese Francesco Riccardi del Vernaccia (1648-1719; bookplate) and to Gustavo Cammillo Galletd of Florence (1805-68; bookstamp [effaced] on f. Ir). Collection of Baron Horace de Landau (1824-1903; bookplate stamped with numbers "2242" and "2243" on front pastedown; see his Catalogue des liwes manuscrits et imprimes composant la bibliotheque de M. Horace de Landau [Florence, 1890] v. 2, 46); the collection was maintained by his niece Madame Finaly, of Florence (d. 1938). Unidentified rectangular paper label, white with blue frame, with "113" in ink, on front cover. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [text:] [curre]mus in
[commentary:] [uene]ris. ilia
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 64, no. 2.
Marston MS 4 Oxford, s. XV^/''
Cicero, De ofHciis, De oratore, etc.
Arts. 1-4 are excerpts from an 11th- or early 12th-century supplement to Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni; see E. R. Smits, "A Medieval Supplement to the Beginning of Curtius Rufus's Historia Alexandri: An Edition with Introduction," Viator 18 (1987) pp. 100-112.
1. f. Ir-v blank; f. 2r [Heading:] Oratio heschinis. [text:] [R]eminiscor Athenienses Alexandrum hac nostra in vrbe liberalibus artibus erudi- tum. Et Aristotelis ... si nos obsequentes sibi supplices que [sic] in- uenerit.
Oratio Aeschinis; R. Sabbadini, "Antonio da Romagno e Pietro Marcel- lo," Nuovo Archivio Veneto n.s. 30 (1915) p. 241.
2. f. 2r [Heading:] Oracio demadis. [text:] [A]dmirans vehementer admiror viri Athenienses quonammodo timiditatem incutiens Eschines in deditionem et potestatem . . . suis custodibus consiliis et viribus vacuam facilius diripiat.
Oratio Demadis; Sabbadini, op, city pp. 241-42.
3. f. 2r-v [Heading:] Orado demostenis. [text:] [A]pud vos in questione verti videor. vtrum sumenda sint nobis arma aduersus Alexandrum . . . nee dicamus nolle parere alexandro qui seruiuimus philippo.
MS 4 5
Oratio Demosthenis contra Demadem; Sabbadini, op. cit., p. 242.
4. ff. 2v-4r [Heading:] Oracio demostenis ad Alexandrum. [text:] [N]ichil habet Rex alexander vel fortuna tua maius quam vt possis . . . nullam de tuis laudibus fore quam earn quam [hodie crossed out] hodierno die consequuturus es.
Oratio Demosthenis ad Alexandrum; Sabbadini, op. cit., pp. 243-44; Baron, p. 179. A short quotation from this oration has also been added on f. 123v.
5. f. 4r [Heading:] Responsio alexandri. [text:] [F]acundissime ac disertis- sime Demosthenes audiui et intellexi . . . me omnia que petunt effectu- rum. ffinit. f. 4v ruled, but blank
Ps.-Alexander the Great, Oratio.
6. ff. 5r-82r [Heading, added in upper margin:] Marcij tullij Ciceronis Philosophi Amplissimi. liber primus Officiorum ad marcum filium suum incipit. [text:] [Qjuamquam te marce fili. annum iam audientem Cratippum. idque athenis . . . sed multo fore cariorem, si talibus monu- mentis preceptisque latebre. [added in the same hand as heading on f. 5r:] Excellunt cunctos hij libri philosophorum/ Libri quos scripsit tres tullius officiorum/ . . . lux orbis patrieque Salus meus tota Senatus/ hie plus sole micat cruciatus propter honestum. ff. 82v-84v blank
Cicero, De qfficiis; C. Atzert, ed., Teubner fasc. 28 (1963) pp. 1-123. Text is annotated by contemporary hands in both Latin and Middle English.
7. ff. 85r-119v [C]ogitanti michi sepe numero et memoria Vetera repe- tenti perbeati fuisse quinte frater illi videri solent qui . . . et sic prope dicam decantatas habere debent nisi forte estimatis a. M curio cau- sam.// ff. 120r-123v mostly blank, but with list, pen trials, etc. (see also provenance)
Cicero, De oratore; K. Kumaniecki, ed., Teubner fasc. 3 (1969) pp. 1- 160. The text, which seems to follow MS A, is defective: breaks abruptly on f. lOOv, line 5, at 1.128 and resumes in 1.157 [" . . . vox tragedorum gestum pene summorum// citacione non sane michi displicit adhibere si cum [space] fueris adeptus eciam ista locorum. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. 105r, line 23, at 1.193 and resumes at 11.60 [" . . . hoste habet fontes omnium disputacionum suarum qui iure ciuili // scripserunt voluerunt [?] vulgo intelligi in philosophos nostros. si quando incidero quam est ornatus indicibus librorum qui sunt fere inscripti de rebus notis et. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. 106v, line 11, at 11.69 and resumes
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at 11.19 [" . . . que in ilia arte efFici possunt a doctore tradantur// Turn catulus ne gret [sic] quidem inquit crasse qui in ciuitatibus suis magni et clari fiierint. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. 108r, line 3, at 11.30 and resumes in 11.39 [" . . . hii postea arriserint res michi videtur esse inquit facultate preclara arte // eloquentem vel optime facere oportet vt eloquenciam laudet Debet enim ad earn laudandam ipsam illam adhi- bere quam laudat. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. 109r, line 17, at 11.50 and resumes in 11.30 [" . . . diserte quam que in lite dicuntur obiurgacio cohortacio // mediocris ars enim earum rerum est que sciuntur orato- ris. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. llOv, line 3, in 11.39 and resumes in an unidentified passage [*'... subtiliter visus es turn laudare copiosissime Quod quidem // ei dicendum esse de rebus maximis et grauiter et ornate quia..."]; breaks abruptly and resumes on f. llOv, line 12, at 11.69 [" . . . summa cum laude ac dignitate ipsius omne versari officium statuo // sed velut qui primarum ac ceterarum rerum genera ipsa didicerunt. . ."]; breaks abruptly on f. 113v, line 18, in 11.90 and re- sumes in II. 92 [" . . . quem dilegeret imitando effigat etque [sic] expri- mat // Quid enim cause cencetis [sic] esse cur etates extulerunt singule singula. . ."]; the manuscript breaks off imperfectly in 11.140.
Parchment, ff i (paper) + 123 + i (paper), 221 x 168 (ff 2-4: 158 x 98 mm., 30 long lines; ff 3-83: 152 x 98 mm., 28 long lines; ff. 85-119: 160 x 95 mm., 28 long lines), ff 2-64: single vertical and single horizontal (upper and/or lower) bounding lines; remainder of text: single vertical bounding lines. Ruled in pen or crayon; remains of prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins.
I-X^ XI^ XII-XV^ XVI« (-8).
Scribe 1: ff 2r-4r, sloping humanistic cursive script with gothic fea- tures; above top line. Scribe 2: ff 5r-61v, well spaced and well formed gothic script with large uncrossed tironian et, prominent descenders on long s and /; below top line; horizontal catchwords in lower margin to right of center with bracket on left extending below words. Scribe 3: ff. 61v-82r, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line; no remains of catchwords. Scribe 4: ff 85r-119v, upright English gothic bookhand; below top line; catchwords enclosed in crudely executed scrolls, lower margin to right of center. Interlinear and marginal glosses in art. 6 in at least two contemporary or slightly later annotating hands.
Spaces for decorative initials and most headings remain unfilled; re- mains of guide letters for arts. 1-5.
Binding: England, s. xix-xx. Half bound in dark brown goatskin, gold- tooled, with dark pink cloth sides. Edges spattered red. Title on spine: "Cicero/ De Officiis/ MS./ Saec. XV."
MS 4 7
Written in the third quarter of the 15th century probably at Oxford according to A. C. de la Mare, who has also suggested that the gothic bookhands in the manuscript are very close to that in Paris, B. N. lat. 6729, a Renaissance miscellany with ex libris dated 1473 of John Gun- thorpe (dean of Wells, d. 1498). The letters "N. K." (s. xvii) appear several times in the manuscript (e.g., f. Iv, 2r, etc.); early notation on f. Ir crossed out. List, s. xvii, crudely written on f. 120r: "lacobus Rex/ lames Kinge/ I-a-go [sic] Brenhin/ Avna Regina/ Anva Queue/ Agnes Brenhines/ Henricus Princeps Cambrie/ Dux Cornubie/ Comes Cestrie." The "Bren- hines" (owners of the manuscript?) remain unidentified. Off-set impres- sion of rectangular bookplate on front pastedown. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill (note on back pastedown) in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio', [f. 3:] nee
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 64, no. 4.
Marston MS 6 Northern Italy, 1420s and XV"^"^/^
Cicero, Orationes, De oratore, Orator, Brutus, etc. PI. 13
I. 1. ff. Ir-llv Marci Tulij Ciceronis oratio pro S. Pompeio. Quanquam michi semper frequens conspectus uester multo iocundissimus. hie autem locus ad agendum amplissimus . . . reipublicae digni- tatem et salutem prouinciarum atque sociorum meis omnibus commodis et rationibus preferre oportere.
Cicero, De imperio Cn. Pompeii; P. Reis, ed., Teubner v. 6,1 (1931) pp. 3-34.
2. ff. llv-27v M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro Milone. Etsi uereor. indices ne turpe sit pro fortissimo uiro dicere incipientem timere minime- que deceat cum. T. Annius ipse magis de rei publicae salute quam de sua perturbetur . . . michi credite is maxime probabit qui in iudicibus legendis optimum et sapientissimum et fortissimum quemque delegit.
Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 13-66.
3. f llv [In margin:] Titus Anius Milo ciuis romanus sibi infestissi- mum et inimicissimum romanum ciuem Publium Clodium habuit multeque inter hos duos altercationes in re publica sepe fuerunt
MS 6
specialiter uero cum Milo consulatum anni peteret . . . Cicero ergo Milonis amicissimus [some text lost] et summo artificio context- am.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis Milonianae. The introduc- tions to ten of the speeches in this codex (arts. 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, 20, 23, 26, 30) were composed by Antonio Loschi between 1391 and 1405 (see R. Sabbadini, Le scoperte dei codici latini e greci ne* secoli xiv e xv [Florence, 1905-14; reprinted 1967] pp. 122-23); Marston MS 6 does not, however, follow the usual order of speeches noted by M. D. Reeve in Texts and Transmission, p. 87. In Marston MS 6 the argumentum of Loschi's text was either written by the scribe in the text immediately before the speech (arts. 20, 30) or was added in a smaller script in the margins next to the speech (arts. 3, 5, 9, 11, 17, 19, 23, 26).
A comparison of Loschi's introductions in Marston MS 6 with those in the text edited by Girolamo Squarciafico and printed in Venice after 2 June 1477 byjohann von Koln and Johann Man- then reveals substantial differences, particularly in the introduc- tions to Pro rege Deiotaro (art. 11) and to Pro Plancio (art. 17).
4. ff. 27v-32r M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro Archia poeta. Si quid est in me ingenij Indices quod sentio quam [sit added later] exiguum aut si qua exercitacio dicendi in qua me non inficior mediocriter esse uersatum . . . esse in bonam partem accepta ab eo qui Indici- um exercet certe scio.
Cicero, Pro Archia poeta; P. Reis, ed., Teubner fasc. 19 (1949) pp. 43-57.
5. f. 27v [In margin:] Aulus Licinius Archias poeta Anthichie natus rome uixit in amicicia et gratia multorum clarissimorum ciuium romanorum et a nonnullis grecis populis honoratus et eorum ciuitatibus donatus fuit . . . ac nichil puto uirtuti poete qui hoc solo nomine omnia merito debuit consequi et eloquentie Cicero- nis non impetratum fuisse.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro Aulo Licinio Archia poeta; see art. 3 above.
6. ff. 32v-39r M. T Ciceronis oratio habita in senatu de reditu in patriam. Si patres conscripti pro uestris immortalibus in me fra- tremque meum liberosque nostros meritis parum nobis cumulate gracias egero . . . presertim cum ilia amissa recuperauerim uirtu- tem et fidem nunquam amiserim.
MS 6
Cicero, Oratio cum senatui gratias egit; T. Maslowski, ed., Teubner fasc. 21 (1981) pp. 3-19.
7. f. 32v [In margin:] Cum illud in ceteris orationibus satis expli- catum sit quomodo Cicero propter inimicorum furorem e patria recedere. uoluit malens consulere patrie iacturam suam potius quam discrimen facere uoluit. Euersa fuit domus fundi tus. direpta predia et bona omnia, migrauit in Ciciliam . . . haberemus [?] ista clarissima.
Unidentified argumentum to Cicero, Oratio cum senatui gratias egit; much of text illegible.
8. ff. 39r-44r M, T. Ciceronis oratio pro Q. Ligario. Nouum crimen. C. Cesar et ante hunc diem inauditum propinquus meus ad te. Q. Tutero [sic] detulit. Q. Legarium in africa fuisse . . . admonebo si illi absenti salutem dederis presentibus his omnibus te daturum. finit pro Q. ligario.
Cicero, Pro Q, Ligario; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 84-100.
9. f. 39r [In margin:] Q. Ligarius ciuis romanus cum S. Considio consule prefectus est legatus in Africam ante ciuilis belli princi- pium deinde prouincia decedente Considio. Q. Ligarius prefectus prouincie mansit . . . Cicero ipsum Ligarium hac insigni oratione defendit pro qua gratiam Cesaris nititur impetrare.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro Q. Ligario; see art. 3 above.
10. ff. 44r-50v Incipit pro rege deiotaro. M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro [Q. Ligario crossed out] rege Deiotaro. Cum in omnibus causis grauioribus. C. Cesar initio dicendi commoueri soleam uehe- mentius quam uidetur uel usus uel etas mea postulare . . . Quo- rum alterum optare illorum crudelitatis est, Alterum conseruare clemencie tue.
Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 101-19.
11. f. 44v [In margin;] Deiotarus rex gallogrecie populo romano amicissimus cum pompeio fuit. qui post farsalicam pugnam domi se contulit. Ac donque [?] g. Cesari bella gerenti subsidia administra- uit . . . est subornatus a Castore nepote ex filia deiotari. quas accu- sationes . . . coram Cesare totius fere orbis domitore.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro rege Deiotaro; see art. 3 above.
10 MS 6
12. ff. 50v-54v M T. Ciceronis oratio [pro rege Deitareo crossed out] habita ad populum pridie qiuim iret in exilium. Si quandoque inimi- conim impetum propulsare et propellere me cupistis defendite nunc universi unum qui ne omnes periretis ardore flamme occi- dentis mei capitis periculo prouidere non dubitaui . . . ut quern sepe numero uestra laude cohonestastis eundem in dubijs uite pe- riculis uestra uirtute conseruetis.
Ps.-Cicero, Oratio antequam in exilium iret; M. Gianascian, M. Tullius Cicero in Scriptorum romanorum quae extant omnia v. 102-03 (Venice, 1968) pp. 160-72.
13. f. 50v [In margin:] Omisso titulo huius orationis quod non satis habeo compertum quis earn composuerit materiam eius brevis- sime attingam. Eo namque tempore quo Cicero consul erat et forte nonnulli eum scelerato illo consilio L. Cateline [sic] conspi- rarent . . . flores ex dictis Ciceronis et non habet stillum suum prout patet.
Unidentified argumentum to Ps.-Cicero, Oratio anteqtiam in exilium iret; according to M. D. Reeve this introduction also appears in Paris, Bibliotheque de TArsenal 1042.
14. ff. 54v-58v M. T. Ciceronis oratio de congratulacione sui reditus ad patriam apud quirites incipit foeliciter. Quod precatus a love Optimo maximo ceterisque dijs immortalibus sum quirites eo tempore cum me fortunasque meas pro uestra incolumitate . . . non posse tenere se nisi me recuperasset cunctis suffragijs iudicauit.
Cicero, Oratio cum populo gratias egit; T. Maslowski, ed., Teubner fasc. 19 (1981) pp. 22-32.
15. f. 54v [In margin:] Cum Cicero superiori oratione patribus con- scriptis gratias egerit de restitucione sua in patriam illud animo previdit non praetermictendum esse: gracias agere populo ro- mano qui maxime in eo restituendo senserat. Voluit itaque infin- itas . . . [conclusion stained and illegible].
Unidentified argumentum to Cicero, Oratio cum populo gratias egit.
16. ff. 58v-76v M, T. Ciceronis oratio de congratulacione sui reditus ad patriam apud quirites [incipit crossed out 2indjinit written above] feliciter M. T, Ciceronis oratio pro Cn. Plancio. Cum propter egre- giam et singularem. Cn. Plancij indices in mea salute custodenda [sic] fidem tam multos et bonos uiros eius honori uiderem esse fautores . . . quoniam istis uestris lacrimis recordor de illis quas pro me sepe et multum profudistis.
MS 6 ^ n
Cicero, Pro Cn. Plancio; E. Olechowska, ed., Teubner fasc. 25 (1981) pp. 1-51.
17. f. 58v [In margin; much of the text is stained and illegible, with only portions visible under ultra-violet light:] Gneus plancius ciuis romanus ex equestre ordine et latercusta [?] ... sue defensionis assignans eo quod maximis Plancij meritis sit obstrictus.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro Cn. Plancio; see art. 3 above.
18. ff. 76v-81r M. T. Ciceronis oratio indpit pro Marcello. Diuturni silencij patres conscripti quo eram his temporibus usus non timore aliquo sed partim dolore partim uerecundia finem hodi- ernus attulit dies . . . quod fieri iam posse non arbitrabar magnus hie tuo facto cumulus accesserit.
Cicero, Pro M. Marcello; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 69- 81.
19. f. 76v [In margin; most of the text is stained and illegible, with only portions visible under ultra-violet light:] M. Marcellus ciuis romanus amplissimus atque clarissimus in dissensione ciuili fuit cum pompeio quemadmodum fuit et Cicero cum multis aliis senatoribus . . . qua non possit dignitas rei publicae neque restitui neque seruari.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis de laudibus Cesaris occasione M. Marcelli per Cesarem restituti; see art. 3 above.
20. f 81v [Introduction:] Pro Silla [sic]. Silla et Antronius [sic] romani ciues petentes ambo consulatum. per ambitionem obtinuerunt contra L. Torquatum patrem huius torquati . . . quam ipse consul aperuit et indicauit Sillam in hac oratione defendit.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro Sulla; see art. 3 above.
21. ff. 81v-96v M T. Ciceronis oratio incipit pro P. Silla [sic]. Maxime uellem indices ut. P. Silla et antea dignitatis sue splendorem obti- neret et post calamitatem acceptam. modestie fructum aliquem percipere potuisset . . . mansuetudine et misericordia uestra falsam a nobis crudelitatis famam repellamus.
Cicero, Pro P. Sulla; H. Kasten, ed., Teubner fasc. 19 (1949) pp. 2-40.
22. ff. 96v-lllv M T. Ciceronis oratio pro L. Flacco Valerio. Cum in maximis periculis huius urbis atque imperij grauissimo atque acer-
12 MS 6
bissimo rei publicae casu socio atque adiutore . . . nomen clarissi- mum et fortissimum uel generis uel uetustatis uel hominis causa rei publicae reseruate.
Cicero, Pro L. Flacco; L. Fruechtel, ed., Teubner v. 6,2 (1933) pp. 182-243.
23. f. 96v [In margin:] L. Flaccus ciuis romanus unus de adiutori- bus Ciceronis et defensoribus patrie in coniuratione Catiline fuit pretor in Asia et cum expleta . . . [conclusion is mostly stained and illegible:] lesus est a Cicerone [one word illegible] nobili [?] est defenditur.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro L. Flacco; see art. 3 above.
24. ff. lllv-124v M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro M. Celio incipit foeliciter. Si quis indices forte nunc adsit ignarus legum iudiciorum con- suetudinis nostre miretur profecto que sit tanta auctoritas . . . uos podssimum iudices fructus uberes diuturnosque capietis.
Cicero, Pro M Caelio; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 7 (1919) pp. 277- 332.
25. ff. 125r-138r M. T. C. oratio pro. P, Qutntio incipit. Que res in ciuitate due plurimum possunt he contra nos ambe faciunt in hoc tempore summa gracia et eloquencia . . . quae existimacio. P. Quintium usque ad senectutem perduxit eadem usque ad rogum prosequatur,
Cicero, Pro P. Quinctio; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 4 (1923) pp. 4- 44.
26. f. 125r [In margin; one line at beginning of text lost due to trimming of upper margin:] //Quintii stante ilia societate defuncti hereditas pervenit ad P. Quintium fratrem suum quem P. Q. cum uellet . . . pro Quintio perorauit hac elegantissima oratione.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro P. Quincino [sic]; see art. 3 above.
27. ff. 138r-148v M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro, L. Comelio Balbo incipit. Si auctoritates patronorum in iudicijs ualerent ab amplissimis uiris. L. Cornelij causa defensa est si usus a peritissimis . . . uos in hac causa non de maleficio L. Cornelij sed de beneficio. Cn. Pompeij iudicaturos.
Cicero, Pro L. Comelio Balbo; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 7 (1919) pp. 361-400.
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28. ff. 148v-169r M T. Ciceronis oratio pro Sex. Roscio incipitfeliciter. Credo ego uos iudices mirari quid sit quod cum tot summi orato- res hominesque nobilissimi sedeant ego potissimum surrexerim . . . qui natura mitissimi sumus assiduitate molestiarum sensum omnem humanitatis ex animis amittimus.
Cicero, Pro Sex. Roscio Amerino; H. Kasten, ed., Teubner fasc. 8 (1968) pp. 1-60.
29. ff. 169r-181r M. T. Ciceronis pro Lucio Murena oratio incipit. Que deprecatus ab dijs immortalibus sum iudices more institutoque maiorum illo die quo auspicato comitijs centuriatis . . . hos ad magistros si qua te fortuna Cato cum ista natura detulisset non tu quidem uir melior esses nee fortior nee temperatior nee iustior// ff. 181v-184r ruled, but blank
Cicero, Pro Murena, with text ending imperfectly at 31.64; H. Kasten, ed., Teubner fasc. 18 (1961) pp. 1-32.
30. ff. 184v-185r [Introduction:] Aulus Cluentius abitus et Statins Albius oppianicius [sic] romani ciues ambo ex municipio Larinate fuerunt ab initio inimici . . . quodque iddem [sic] facere uoluisset in filio oppianico adolescente Cicero ipsum egregie hac mirabili oratione proxsequenti [?] defendit. [followed by:] Constitucio cause in qua hec habetur oratio. Ut plane intelligamus in qua institucione hec oratio cause habeatur . . . et sentencie constitucio- nis incidunt ut suis dicetur in locis. [followed by a final passage, 4-lines:] M. T. Ciceronis oratio sequitur que in genere iudici- ali Et primo facit audi to res dociles.
Antonio Loschi, Argumentum orationis pro Aula Cluentio Habito, Constitutio cause in qua hec habet oratio; final four lines are uniden- tified. See also art. 3 above.
31. ff. 185v-212v M. T. Ciceronis oratio pro Cluentio incipit. Animad- uerti iudices omnem accusatoris orationem in duas diuisam esse partes quarum altera . . . Postea autem cum appropinquare huius indicium ei [est crossed out] nuntiatum est confestim hue aduo- lauit ne aut accusatoribus diligentia aut pecunia testibus deesset aut ne forte// ff. 213r-216v ruled, but blank
Cicero, Pro A. Cluentio, with text ending imperfectly at 67.192; L. Fruechtel, ed., Teubner v. 6,1 (1931) pp. 37-135. According to S. Rizzo, Catalogo dei codici delta Pro Cluentio Ciceroniana (Genoa, 1983) p. 87, the text of this oration belongs to "fam. a."
14 MS 6
32. ff. 217r-230v M T. Ciceronis pro P. Sextio oratio incipit. Si quis antea iudices mirabatur quid esset quod pro tantis opibus rei publicae tantaque dignitate imperij nequaquam satis multi ciues forti et magno animo inuenirentur ... ut si me saluum esse uoluistis eos conserueUs per quos me recuperauistis. Deo Cracias Amen. ff. 231r-233v ruled, but blank
Cicero, Pro P, Sestio; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 7 (1919) pp. 161- 250.
II. 33. ff. 234r-324r [Heading:] M. T. C. de oratore Liber primus Incipit. [text:] Cogitanti michi sepe numero et memoria Vetera repetenti perbeati fuisse Quinte frater illi uideri solent qui in optima re publica . . . Sed iam surgamus inquit nosque curemus et aliquando ab hac contencione disputacionis animos nostros curamque laxemus.
Cicero, De oratore; K. Kumaniecki, ed., Teubner fasc. 3 (1969) pp. 1-362.
34. ff. 324v-353v [Added in pencil:] de perfecto oratore ad Marium [sic] Brutum. [text:] Utrum difficilius aut maius esset negare tibi sepius idem roganti an efficere id quod rogares diu multumque brute dubitaui . . . dum tibi roganti uoluerim obsequi uerecundia negandi scribendi me impudentiam suscepisse. Deo gratias. [added in pencil:] Explicit de oratore ad M. Brutum.
Cicero, Orator, P. Reis, ed., Teubner fasc. 5 (1932) pp. 1-92.
35. ff. 354r-393r [Added in pencil:] de claris oratoribus. [text:] Cum e Cilicia decedens rhodum venissem et eo michi de. Q. hortensii morte esset allatum opinione omnium maiorem animo cepi dolorem . . . dico si michi accidisset ut mirarer in multis si operosa est a concursatio magis opportunorum. Marci tullii Cice- ronis dialog! qui de oratore Ad brutum de claris ac illustribus ora- toribus inscribuntur expliciunt. ff. 393v-398v ruled, but blank
Cicero, Brutus; E. Malcovati, ed., Teubner fasc. 4 (1965) pp. 1- 105.
Composed of two distinct parts, ff. 398 + v (paper), 270 x 202 mm.
Part I: ff. 1-232, paper (ff. 1 and 10 only are parchment; watermarks: unidentified letter B), written space 185 x 125 mm. Some leaves with commentary in margin (e.g., f 11) are slightly larger and now folded vertically in outer margin. 35 long lines. Single vertical bounding lines, ruled in lead. Guide lines for text in pale brown ink. Prickings in upper margin; often there are single prickings in outer margin, 3 mm. above top
MS 6 15
line and 3 mm. below bottom line. I-XVIII^^ XIX^ XX-XXIII^^ XXTV^. Catchwords, with dots and flourishes to left and right, center of lower margin, verso. Written by a single scribe in a fere-humanistic script characterized by the broadness of majuscule letter forms; written below top line. Elegantly decorated title-page (f. Ir), that may (as has been suggested by A. C. de la Mare and L. Armstrong) have been executed in two stages. In the first, a full border: in inner and upper margins, thin gold bar with flowers in mauve, blue and gold and stylized foliage in green with pale yellow highlights; in outer and lower margins, floral border of black inkspray with flowers in mauve and blue and with some gold accents and stylized foliage in green. In center of lower margin, a shield with unidentified coat of arms, much rubbed (gules, two augers [?] in saltire, or, banded sable) supported by two standing nude female figures with flowing blond hair (bath-maidens?). In the second stage, an historiated initial, 12-line, mauve, green and pink against gold ground, with extreme- ly fine portrait in profile of a man wearing a two-tiered red cap and academic gown against a blue background with a geometric pattern in black and greyish blue. It has been noted that the face closely resembles portraits of Guarino da Verona found in manuscripts of his translations of Strabo's Geography (olim Phillipps 6645 and Albi, Bibliotheque municipale MS 4), as well as on a medal of Matteo de' Pasti (cf. Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 224-25, no. 48). 6-line initials, blue with red penwork designs alter- nate red with purple for the beginning of each text. Headings in red.
Part II: ff 233-398, paper (watermarks: Briquet Tete de boeuf 15068, and Piccard Ochsenkopf VII.40), written space 192 x 130 mm. 2 columns, 40 lines. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines ruled in hard point; text rulings in crayon. Single pricking in outer margin even with top line. Accurate collation difficult due to tight binding and absence of signatures or catchwords. Written in a small gothic script with cursive features, below top line. Red and black divided initial, 6-line, with plain designs on f. 234r; plain red initials some with simple designs, 5- to 2-line, elsewhere. Paragraph marks and initial strokes in red. The dark acidic ink has bled through many leaves; no loss of text.
Binding: France, s. xviii. Gold-tooled brown, mottled calf spine. Edges gilt. Boards, composed of paper pasteboard, are detached.
The precise origin and date of the manuscript are problematic. The text of Part I appears to have been written in the 1420s according to A. C. de la Mare, but the decoration of both the border and miniature appear to have been added in the mid- 15th century. On general stylistic grounds, the illumination resembles manuscripts produced in Ferrara; J. J. G. Alexander has pointed to the similarity of the border decoration in
16 MS 6
Marston MS 6 with that in Glasgow, University Library MS Hunter 425, which may have been produced in Bologna (Exhib. cat., The Glory of the Page [London, 1987] p. 138, no. 7). The portrait of Guarino certainly suggests an association with his circle of humanists. Part II appears to have been written in Northern Italy, but somewhat later, probably in the middle or third quarter of the 15th century. The pattern of stains indicates that Parts I and II were once separate; it is unclear when they were bound together. Unidentified inscription along the upper edge of f. Ir. Pur- chased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [f. 2] agitur
[f. 235] poetarum
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, pp. 64-65, no. 6. Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 224-25, no. 48.
Marston MS 7 Florence, s. XV"
Cicero, Orationes, etc.
1. ff lr-8v M. Tullii Ciceronis Philippicarum in M. Antonium liber .1. incipit. Ante quam de re publica patres conscripti dicam ea que dicenda hoc tempore arbitror exponam uobis breuiter . . . hue siquid accesserit non tam michi quam uobis rei publiceque accesserit. Philippicarum in -M. Antonium liber .II incipit.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica I; F. Schoell, ed., Teubner fasc. 8 (1918) pp. 128-45.
2. ff. 9r-32r Quoniam meo fato patres conscripti fieri dicam ut nemo his annis uiginti rei publice fuerit hostis qui non bellum eodem tempore michi quoque indixerit ... a diis immortalibus clari nichil potest al- terum ut ita cuique eueniat [corrected from eueniet] ut eueniet ut de re publica quis mereatur.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica 11; Schoell, op. cit.y pp. 147-202.
3. ff. 32r-40r Serius omnino patres conscripti quam tempus rei publice postulauit aliquando tamen conuocati sumus . . . de his rebus ad hunc ordinem referant ita uti de re publica fideque sua consuerint.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica III; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 204-22.
4. ff. 40r-43v Frequentia uestrum incredibilis contioque tanta quantam meminisse non uideor . . . interuallo [corrected from intelruallo] me auctore et principe ad spem libertatis exarsimus.
MS 7 17
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica IV; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 222-29.
5. fF. 43v-50r Nichil unquam longius kalendis ianuariis mihi uisum est patres conscripti quod idem intelligebam . . . Alie nationes seruitutem pad possunt populi romani res est propria libertas.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica V; In M. Antonium oratio Philip- pica VI; written as one speech, but is in fact the beginning of the Fifth Philippic and the end of the Sixth Philippic combined into a single oration; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 231-45 and 262-63. The break occurs on f. 50r, line 12: "... Quam ob rem patres conscripti legatorum men- tionem [Phil. V, ch. 12, sect. 31, Teubner p. 245] // numquam uidi tantam quanta nunc uestra est. Vnum sentids omnes . . . [Phil. VI, ch. 7, sect. 18, Teubner p. 262]-"
6. ff. 50v-55r Paruis de rebus sed fortasse necessariis consulimur patres conscripti . . . hoc ardore populi romani potes in perpetuum metu et periculo rem publicam libertare [sic].
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica VII; Schoell, op. cit, pp. 263-73.
7. ff. 55r-61v Confusius hesterno die est acta res .c. pansa quam postu- labat . . . Profectus praeter .L. uarium senatum existimaturum eum contra rem publicam fecisse.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica VIII; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 275-89.
8. ff. 61v-65r Vellem dii imortales [sic] fecissent patres conscripti ut uiuo potius quam mortuo honores queremus ... uti quod optimo iure se- pulcrum ipsius publice datum est.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica IX; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 290-98.
9. ff. 65v-70v Maximas tibi pansa gratias omnes et habere et agere debe- mus . . . legatis suis prouintiam macedoniam obtinere quo ad ex senatus consulto successum sit.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica X; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 299-312.
10. ff. 70v-79v Magno in dolore sum patres conscripti uel merore potius quem [sic] ex crudeli et miserabili morte . . . quae cum ita sint earn quam dixi sententiam uobis patres conscripti censeo comprobandam.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica XI; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 313-32.
11. ff. 79v-87v Etsi minime decere uidetur patres conscripti falli decipi errare eum cui uos maximis sepe de rebus . . . idque potissimum facien- dum quod maxime interesse rei publicae iudicauero.
18 MS 7
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica XII; Schoell, op, cit., pp. 333-46.
12. ff. 87v-97v Belli patres conscripti quod cum impiis ciuibus scelera- tisque suscepimus . . . ut proprio senatus consulto pompeius collaudatus esse uideatur.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica XIII; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 347- 72.
13. ff. 98r-105v M. T. Ciceronis Philippicarum Liber .XIII. et Ultimus. Sicut ex litteris que recitate sunt patres conscripti sceleratissimorum hostium exercitum cesum [corrected from cessum] fusumque . . . que militibus ipsis tribui oporteret si illi uixissent qui morte uixerunt. Explicit.
Cicero, In M. Antonium oratio Philippica XTV; Schoell, op. cit., pp. 374- 89.
14. ff. 105v-lllv Quousque tandem abutere .o. Catilina patientia nostra . . . inter se ac nefaria sotietate conuictos [?] eternis supplicijs uiuos defunctosque mactabis.
Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam prima; P. Reis, ed., Teubner fasc. 6,2 (1933) pp. 5-22.
15. ff. lllv-117v Tandem aliquando quirites .L catilinam furentem audacia scelus hanelantem \sic] pestem . . . hanc omnibus hostium copiis terra marique superatis. a proditissimorum ciuium nefario scelere defendant.
Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam secunda; Reis, op. cit., pp. 22-37.
16. ff 117v-124r Incipit Liber Tertius. Rem publicam quirites uitamque omnium uestrum .bona .fortunas coniuges liberosque uestros atque hoc domicilium . . . atque ut in perpetua pace esse possitis prouidebo quirites.
Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam tertia; Reis, op. cit., pp. 38-53.
17. ff. 124r-129v Incipit Liber Quartus. Uideo patres conscripti in me omnium ora atque oculos esse conuersos uideo uos non solum de uestro periculo . . . et ea que statueritis defendere quo ad uiuet et per se ipsum prestare possit. Inuectiuarum quatuor M. Tullij Ciceronis .in .L. Catilinam feliciter expliciunt.
Cicero, Oratio in Catilinam quarta; Reis, op. cit., pp. 55-68.
18. ff 130r-131r Grauiter et iniquo animo maledicta tua paterer .M.
MS 7 19
Tullij si te scirem iudicio animi magis quam morbo petulantia ista uti . . . trasfuga [sic], neque in hac neque in ilia parte fidem habens.
Ps.-Sallust, Invectiva in M. Tullium Ciceronem; M. Gianascian, ed., C. Sallustivs Crispus, in Scriptorum romanorum quae extant omnia, v. 49 (Venice, 1965) v. 1, pp. 83-86.
19. ff. 131v-135r Ea demum tibi magna uoluptas est .C. Salusti equalem ac parem uerbis uitam agere . . . Salustius debeat audire merito. sed ut ea dicam siqua ego honeste effari possim. M. Tullij Ciceronis Oratio in .C. Salustium Feliciter explicit, ff. 135v-137v ruled, but blank
Ps.-Cicero, Invectiva in Crispum Sallustium; Gianascian, op. cit., v. 1, pp. 87-95.
Parchment, ff. iii (modern parchment) + ii (contemporary parchment; i = original pastedown with passage, now erased but partially visible under ultraviolet light, from Cicero's Pro Q. Ligario: "//hijs omnibus quam caret . . . et in nostrum fletum in//"; in humanistic script) + 137 (early foliation runs 1-106, arts. 1-13; 1-24, arts. 14-17; 1-2, art. 18; 1-4, art. 19; skips from 82 to 84) + i (contemporary parchment, original pastedown or flyleaf?) + iii (modern parchment). 270 x 183 mm.
The manuscript was copied by two scribes who exhibit distinct formats and scripts reflecting the transition from gothic to humanistic types of book production.
Scribe I: ff. l-107r, line 14. Written space 185-90 x 109 mm. Ca. 27-28 long lines. Ruled in hard point on hair side in several formats: single upper and/or lower vertical and double horizontal bounding lines (Dero- lez 13.32 and 13.33); single horizontal and vertical bounding lines in first quire (Derolez 13.12 and 13.13). Remains of prickings in upper and lower margins. Written in a very fine early humanistic bookhand, above top line; catchwords slightly toward right of center, lower margin (Derolez 12.2); remains of quire and leaf signatures (e.g., 2a, 3a, 4a, etc.).
Scribe II: ff. 107r, line 15-135r. Written space 185 x 111 mm. Ca. 27 long lines. Ruled in ink or lead. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines (Derolez 13.12 and 13.13). Remains of prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins. Written in a semi-gothic script, below top line, in a style of writing similar to that used by Coluccio Salutati; strong gothic influence in forms of majuscules. According to A. C. de la Mare the hand resembles most closely that on f. 61r-v of Florence, Bib. Laur. 78,11, which contains corrections by Salutati himself in the main portion of the manuscript. Catchwords, surrounded by flourishes, center of lower margin (Derolez 12.1); same kind of leaf signatures as above.
20 MS 7
I-vIIIl^ Ix^ x-xiii^^ xivi** (-10).
Twenty-three illuminated initials of fine quality, 6- to 2-line, yellow on rectangular bright blue grounds with narrow black frames. Grounds filled with restrained and stylized thin white vine-stem ornament and intricate white filigree. Most spaces for rubrics left unfilled (see also provenance below).
Binding: England, s. xix. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (London, 1842-1930) in brown goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled spine "Cicero" and "MS." Yellow edges. Discoloration on early parchment endleaves reveals traces of corner tongues.
Written in Florence probably at the beginning of the 15th century accord- ing to A. C. de la Mare, to judge from the style of scripts and early design of the vine-stem initials. Owned by the humanist Guglielmino Tanaglia (1391-1460; see A. C. de la Mare, "Humanistic Script: The First Ten Years," Das Verhdltnis der Humanisten zum Bitch, eds. F. Krafft and D. Wuttke, Kommissionfiir Humanismiisforschung Mitteilung 4 [Boppard, 1977] pp. 105-06, figs. 8-9). Tanaglia annotated the text in a small neat book- hand, added some headings, the foliation and running titles; he also wrote the table of contents and a quote from Juvenal {Sat. 10.122-25) on f iv verso. On f v recto is the erased bilingual ex libris (visible under ultra- violet light) of Lorenzo di Giovanni Tornabuoni (d. 1497), who was a student of Politian: "6 pipXio^ [?] ectti Aaupevjiou toO Topvup6vou Kai Tcov (t>iA,a)v/ hie liber est Laurentij de Tornybonis et amicorum." Torna- buoni annotated the text in a sprawling humanistic cursive script (e.g., lower margin of f. 2r) and wrote an unidentified quotation ("Hec pro- missa seruanda sunt ea que quibus promisoris sunt/ Inutilia et forte plus noceant quam prosint"; perhaps a paraphrase of Cicero, De Officiis in. 94.1?) on f. v recto and one from Demosthenes' First Olynthiac, sect. 20, on the recto of the final original flyleaf ("6ei bk xpn^dTtov Kai aveu . . . Twv 6e6vTO)v"). Unidentified shelf-marks include: "N. III. 20." in ink, s. xv-xvi, f. iv verso; "N xyj" in ink, s. xvi, on final flyleaf; "B: 4-48" in ink, f. Ir. From the collection of William Charles de Meuron, 7th Earl Fitz- william (1872-1943; bookplate); sold by his heir (Sotheby's, 26 April 1948, no. 474). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill (inv. no. 1213) in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio', liberatores
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 65, no. 7. The Medieval Book, p. 107, no. 103.
MS 8 21
Marston MS 8 Italy, s. XV"*^
Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
ff. 1-2 flyleaves; ff. 3r-78v Et sinegocijs familiaribus impediti. Vix satis otium studio suppeditare possumus . . . Ergo amplius in arte rethorica nihil est. hec omnia adipiscemur si rationes preceptionis diligentia conse- quemur exercitationis. [added by another hand:] deo gratias. amen.
Ps.-Cicero, De ratione dicendi ad C. Herennium; F. Marx, ed., Teubner, fasc. 1 (1923) pp. 1-192; reissued with addenda by W. Trillitsch (Leipzig, 1964). Divisions for Books 2, 3, 4 on ff. 13r, 31r, and 46r; running head- lines, probably giving number of book, now trimmed. Text has a large quantity of interlinear material (in at least three hands) that is intended to help the reader through the Latin text by providing synonyms, referents for pronouns, etc.; annotations are less frequent after f. 52v. Some mar- ginal glosses, often partially trimmed.
Parchment (palimpsest throughout, from many different manuscripts, s. XV, primarily documents that were previously folded and a large service book with musical notation), ff. i (paper) + i (modern parchment, f. 1) + i (contemporary parchment, f. 2) + 76 (ff. 3-78) + i (modern parchment, f. 79) + i (paper), 195 x 135 (140 x 80) mm. 24 long lines. Single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, mostly full length and full width; ruled in crayon or lead.
I-IX®, X^. Remains of horizontal catchwords along lower edge near gutter, verso.
Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script with numerous abbreviations.
Red initial, 5-line, with purple penwork flourishing that extends down inner margin, marks beginning of text, f. 3r. Plain red initial, 3-line, f. 3v. Spaces with guide letters are unfilled for remainder of codex. Initial letter for each sentence stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r only.
Binding: England, s. xix. Bound by Charles Lewis (London, 1807-36) in brown diced calf with a gold-tooled title: "Ciceronis Rhetorica MS in Membr:". Edges gilt.
Written in Italy in the middle of the 15th century. Inscription, s. xv^, on f. 2r: '*hic codex est Monasterij Sancti lohannis baptiste in Rebdorff ordinis Canonicorum regularium diui Augustini episcopi. eystetensis dyocesis. Et continet In se Rethoricam tullij"; it presumably remained at Rebdorff until the 19th century. Probably identifiable with the following entry in the Rebdorff catalogue: P. Ruf, ed., Mittelallerliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutsch-
22 ^ MS_8
lands und der Schweiz, Bd. Ill, 1 (Munich, 1932) p. 306 (*Tullius, philoso- phus et oratorum princeps, Rhetorica, K.28"). Belonged to the Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841; inscription on f. i recto); his sale (Evans, 3 March 1827; information not verified). Small round label with "58*' handwritten, on spine; "254" in pencil on front pastedown. Bookplate of Jacques Rosen- thal inside front cover. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: similes
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 65, no. 8.
Marston MS 9 Florence, ca. 1460-65
Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, It. tr. Pier Candido Decembrio, etc.
1. ff. lr-208v Incomincia la hystoria d'Alexandro Magnofigluolo di Philippo
Re di Macedonia scripta da Quinto Curtio Ruffo hystorico Alexandro in
questo mezo mandato Leandro con molta pecunia per condurre gente darme del peloponese . . . et alia memoria del quale ogni debito honore e Referito. Finisce el duodecimo et ultimo libro della hystoria d'Alexandro magno Jigliuolo di Philippo Re di macedonia . . . Nellano .Mccccxxxviij. a di .xxj. d'aprile in Milano. Laus Deo Finis.
Curtius Rufus, Historia Alexandri Magni, translated into Italian and supplemented with material from Plutarch by Pier Candido Decembrio; text printed "Apud Sanctum Jacobum de Ripoli" in Florence, 1478 (GKW, V. 7, no. 7877). Missing portions of the text are clearly indicated in the manuscript by explanatory rubrics, e.g., on ff. 88v, 89r, 90v, 197r-v, 198r.
2. ff. 208v-216v Al serenissimo prencipe et excellentissimo signore Philippo Maria duca di Milano di Pauia et Angera conte et di genoua Signore. Inco- mincia la comparatione di Caio liulio [sic] Cesare imperadore maximo et
d' Alexandro magno Re di macedonia da P. Candido ordinata lo credo
serenissimo prencipe che fia molte singulari et gioconde quisdoni le quali non solamente da licterad et docti huomini . . . uno specchio della loro gloria parue che fussino innamorad. Finisce la comparatione di Caio lulio Cesare . . . felicemente.
Pier Candido Decembrio, Comparazione di Cesare e dAlessandro Magno, published with art. 1 in GKW, v. 7, no. 7877.
MS 9 23
Parchment, ff. ii (modern paper) + 216 + ii (contemporary parchment bifolium; ii = back pastedown), 292 x 215 (176 x 114) mm. 30 long lines. Double vertical bounding lines (Derolez 13.31); ruled in pale brown ink. Three single prickings in margins: 5 mm. below lowest horizontal ruling in outer margin; in inner margin 23 mm. above top line and 61 mm. below lowest horizontal ruling.
I-IX^^ X^ XI-XXIl^ XXII^<* (-9, 10). Vertical catchwords between inner bounding lines in lower margin (Derolez 12.5). Remains of two sets of quire and leaf signatures (e.g., t 4, t 5, +, etc.) in lower right corner, recto, with one set correcting the misalphabetization of the other.
Written by a single scribe in a slightly rounded humanistic bookhand with many cursive elements, below top line.
One illuminated initial, 6-line, gold against blue, green and pink ground with white vine-stem ornament, extending into inner margin to form a partial border; terminating at top and bottom in pen inkspray with buds in green and pink and gold balls with hair-line extensions. Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, in blue, mark text divisions; headings in pale red.
Binding: Italy, s. xv-xvi. Sewn on four tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and pegged. Gilt edges.
Covered in brown goatskin with corner tongues, and blind-tooled with a ropework star inside painted (red) and blind-tooled circles inside a floral border, all with metallic annular dots. There are traces of four leaf-shaped fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for fabric straps attached with star-headed nails. Rebacked twice.
Written in Florence ca. 1460-65 by an anonymous scribe who copied a number of vernacular texts including Beinecke MS 151 (vol. I, pp. 202-03) and Marston MS 247; he has been named by A. C. de la Mare the "Scribe of Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana, San Marco 384" (see New Research, Appendix I, p. 548, no. 90, for other manuscripts by this scribe). Inscrip- tion in upper left corner on front pastedown: "1608 Di Trani nori [?] comparo lire quattro"; pasted over this was a small rectangular piece of paper, now removed, with "242h" handwritten, the number in black ink and the letter in red ink. The bookplate, s. xviii, of Graf von Chotek (partially effaced) on front pastedown (F. Warnecke, Die deutschen Biicher- zeichen . . . [Berlin, 1890] p. 47, no. 327). From an unidentified French collection, s. xviii (full-page inscription on f i recto); although a later hand has added a note at the bottom of the leaf that the manuscript belonged to Comte Firmian (Carlo Giuseppe di Firmian, 1716-82), we have been unable to locate the book in the multi-volume catalogue of his collection. Belonged to Acton Griscom (De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1168, no. 32). Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
24 MS 9
secundo folio: questa passaua
Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1168, no. 32; Faye and Bond, p. 65, no. 9. The Medieval Book, p. 107, no. 103.
Marston MS 10 Florence, ca. 1415-20
Demosthenes, et al., Lat. tr. Leonardo Bruni PI. 14
1. ff. lr-7r Demosthenis oratio traducta a Leonardo Arretino. Nequaquam eadem mihi uideor intelligere o uiri athenienses cum res ipsas . . . uos autem sequamini quod et rei p. et uobis omnibus profuturum sit. ff. 7v-8v ruled, but blank
Demosthenes, Olynthica tertia, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni; Baron, p. 178.
2. ff. 9r-llr Aeschinis epistola. Leonardus transtulit. Aeschines atromiti senatui populoque atheniensi salutem. Ego me ad remp. [sic] contuli trigesimo tertio etatis anno, non me hercle ex scena ut aiebat demoste- nes ... cui necessarium est magisquam malanopo contra nos roganti annuere. Explicit.
Aeschines, Epistola senatui populoque Atheniensi, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni; Baron, p. 178.
3. ff. 1 lr-14v Epistola philippi regis. Leonardi Ar. Rex macedonum philip- pus ateniensium senatui plebique salutem. Quoniam persepe iam le- gatos misi qui uobiscum agerent. ut pacta conuenctionesque seruare- mus . . . et diis testibus inuocatis pro rebus meis pugnabo. Explicit.
(Anaximenes of Lampsacus), Epistola Philippi ad Athenienses, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni; Baron, p. 171.
4. ff. 15r-53r Eschinis oratio contra ctesiphontem traducta per leonardum arretinum, Quanti conatus parentur uiri athenienses ad hoc indicium oppugnandum. quantisque precibus nitantur . . . Vos autem ex dictis et omissis iuste pro re publica decernatis.
Aeschines, Oratio contra Ctesiphontem, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni; Baron, p. 163.
5. ff. 53r-96r Leonardi Arretini. Demosthenis oratio. pro Ctesiphonte. Primum quidem viri athenienses deos atque deas omnes precor . . . metus et salutem indubiam prestate [added by another hand:] et finis. Deo gracias Amen. ff. 96r-97v blank
MS 10 25
Demosthenes, Oratio pro Ctesiphonte (De corona); Baron, p. 162.
Parchment (speckled on hair side), fF. ii (paper) + 97 (remains of contemporary foliation, Roman numerals) + ii (paper), 234 x 158 (165 x 83) mm. Written in 22 long lines; double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines, full length and full width (Derolez 13.33). Ruled in hard point on hair side. Prickings along outer edge (Derolez 18.1).
I^, II-IX^**, X^ [structure uncertain]. Catchwords in lower right corner near gutter, verso (Derolez 12.4).
Written in an expert humanistic bookhand characterized by prominent approach and finishing strokes. The headings in red are by a different scribe.
One very fine illuminated initial, 12-line, in gold on vibrant blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. The stems of the initial are divided into compartments and filled with penwork decoration in red, blue and green on parchment ground. Four small initials, 6- to 5-line, gold on vibrant blue ground with white vine-stem ornament. Headings in red.
Binding: France or Italy, s. xix. Brown calf blind- and gold-tooled, with shells and caducei in the blind-tooled borders. Edges red.
Written in Florence ca. 1415-20 according to A. C. de la Mare; possibly by the same scribe who wrote Vatican Lat. 1613; London, British Library, Harley MS 2771; Florence, Biblioteca Laurenziana 54, 29; Oxford, Bod- leian Library, MS E. D. Clarke 25 (we thank A. C. de la Mare for this information); early modern provenance unknown. Belonged to Sir Thom- as Phillipps (stamp and note on first flyleaf recto and verso, with nos. 922 and 2681). According to Phillipps Studies, v. 3, p. 147, no. 922 was ac- quired from Abate Luigi Celotti (ca. 1768-ca.l846; no. Ill in his second sale catalogue: Sotheby's, 14 March 1825, listed as "Demosthenis et Aeschines Orationes, in Lat. traductae a Leonardo Aretino") whereas no. 2681 was bought from Thorpe; there is, however, no internal evidence to suggest that the volume was previously composed of two separate manu- scripts. Belonged to Charles Butler of Warren Wood, Hatfield (bookplate inside front cover); his sale at Sotheby's, 5 April 1911, no. 361. Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1948 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [com] memo rare Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 65, no. 10.
26 MS 11
Marston MS 11 Germany, s. XIIP"*
Eusebius Pamphili, Historia ecclesiastica, Lat. tr. Rufinus
1. ff. lr-2r //Dicunt esse medicorum ubi imminere urbibus uel regio- nibus generales uiderint morbos prouidere aliquod medicamenti uel poculi ... ita et christiani fide atque operibus id agant ut paterne supersdtionis errore [added in another hand:] relicto ad uere fidei lumen conuertantur.
Prologue of Rufinus with list of capitula for ch. 1 of Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica; large space unfilled at top off. Ir, presumably for a decora- tive heading and initial. The scribe copied this portion of the text twice (see art. 3 below), though the text deviates from art. 3 after chapter viii (De nece infantium apud), and continues without interruption: "con- scribuntur etiam si homine rebus tamen et religione christianos fuisse . . ."; recognizing the error, the scribe recopied the text afresh on f. 3r.
2. f 2v Genealogy of the Virgin Mary in chart format, with explanation be- low: "Not£indum quod duo ioseph in hac genealogia positi sunt Primus frater Cleophe cui idem desponsauit . . . autem genuit sanctum servatium."
3. ff. 3r-139v [Rubric damaged:] Eusebius cesariensis episcopus et hystorio- graphus librum istum ex hebr**cam transtulit linguam, Rufinus uero in latinam. Prologus eiusdem ** Cromatium episcopum. Peritorum dicunt esse medicorum ubi imminere urbibus uel regionibus . . . [table of contents for Bk. 1; f 3v:] Incipiunt capitula. I. Prefado de deitate christi. ij. Quod deus et creator omnium . . . de Syrorum lingua translata sunt. Expliciunt capitula in nomine domini. [text:] Incipit liber primus. Successiones sanc- torum apostolorum et tempora que a saluatore nostro ad nos usque decursa sunt . . . cum piissimis principibus precepturus premia merito- rum. Explicit liber undecimus.
Eusebius, Historia ecclesiastica, Lat. tr. Rufinus, preceded by the pro- logue of Rufinus. T. Mommsen, ed. (Leipzig, 1903-09) Bd. 2, parts 1, 2, 3 in Die griechischen christlichen Schrifisteller der ersten dreijahrhunderte; Marston MS 1 1 not listed.
Each book is preceded by a chapter list signalled by Roman numerals. There are no titles for the chapters in the text, but only Roman numer- als that do not always correspond to those in the chapter list. Book I = 16 chs., II = 28 chs., Ill = 39 chs., IV = 29 chs., V = 27 chs., VI = 37 chs. (numbering in text skips iv and therefore runs i-xxxviii), VTI = 28 chs. labelled in chapter list and 29 in text, VIII =19 chs. labelled in chapter list and 18 in text, IX = 10 chs., X = 40 chs. in chapter list and 36 in text, XI = 34 chs. in chapter list and 31 in text.
MS 11 27
Parchment (thick; holes and end pieces), ff. i (paper) + 139 + i (paper), 302 X 215 (230 x 158) mm. 35-36 long lines. Single vertical and double horizontal bounding lines, full length and usually full width. Ruled in ink; remains of prickings in lower and outer margins, often with double prickings for the first of the lower horizontal bounding lines.
I-III«, rV^, V-XII«, XIIli", XIV-XVII8, XVIII^ (-2, 5, 6, all blank). Remains of catchwords, most enclosed by rectangles, center of lower edge, verso.
Written in gothic bookhand below top line by several scribes whose hands are uneven; text is written for the most part between the rulings.
Decorative initials, 8- to 6-line, in red, some with modest penwork designs in red and black, or with foliage type appendages, in red, mark the beginning of each book; plain red 3-line initials, with knobs, for beginnings of chapters. Rubrics, chapter numbers, and inidal strokes, in red. Guide letters and instructions for rubricator.
Outer edge of f. Iv damaged and repaired resulting in some loss of text.
Binding: Germany, s. xix. Bound in a grey-beige paper case with the title, in ink, on a label on the spine: "Eusebii Caesariensis Hystoria Ecclesi- astica."
Written in Germany in the middle of the 13th century, presumably at the Premonstratensian abbey of St. Peter at Weissenau (founded 1145 and suppressed 1803); contemporary inscription in upper margin of f Ir: "Liber sancti petri in augia minori" and later inscription in lower margin of f Iv (partially effaced): "Bibliotheca Weissenav***." Bookplate (with initials BAZW) of Abbot Benedict Rheindl of Weissenau on front paste- down (see F. Warnecke, Die deutschen Bucherzeicken . . . [Berlin, 1890] no. 2409). Listed by P. Lehmann, Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Deutschlands und der Schweiz (Munich, 1918) Bd. 1, p. 409, as Miinchen, Antiquariat Jacques Rosenthal, no. 21933; Rosenthal's white oval paper tag with scalloped edges (superimposed on a rectangular label) with handwritten ink notations "21933/ III.M" and note in pencil inside front cover: "(Fol. 21933.) Coll [?] T[sch?] k 139 Bit." Unidentified shelf-marks include "Eusebius" in blue crayon on front pastedown and round circular paper tag on spine with number "456." From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 19049; tag on spine and number written on Rheindl book- plate with "a 32.522" added beneath). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [relijgio est ut
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 65, no. 11.
28 MS 15
Marston MS 15 Florence, ca. 1456-65
Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, It. tr.
ff. lr-82v Libro primo delta gherra [sic] italiana contro agothi composta per messere lionardo d'areco al R. P. D. Giuliano cardinale di sancto agnolo. [letter:] Ben che a me molto piu giocondo sarebbe stato riferre la felicita che i danni d'italia niente . . . [final paragraph, f. 2v:] Nel tempo di ^eneno imperadore . . . italia. [rubric wanting, text, f. 3r:] Dopo la morte di ualen- tiniano minore el quale come per certo si sa fu da suoi ucciso in roma I'omperio occidentale comincio a mancare di ferme^a . . . mancando loro gia ogni cosa necessaria et non auendo speran^a alcuna// catchwords: dauito a totila.
Leonardo Bruni, De bello italico adversus gothos, in the Italian version by Ludovico Petroni made in 1456, but the text here differs significantly from that printed in Florence in 1526; ends imperfectly in the first part of Book IV. Preceded by the letter of Leonardo Bruni to Giuliano Cardinal Cesa- rini (1398-1444).
Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 82 + i (paper), 257 x 160 (143 x 96) mm. Written in 26 long lines. Double vertical bounding lines that do not always extend the full length of the page (Derolez 13.31); ruled in pale brown ink. Two single prickings at the top and bottom of inner margin, another single pricking in outer margin, 5 mm. below final horizontal ruling.
I^, II-VIII^^. Horizontal catchwords with dots and flourishes on either side in lower margin written across inner vertical bounding line, verso (Derolez 12.3).
Written by a single scribe in fere-gothic script, above top line.
Partial border in inner margin of white vine-stem ornament, f. Ir, on blue, green and pink ground with white and blue dots. In lower border terminals extending in ink hair spray with green, pink and blue flowers and gold balls frame central medallion with a crude outline drawing of a head in profile (later addition?). Two decorated initials, 4- to 3-line, gold on blue, pink and green grounds with white vine-stem ornament. On f Ir initial joined to partial border. Heading on f Ir in red.
Binding: Italy, s. xviii-xix. "Alia rustica" with grey-green paper added over the spine and part of the boards. Edges yellow.
Written in Florence ca. 1456-65; early modern provenance unknown. Signature of "S. [or L.?] Haas 1894 [?]" on front pastedown. Modern notations, in pencil, on front pastedown: "50" in a circle and "281." White oval label with scalloped edge and "224" in ink on upper cover;
MS 15 29
plain white round paper label ("S. Ill N/ Leon. Aretino/ XV. Jh/ 4o 73245b") on spine. Acquired from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: furono
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 15.
Marston MS 16 Germany, 1459
Ovid, Metamorphoses
1. f. Ir [Title:] Ouidius methamorphoseos. ff. lv-2r blank; f. 2v Short table of proper names in alphabetical order, with book numbers and folio references to individual books, both of which refer to the same sequence written in upper right corner of each text leaf.
2. ff. 3r-201v In noua fert animus mutatas dicere formas/ Corpora dij ceptis. Nam uos mutastis et illas/ . . . Ore legar populi perque omnia secula fama/ Siquid habent veri vatum presagia viuam. [colophon:] Explicit Anno 1459. ff. 202r-207v blank
W. S. Anderson, ed., Teubner (1977); a new critical edition by R. J. Tarrant is in progress (for additional information on the manuscript tradition, see Texts and Transmission, pp. 276-82). The text of Marston MS 16 contains interlinear and marginal notes throughout. Lactantian tituli and nuTrationes in margins; see D. A. Slater, ed., Towards a Text of the Metamorphosis of Ovid [Oxford, 1927]).
Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head and mountain), ff. ii (paper, ff. 1-2) + 204 (modern foliation, 3-207, omits no. 168), 344 x 235 (212 x 108) mm. Ca. 30-37 lines of verse. Leaves folded lengthwise for vertical bounding lines.
I^, II-XVIII^^. Gatherings of twelve signed with Arabic numerals along lower edge near gutter, verso.
Written in a small neat gothic text hand with hybrida features.
Plain red 5-line initial, in outline only, f. 3r; two smaller initials of similar style, ff 3v-4r. First letter of each verse stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r. Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled elsewhere in codex.
Binding: Germany, s. xv. Adhered vellum stays on the inside of the quires. Original wound sewing on three wide, tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn to
30 MS 16
tawed cores laced into grooves on the outside of the boards. Front paste- down: reused paper manuscript with text side pasted face down.
Quarter bound in blue, tawed skin with a strip, now wanting, nailed along the edge. Two leaf-shaped catches with three five-petalled flowers on them on the lower board and the upper one cut in for kermes pink straps attached with metal plates; damage from a chain fastening at the head of this board, and the board broken; outer edge wanting. Title, in same [?] hand as on f. Ir, on upper and lower boards: "Ouidius methamorpho- seos."
Written in Germany in 1459 (see colophon in art. 2). Acquired by Brother Henricus Karrer [?] in 1469 for the Franciscan convent of Villingen in Strasbourg, inscription on front pastedown: **Hoc opus procurauit frater henricus Karr [followed by abbreviation stroke] minister [or magister?] prouinciae argentinensis pro conuentu Viligensi fratrum minorum ac studiosis filijs eiusdem Conuentus. 1469." Monogram in the same [?] hand directly above the inscription, partially effaced: **b. w. h. k,'* Belonged to Pietro Girometti (MS. 1), whose manuscripts were bought by Prince Baldassarre Boncompagni in 1856 (E. Narducci, Catalogo di manoscritti ora posseduti da D. B. Boncompagni [Rome, 1892]; nos. 221 (296) in the Bon- compagni collection (both numbers on spine, the first on a small paper label, the second in bright red ink). Unidentified inscriptions include note on f. Ir, crossed out and illegible; below in ink: "C. 1-207./ 1-202, 203, 203-206/ C. (204)-(207)"; round white paper label with saw-toothed edge on spine: "S II F/ Ouidius Ms. 1459/ fol. 21930"; on front pastedown, in pencil: "302" and "200." Remains of large square paper label wrapped around spine. Unidentified Latin note, s. xix-xx, pasted inside front cover. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (book- plate).
secundo folio'. Proxima
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 16.
F. Munari, Catalogue of the Manusaipts of Ovid's Metamorphoses y Univer- sity of London, Institute of Classical Studies, Bulletin Supplement no. 4 (London, 1957) p. 40, no. 183 (cited without shelf number).
Marston MS 17 Roccacontrada, 1434
Petrarch, Itinerarium; Boccaccio, PI. 36
De montibus, silvis, fontibus, etc.
1. IT. lr-7r [Heading written three times by later hands; epistle:] Raro admodum spei nostre exitus respondent. Sepe premeditata desdtuunt:
MS 17 31
insperata contingunt . . . suspiramus abeuntem jam reducem exopta- mus. [text, f. Iv:] Poscis Ergo vir optime quoniam me [?] non [one word omitted and added in margin, now lost] comites . . . superest pagendum christi ope feliciter his spectaculis et hoc duce doctior nobis ac sanctior remeabis. Explicit itinerarium francisci petrarce. f. 7v blank
Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de laniuz usque ad Jerusalem et Terram sanctam; text is defective: lower portion of f. 1 missing. G. L. Lumbroso, ed., Ultinerarium del Petrarca in Atti della R. Accad. dei Lincei, Rendiconti, s. IV, 4 (1888) pp. 390-403; reissued, La guida compilata dal Petrarca ad uso d'un pellegrino in Memorie italiane del buon tempo antico (Turin, 1889) pp. 16-49. A new edition, translation, and commentary is being pre- pared by J. Shey. Names of geographical locations written in margin by scribe of text.
2. ff. 8r-70r Uiri clarissimi ac poete illvstris lohannis Boccatij de Certaldo ciuis Jlorentinj de montibus et Jluminibus fontibus siluis lacubus et maribus liber incipit. Prohemium. [SJurrexeram equidem fessus a labore quodam egregio et aliquali otio . . . altitudines metitur et conspicit. [text:] Aalac mons est cuius nomen alij diuidentem montem interpetrantur \sic^ alij uero lenem id est lepidum ... Si quid uero congruum suis conformet \sic^ scriptis comperiatur diuine bonitati et doctrine ascribatur sue. [colophon:] Sit nomen domini benedictum ex hoc/ Nunc et usque In seculum Amen/ Non nobis domine non nobis, sed nomine/ tuo da gloriam. [cf. Colophons, v. 6, no. 23555]/ hie est finis. Lam altissimo. amen/ In rocha contrata sub anno domini Millesimo/ ccaf xxxiiif die xxviif lulij. f. 70v blank
Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus . . . ; printed in Venice (Wendelin von Speyer), 13 January 1473 (GKW 4482), and thereafter. The text has the following running headings, in red: Montes, Silu£, Pontes, Locus, Flumina, Stagna, Maria.
Paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia (watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854), ff. ii (paper) + 70 + ii (paper), 289 x 220 (225 x 150) mm. 2 columns, 38-41 lines. Paper leaves: frame-ruled in lead. Parchment leaves: single vertical bounding lines in lead or ink, text rulings in pale brown ink. Remains of prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins.
1^2 (_l), Iii2^ iii^o, IV-V^^, W"^ (-14). Horizontal catchwords centered beneath written space, verso (Derolez 12.1).
Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.
Plain red initial, 5-line, f. Ir; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r.
32 MS 17
Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. Ir.
First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text.
Binding: France [?], s. xviii. Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434."
Written in 1434 at Roccacontrada (since 1816 called Arcevia, in the prov- ince of Ancona; see colophon, art. 2). M. Morici ("Le opere geografiche del Petrarca e del Boccaccio copiate da un amanuense di Roccacontrada nel 1434," La Bibliofilia 6 [1905] pp. 321-26, with photograph of colo- phon) identified the scribe as don Marco di Antonio di Sante Massi of Roccacontrada who also copied another Boccaccio manuscript (see colo- phon cited in Archivio stonco messinese, 2, fasc. 3-4, 150). Belonged to the Jesuit College of Agen; inscription on f. Ir: "Collegii Agen Societ. lesu Catal. Ins." For additional information on manuscripts from Agen see N. Mann, "Petrarch Manuscripts in the British Isles," Italia medioevale e uma- nistica 18 (1975) p. 273, note 1. From the collection of Sir Thomas Phillipps (stamp with no. 1025 [1024 above cancelled] on f ii recto; inscription with 1025 on f. Ir; tag on spine), who acquired it from Abate Luigi Celotti (ca. l768-ca. 1846; see Phillipps Studies, v. 3, pp. 50-51). Rosenthal, Munich (round paper label, damaged, with "28278" on spine); unidentified label partly visible beneath Rosenthal label. Note on final rear flyleaf, recto, in pencil: "Imp. Temp. N^ 21 del 3-3-933"; "305" and "100" within a circle, both in pencil, on f. i verso. On f. ii recto traces of an unidentified book- dealer's description, in English, transcribed by Morici {op. cit.y p. 324). Pur- chased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: ciuitatem
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 17. Ullman, p. 456, no. 46. Dutschke, pp. 174-76, no. 69.
Marston MS 18 Milan, ca. 1467
Francesco Filelfo, Oratio
ff. lr-82r Francisci Philelfi Oratio Parentalis De Divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanensium Ducis Felicitate. [S]i fieri posse censerem: ut lamentatio-
MS 18 33
nibus ac lachrymis saeuo et peracerbo naturae uulneri mederemur: quod ex incommodo fortasse magis quam ex immaturo Francisci Sphortiae . . . ut non mortuum minus quam uiuum ab uno Francisco Philelfo et amatum ilium, et obseruatum, et celebratum, praesentes omnes uenturique cogno- scant. [colophon:] Que quidem oratio habita est ab eodem Francisco Philelfo equite aurato laureatoque poeta in ecclesia cathedrali Mediolani die lunae vii idus martias anno a natali christiano Millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo septimo. f. 82v ruled, but blank
Francesco Filelfo, Oratio parentalis de divi Francisci Sphortiae Mediolanen- sium ducis felicitate; printed in Milan and Venice in 1481 and thereafter (Hain nos. 12918-25). Brief notes by scribe, in red, in column ruled in outer margin. For other manuscripts containing this work see A. Calde- rini, "I codici milanesi delle opere di Francesco Filelfo," Archivio Storico Lombardo ser. 5, 42 (1915) nos. 33, 34, 35, and p. 394, no. 45.
Paper (watermarks, much worn, buried in gutter: similar in general design to Piccard, Ochsenkopf VII.955), ff. i + 82 (modern foliation begins on front flyleaf) + i (paper), 234 x 162 (131 x 72) mm. 16 long lines. Double vertical bounding lines and two additional vertical rulings to delineate column in margin for notes. Rulings impressed on a ruling board from the center of the gathering out; vertical rulings do not always extend to the lower edge of leaves; single pricking along lower edge.
I-X^ (+ 1 leaf at end). Vertical catchwords, surrounded by dots, between vertical bounding lines (Derolez 12.5).
Written by a single scribe in a neat sloping humanistic bookhand, above top line.
Space left for initial on f. Ir is unfilled; heading in majuscules, colo- phon, and marginalia, in pale red.
Binding: Italy, s. xix'". Quarter bound in brown mottled calf; mottled yellow and green paper sides; pale brown edges. Gold-tooled spine includ- ing title, which is mostly wanting. Spine worm-eaten.
Written in Milan ca. 1467 when the oration was delivered; according to A. C. de la Mare the manuscript was very probably copied by one of Filelfo's scribes, Fabricius Elphiseus, who was secretary to Galeazzo Maria Sforza, Duke of Milan 1466-76; Elphiseus signed Paris, B. N. lat 8125 and El Escorial g. 11. 9, both containing works of Filelfo and both written in a more formal style of writing than Marston MS 18. Unidentified notes and shelf-marks, s. xviii-xix, include: remains of square white label at head of spine with only "21" in ink now visible; round white paper label at tail of spine: "7797/ III M" in ink; on front pastedown, all in pencil: "Num. 36"
34 MS 18
(partially erased), **82" written twice, "50" enclosed by a circle, "307" and "81 Bl" [remainder unclear]; on front flyleaf, partially erased "No 22." Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949.
secundo folio', nostros cogitatus Bibliography. Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 18.
Marston MS 22 Oxford [?], s. XIII*""*
Book of Hours, Sarum use PI. 51
1. f. Ir [Added:] Christe qui lux es et dies noctis tenebras detegis. lucisque lumen crederis. lumen beatum predicans . . . Memento nostri domine in graui isto corpore qui es defensor anime adesto nobis do mine.
RH 2934.
2. f. Iv [Added:] Cultor dei memento te fontis et lauacri rorem subbisse scantum [?] te crismate innouatum . . . Groria [sic\ et honor deo. summo vero regi spiritu paraclito et nunc et in perpetuum Amen.
RH 4053.
3. ff. 2r-91r Hours of the Holy Spirit beginning defectively and Hours of the Virgin, Sarum use (worked in after the office of the Holy Spirit, except that matins and lauds of each appear to be copied straight on); after lauds of the office of the Virgin, suffrages of the Holy Spirit, John the Baptist (beginning defectively), Peter and Paul, John the Evangelist, Andrew, Many Apostles, Stephen, Laurence, Edmund king and martyr, Thomas of Canterbury (cancelled), Many Martyrs, Nicolas, Edmund confessor, Benedict, an unidentified confessor (Benedict again? breaks defectively), and unidentified virgin (? begins defectively), Susanna, Many Martyrs, relics, All Saints, for peace, the Virgin; loss of leaves throughout, as follows: ff. 2r-5v HS matins, defect, beg. (and possibly a leaf missing after f . 3 as well?); ff. 6r-17v BVM matins, defect, beg.; ff. 17v-43v BVM lauds, defect, between ff. 31v-32r, 38v-39r; ff. 43v-46r HS prime; ff. 46r-54r BVM prime; ff 54r-57r HS terce; ff. 57r-61v BVM terce, defect, end; ff. 62r-63v HS sext, defect, beg.; ff. 63v-67v BVM sext, defect, end; f 68r-v HS nones, defect, beg., end; ff. 69r-72v BVM nones, defect, beg., end; f 73r-v HS vespers, defect, beg., end; ff. 74r-81v BVM vespers, defect, beg.; ff. 81v-84r HS compline; ff. 84r- 91r BVM compline.
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4. ff. 91v-92v [Added:] Omnipotens sempiterne deus qui es sine fine et principio qui creasti omnia ex nichilo ad cuius imperium . . . vt huic famule tue [an initial?] grauide pregnanU interueniat pietatis tue auxilium vt prolem dbi gratam sine mortis periculo valead [sic] produ- cere
Prayer for safe delivery in childbirth.
5. ff. 93r-107v Penitential Psalms, beginning defectively, and litany including Alphege (14), Thomas (15; not cancelled), Alban (16), Ed- mund (17), and Oswald (18) among 18 martyrs; Paulinus (8), Cuthbert (9), Dunstan (10), Swithun (11), Benedict (14), and Botulph (17) among 17 confessors; Mary Magdalen (1), Radegundis (2), Osyth (3), Scholas- tica (11), Juliana (12), and Ethelreda (14) among 14 virgins; ends defectively.
6. ff. 108r-112r Gradual Psalms [?], beginning defectively and ending imperfectly (Pss. 119-126 no longer present; cues only, as normal, for Pss. 127-130; Pss. 131, 132, as normal, written out in full; Ps. 133 not copied), followed straight on by Ps. 150, Kyrie, Pater noster, Requiem and several prayers for the dead: Inclina domine aurem tuam ad preces nostras quibus misericordiam tuam suplices [sic] deprecamur . . . [HE, p. 101]; Deus qui nos patrem et matrem honorare precepisti . . . [HE, p. Ill]; Miserere quesumus domine animabus omnium benefactorum . . . [HE, p. 101]; Fidelium deus omnium conditor et redemptor . . . [HE, p. 101].
7. ff. 112r-113r Dampne deu sire pere ihesu crist isi uerraiement cume nus creumus et ueirs est. que cu seint sacrefise est icel uerrai cors . . . de moi cheitive pecheresse
K. V. Sinclair, French Devotional Texts of the Middle Ages: a bibliographic manuscript guide (Westport, Conn., 1979) 2687 (p. 40).
8. ff. 113r-114r Beu sire deu si uerraiement cume uus preistes iceste chariti sacre de la uirgine marie et en cu char nasquistes
Sinclair, op. cit, 2555 (p. 24; see also his 952, 1903, 1957, 2049-50, 2528).
9. ff. 114r-115r Beu [a added in margin] sire ihesu crist que le uestre beneit seintime cors. et uestre precius saunc dunastes en la seinte uerrziie croiz pur tut le mund sauuer. . . .
Sinclair, op.cit, 2565 (p. 25).
10. f. 115r-v Pericope from John (1.1-10), ending defectively: "... uenientem in hunc mundum. In mundo//"
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Parchment (thick, fuzzy on hair side), fF. i (modern parchment) +115 (modern pagination, upper right; modern foliation, lower right), 148 x 111 (112 X 60) mm. Ca. 13 long lines. Double vertical and single or double horizontal bounding lines; ruled in hard point or crayon (lead for ff. 93r- 115v). Row of prickings along outer vertical bounding line, f. 91 only.
Precise collation impossible due to tight binding, repairs, and number of missing leaves.
Written in two styles of script: large gothic bookhands, often with only 3-4 words per line, by three scribes for ff. Ir, 2r-91r, 93r-115v, respec- tively; Anglicana scripts for ff. Iv, 91v-92v (added prayers).
The codex, now in fragmentary condition with no miniatures extant, contains the following sequence of historiated initials, some badly rubbed (L = large historiated initial; 5 = small historiated initial): f. 5r Head of Janus (S); f. 7r King David, head in profile (S); f. I7v Annunciation (L); f. 18r Crouching naked man (S); f. 21r Head of woman in profile (S); f. 26r Rooster (S); f. 28r Blessed Virgin Mary, portrait (S); f. 32r Peter with keys, half-length (S); f. 37r Nicolas, head of (S); f. 43v Scourging at the pillar (L); f. 45v God the Father (S); f. 46r Visitation (L); f. 46v Holy Ghost descending (S); f. 54v Carrying of the cross (L); f. 57r Annunciation to the shepherds (L); f. 57r Holy Ghost descending (S); f. 63v Nativity (L); f. 81v Three Marys at the tomb (L); f. 84r Flight into Egypt (L); f. 94r Woman praying (S); f. lOlr Man praying (S); f. 112r Woman praying (S). Large historiated initials, 3-line, pink or blue with white designs on blue square ground framed with gold; both initial and frame edged in black; figures on gold ground, often rubbed and flaked; elongated dragons extend into margins for ascenders, as in initial D. Small historiated initials, 2-line, of similar designs and colors, but on cusped gold grounds. Other text divisions marked by 2-line initials, pink, orange, blue with simple foliage motifs in the same colors and yellow, all with designs in white and on square or cusped gold grounds that often extend far into margins. Initials on ff. 93-115 are somewhat more delicate in appearance and presumably by a different hand than those on ff. 2-91. 1-line initials in red with blue penwork designs alternate with opposing color scheme. Elaborate line-fill- ers, including fish and heads of long-beaked beasts, for litany (art. 5). Headings in red, ff. 2-91 only.
Manuscript has been heavily trimmed with loss of marginal decoration; staining, rubbing throughout affects illumination.
Binding: England, s. xix-xx. Rigid vellum case with note on spine "MS. Circa 1400." Red edges. Bound by Birdsell and Son (Northampton, 1792 and later).
Produced in England, probably in Oxford, in the middle of the 13th
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century, to judge from the style of decoration (for similar manuscripts see N.J. Morgan, Early Gothic Manuscripts 1250-1285 [London, 1988] v. 1: pp. 119-21, no. 73; v. 1: pp. 123-24, no. 75; v. 2: pp. 66-67, no. 104; v. 2: pp. 150-52, no. 158; this manuscript not recorded in J. Backhouse, The Madresfield Hours [Oxford, 1975]). Commissioned by an unidentified woman given the feminine forms in arts. 3, 4 and 7. The manuscript appears to have been made by two workteams, in view of the slight differences in script and decoration exhibited by ff. 1-91 and 93-1 15, and the insertion of art. 4 on ff. 91v-92v. Notes in pencil, on rear flyleaf: "Bought of Ridler, about 1887." Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1935 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
Bibliography. Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 22.
Marston MS 23 ' Central Italy, s. XTV/XV
Collectanea drawn from Vincent of Beauvais
1. ff. lr-3r De abstinentia c. 4./ De Accidia c. 5/ De Acceptione uel con- tentu munerum c. [5]/ De Amministratione rerum domesticarum . . . DE. V. De ypocrisi et simulatione suy. 58/ DE. Z. De zelo et suy correp- tione. Rubrica. 59.
Table of chapters.
2. f. 3v Nullus redarguendum me putet. si mihi copianti Prohemium huiusmodi libri fore describendum persuasi . . . quo pretermisso nullum rite fundatur exordium.
Prologue to art. 3.
3. ff. 3v-59v Incipiunt Autoritates philosophorum et Poetarum secundum Ordinem Alphabeti de diuersis materijs Compilate et aduersis libris extracteper mefratrem Vincencium lectorem in prouincie francie ordinis fratrum predicato- rum. [f. 4r:] Incipit tractatus Secundum Ordinem Alphabeti ut infra patebit et primo de astinentia. Videlicet Actor ait. [A]bstinentia est virtus qua gule uoluntates in nobis restrignimus [sic] . . . Seneca. Si uis omnia tibi subi- cere te ipsum primo subicias rationi. Deo gratias. [colophon:] Explicit Opus Autoritatum Philosophorum et Poetarum secundum Ordinem Al- phabeti de uarijs materijs. Compilatum et a diuersis libris extractum per Venerabilem Virum fratrem Vincentium lectorem in prouincia francie Ordinis fratrum predicatorum deo gratias.
An alphabetically arranged collection of extracts on the virtues and
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vices and on moral subjects drawn from Vincent of Beauvais. The text also appears in Basel, Universitatsbibliothek MS B XI 3, ff. 238-308, and Ratisbonne, Bibl. prov. 176, ff. 90-124; see P. Delahaye, "Un dicti- onnaire d'ethique attribue a Vincent de Beauvais," Melanges de science religieuse 1 (1951) pp. 65-85.
Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 59 + i (paper), 148 x 109 (124 x 71) mm., greatly trimmed. 31 long lines. Single vertical bounding lines. Ruled in pale brown ink.
I-V^^ VI^*' (-10).
Written in a small neat gothic script.
Twenty-one illuminated initials, 12- to 3-line, green, blue, pink, grey or red with white filigree against gold ground edged in black. Initials filled with curling acanthus, red, green, grey and unburnished gold against blue ground with white filigree, and ending in foliage serifs, as above. In the margins gold balls with a single hair-line spike. The style of the initials may be compared to Paris, BN lat. 6815 (cf. Avril and Gousset, v. 2, p. 179, no. 221, pi. CXXVI). Numerous flourished initials with interior harping alternate blue and red with red and pale yellow penwork. Headings in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Several marginal drawings, among them grotesques (ff. 53v, 54r) and human heads, a woman holding a flower (f. 39v), a snake impaled on a spear (f. 58v), in a nearly contem- porary hand. Guide letters for the decorator in red. Space left unfilled for initial on f. 4r.
Binding: Italy, s. xix. Half bound in brown mottled calf with a gold- tooled spine and cream, blue-green, and red paste-paper sides. Red and olive green paste-paper pastedowns in a chevron pattern. Red edges.
Written in Central Italy (perhaps Bologna?) at the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century. Contemporary ownership inscription on scroll on f. 59v indicates the volume belonged to one Paulus: "Si. PA. Ponatur. u. coniugatur lu. condectatur [?]. s .sotiatur. Cuius est liber sic nomina- turj" Colophon rewritten by later hand on front flyleaf; ownership note on front pastedown effaced. Unidentified shelf-marks and notes include: "N. 4*' in ink on upper cover; "282" and "100" in a circle, both in pencil, on front flyleaf; "S. [?] 59" and undeciphered series of numbers [?] on back flyleaf Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 (note on back flyleaf) by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: De doctoribus
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 23.
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Marston MS 24 Italy, s. Xir"
Joannes Cassianus; Ambrosius Autpertus PI. 56
1. fF. lr-36r Incipit liber primus de habitu monachorum lohannis Cassiani. De institutis ac regulis monasteriorum dicturi. unde conpetentius donante deo quam ex ipso habitu . . . prosperis fiierimus elati. utraque uelut caduca. et mox transeuntia contemplantes. Explicit liber de spiritu tristicie. f. 36v blank, with only upper portion of leaf extant
Joannes Cassianus, extracts from De institutis coenobiorum et de octo principalium vitiorum remediis libri XII; M. Petschenig, ed., CSEL, v. 17 (1888) pp. 8-171; the manuscript includes only 1.1-2, 10-11; II.1-3, 5- 6, 15-18; IV. 1-43; V.3 - IX. 13. There are no chapter lists in arts. 1 or 2.
2. ff. 37r-65r Incipit collatio abbatis Moysi Prima. Cum in heremo sithii ubi monachorum probatissimi patres et omnis commemoratur perfectio . . . cum censum habeat pauperis, non abiecit diuitis uoluntatem. Explicit collatio abbatis danielis.
Joannes Cassianus, Conlationes XXIV; M. Petschenig, ed., CSEL, v. 13 (1886) pp. 7-118 (Conlationes I-IV). See also art. 5.
3. f. 65v Miscellaneous notes, in Lat.
4. ff. 66r-68v Oratio Sancti Ambrosii ad Beatam Trinitatem. Pro vitandis septem Prindpalibus viciis. Et Sanctis virtutibus adquirendis. Summa et incomprehensibilis natura. uirtus uitaque beata. lux inaccessibilis uera . . . pro me exorent ipse inspiraueris. qui eternitate perhenni uiuis et regnas cuncta per secula. et in omnibus seculis. Amen. Explicit oratio Sancti Ambrosii de viii" [sic] vitiis Prindpalibus.
Ambrosius Autpertus, Oratio contra septem vitia; R. Weber, ed., CC cont. med. 27B (1979) pp. 935-44; Recension A.
5. ff. 68v-90v In/:ipit Collatio Abbatis Piamonis De. IIIT^ Generibus monacho- rum. Postqu/zm conspectum atque. colloquium trium illorum senum quorum collationes sancto fratre nostro eucherio compellente . . . cura- rum flagris semper//
Joannes Cassianus, extracts from Conlationes XXJV; page references here in parentheses referring to Petschenig, op. cit. (see also art. 2). Books XVIII-XIX (chapter list for XIX, f. 74r; pp. 506-52); XX.8-12 (pp. 561- 70); XXII.1-2 (abridged), 3-6.7 (pp. 616-24); XII.l (abridged), 2-4, 6.1-4, 7.1, 7.3, 7.4-5, 11.1, 12.1, 12.3, 13.2, 15.2 (pp. 334-35, 335-39, 341-43, 345, 346, 351, 353, 354, 356-57, 358), text ending imperfectly on f. 87v (" . . . trium sine ut alii//"); XXIV.9-13.4 (pp. 683-89), text
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ending imperfectly on f. 89v (**... indisrupta iugitate//"); XXIV. 19.4- 24.2 (pp. 696-700), text ending imperfectly.
Parchment (endpieces, holes, speckled on hair side), ff. 91 (modern foliation, lower right corner, skips leaf between ff. 42 and 43), ca. 315 x 185 (260 X 125) mm. Written in 41 to 50 long lines. First two gatherings: ruled in crayon, double vertical bounding lines; prominent prickings (slashes) in upper, lower and outer margins. Remaining quires: ruled in hard point, double vertical and single or double horizontal bounding lines, prominent prickings (punctures) in upper, lower and outer margins.
I-II^ III^^ (-3, 5, 9, 13; no loss of text), IV^^ V-VI^ VII^ (+ 1 bifolium, half-sheet, inserted in center of quire, ff. 55A and 55B), VIII^ IX-X^ XI^ XII (original structure uncertain, -1, a bifolium, + 1 leaf conjugate to first missing leaf). First quire signed with Roman numeral, center of lower margin, verso. Remains of catchwords, right of center in lower margin, verso.
Written by multiple scribes of varying degrees of accomplishment in late Caroline minuscule and early gothic bookhand.
One decorated 5-line initial (rubbed) on f. Ir, constructed of interlac- ing bands in parchment, outlined in brown ink against an irregular red ground. Plain red initials, some of which are drawn vertically rather than upright, and often with small red pearl designs, appear to be executed by many different hands. Instructions to rubricator in upper margin off. Ir. Guide letters for decorator.
Binding: Italy, s. xii. Original sewing on two tawed pigskin slit straps. The sewing supports and endband cores are laced through a tawed skin spine lining (from a palimpsest?) which extends about 50 mm. on either side and is turned in at head and tail. There is a fragment of finely woven cloth caught up by the lower sewing support and kettle stitch. Chevron endbands on tawed skin straps, one of which extends across the lower side under the lower turn-in. The lower side is reinforced with two irregular pieces of vellum. The structure of this binding is discussed in detail by M. Gullick, "From Scribe to Binder: Quire Tackets in Twelfth-Century Manuscripts," The Compleat Binder: Studies in Bookmaking and Conservation in Honour of Roger Powell, ed. G. Petherbridge (The Codicology Press, 1991).
A flush, tawed skin cover with overlapping corners and irregular turn-ins, wide at the fore edge. Stubs of fastenings which are extensions of the supports. Contemporary title in ink on upper cover: "liber intitulatur de habitu monachorum." Decorative panel containing a drawing of an unidentified animal smeared blue and/or green within a border of brown circles, on lower side.
MS 24 11
Written in Italy toward the beginning of the 12th century. Early note on f. 36v mentions the name "andreas avelloni"; another inscription inside back cover: "Reddatur priori sancti andree de t[o or e; remainder illegible due to ink blotch]." Belonged to Federico Patetta (1867-1945), Professor of the History of Law at the University of Turin at the beginning of the 20th century (his note, f. Ir: "MS no. 81"). Sold by Hoepli (Milan, 3 May 1928, no. 50); bought by E. P. Goldschmidt (cat. 15, no. 7); purchased by Acton Griscom (De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1160, no. 1). Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1955 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 835), who sold it in 1956 to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: dei sentenciam
Bibliography: De Ricci, Census, v. 2, p. 1160, no. 1 (while in the Griscom collection); Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 24.
The Medieval Book, no. 55, with plate of binding.
Marston MS 25 Southwestern France, s. XII ^ and XIV-XVI
Calendar; Martyrology; Benedictine Rule
1. ff. i-ii verso [a single leaf folded in half, to be read beginning with the inner, facing leaves, f. i verso, f. ii, f. i, f. ii verso]: Por- tion of an unidentified office, possibly that of the common of a martyr; office, for monastic use, of matins for the common of a confessor bishop.
I. 2. ff l-44v Calendar with obituary, giving names and offices (abbatissa, priorissa, sacristana, helemosinaria, infirmaria, reclusa, decana, conversa, puella, laica, ancilla) of the nuns of the Benedictine abbey of Notre-Dame de Saintes in Charente Inferieure in Southwestern France, and giving the names and bequests of benefactors of the monastery, and the names of contemporary rulers (Eleanor of Aquitaine, William of Poitiers, Richard the Lion-Hearted, Henry II of England, Geoffrey of Anjou, Agnes of Burgundy). The main body of this section dates from the fourteenth century (having been recopied from a twelfth century original, of which only f 2 remains), with continual supplemental notices through the sixteenth century; the latest datable obituary is apparendy that of Anna of Rohan, abbess of Notre-Dame, 1484-1523 (f 7r, a later replacement leaf). Text is missing one leaf at the end. ff 45-46 skipped in foliadon.
II. 3. ff 47r-128v In chnsti nomine incipit epistola cromatij et eliodori episcoporum. ad iheronimum prebiteiiim [sic]. Domino sancto fratri
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iheronimo presbitero cromatius et heliodorus episcopi in domino salutem. Gum religiosissimus augustus theodosius mediolanen- sium urbem fuisset ingressus . . . dei martiribus exhiberi. Rescripcio iheronimj presbiterj. Cromatio et helidoro episcopis iheronimus presbiter. Constat deum nostrum omni die martyrum sanctorum triumphis exhibere . . . [f. 48v:] in celesti gloria fecit esse sublimes. Breuiarium ex nominibus apostolorum tiel loqtuyrum ubi predicauerunt ubi orti uel vbi occisi seu ubi sepulti sunt, de sancto petro. Symon qui interpretatur hobediens. petrus agnoscens filius iohannis frater andree . . . [f. 50v:] cui datur euangelij predicatio in iudea. Explici- unt feste apostolorum. Liber Kalendarius per annj circulum. Mensis ianuarius habet dies xxxi. luna xxx. lani prima dies et septima fine minatur. Kalendas ianuarij. Circumcisio domini nostri ihesu christi. Rome, nathale almachij martyris . . . gladio cesa est. Reci- are. sancti hermetis exorciste. Explicit calendarivs liber.
A version of Usuard's MaHyrolog^\ PL 123.601-992; 124.9-858; the body of the text written in the 12th century with some later marginal additions. The martyrology proper preceded by the Epis- tle of Chromatius and Heliodorus to Jerome, his reply, and a sec- tion devoted to the Twelve Apostles; each month introduced by the verse for the dies mali.
4. ff. 128v-168v Incipit prologus regule sancti benedicti abbatis. Au- sculta ofilia precepta magistri. et inclina aurem cordis tui. et ammo- nicionem pii patris libenter excipe . . . que supra commemorauimus doctrine uirtutumque culmina. deo protegente peruenies. Amen.
Rule of St. Benedict, feminine version with contemporary inter- linear glosses and corrections; the text of this manuscript dis- cussed by H. Feiss, OSB, "Care for the Text: A Twelfth-Century Glossed Rule of Benedict for Notre-Dame de Saintes," American Benedictine Review (forthcoming).
Consists of two distinct parts, both on thick parchment 250 x 198 mm., with front flyleaves taken from a liturgical manuscript with musical nota- tion arranged along a single red line.
Part I: ff. 1-46 (incorrect foliation in first quire: 1-8, stub only foliated 46), format irregular due to numerous additions to text. I'' [?], II-V^, VI^ (-6, f. 46, with text). Quire and leaf signatures (e.g., bj, bij, etc.) lower right corner, recto. Some signatures, left of center in lower margin, verso. Written in a variety of scripts ranging from gothic bookhand to batarde. Initials, dates and headings in red. This part of the manuscript has been extensively patched and repaired.
MS 25 43
Part II: ff. 47-168, written space: 180 x 140 mm., 23-24 long lines. Single or double horizontal (sometimes triple lower) and vertical bounding lines; ruled in hard point on flesh side. Remains of prickings in upper, lower and outer margins. I-X^ XI^ (ff. 127-128), XII-XVI^ Same types of signatures and catchwords as in Part I. Written in elegant late Caroline/ early gothic bookhand. Two decorated initials, ff. 47r and 129r, 6-line, in red, green and blue. Decorative headings in brown ink touched with red and green, or red touched with blue. Small initials, 4- to 1-line in red, some with foliage scrolls in red or contrasting color. Headings in red.
Binding: France, s. xv [?]. An early resewing on three double, twisted, tawed skin supports laced into wide grooves in oak boards and pegged with rectangular or square pegs.
Covered in brown sheepskin with corner tongues, blind-tooled with diagonals in an outer frame. Spine leather wanting. Leather on boards much worn.
Written for the Benedictine abbey of nuns at Notre-Dame de Saintes in Southwestern France. Part II, copied in the first half of the 12th century, exhibits Spanish influence with respect to both its script and decoration; Part I consists of one leaf (f. 2) contemporary with Part II, but the remain- der was primarily written (recopied from earlier manuscript?) in the first half of the 14th century, with extensive additions dating up to and includ- ing the 15th- 16th centuries. Parts I and II were probably bound together in the 15th century. For information and bibliography on the abbey, see Gallia Christiana, rev. ed. (Paris, 1883) v. 2, 1127-31; Cottineau, v. 2, 2927- 28; T. Grasilier, ed., Caiiulaires inedits de la Saintonge, v. 2 = Cartulaire de I'abbaye royale de Notre-Dame de Saintes de I'ordre de Saint-Benoit (Paris, 1871). Belonged to Acton Griscom (De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1160, no. 2). Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [Part I:] Obiit aquilina [Part II:] palmam
Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1160, no. 2 (while in the Griscom collec- tion); Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 25.
Exhib. Cat., pp. 185-86, no. 12.
P. Johnson, Equal in Monastic Profession: Religious Women in Medieval France (Chicago, forthcoming 1991).
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Marston MS 26 France, s. XIII^/^
Petrus Pictaviensis, Compendium historiae PI. 44
in genealogia Christi
ff. lr-5r [GJonsiderans hystorie sacre prolixitatem necnon et difficul- tatem scolarium circa studium sacre lectionis maxime illius que quoque in hystorie fundamento uersatur . . . ordinem perduxi. [explanation for genealogical diagram:] [CJhain agricola dolens sua munera et non fratris fuisse reprobata licet a domino . . . [concludes with list of apostles ar- ranged in tiers of circles, ending with Barnabas:] inter dies ascensionis et pentecosten. f. 5v blank
Glorieux, no. lOOf; Stegmiiller, 6778, where it is attributed, as in other manuscripts, to Petrus Pictaviensis. One leaf (with text?) missing between ff. 1-2.
Parchment, ff 5, 350 x 235 (264 x 200) mm. 71 ruled lines, but not all lines are used on every page. Columns vary in number, but each has vertical bounding lines in red, full length of page. Horizontal text rulings in lead. Prickings in upper, lower, and inner margins.
A single gathering of six leaves, the second wanting.
Written by a single scribe in fine gothic bookhand, above top line.
Genealogical tables accompany text throughout: drawn in red with roundels connected by pairs of parallel lines and aligned between red vertical rulings. Roundels for Adam and Eve, f. Ir, in yellow and blue, respectively; the roundels for their descendants on green ground. The plan of the temple at Jerusalem, f. 4r, in red, yellow, green and blue. The roundels for Christ, f. 5r, in blue, yellow, and red. Headings in red; spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
Lower portion of f. 1 torn, with loss of text.
Binding: Germany, s. xix. Grubby blue paper wrapper. Title, in ink, on upper cover: ''Manuscript des XIIP^ Jahrhunderts. Historia mundi sec. ord. chronol. usque ad mortem Jesu Christi."
Written in France in the second quarter of the 13th century; early proven- ance unknown. Inscriptions, s. xix-xx, on front cover, in ink: "E. Schr. 3782," and in pencil, f Ir: "E. Schr. fol. 3782 Pergamenthandschrift." Uni- dendfied entry from sale cat. (no. 323), in English, pasted inside front cover. Purchased from Ludwig Rosenthal of the Netherlands in 1956 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 989), who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
Bibliography. Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 26.
MS 27 45
Marston MS 27 Spain, s. XVI^/'*
Diego Enriquez del Castillo^ Cronica del Rey don Enrique IV
1. f. Ir [Later title:] Cronica del Rey Don Enrique IIII por diego enri- quez. f. Iv blank; ff. 2r-7v [table:] Tabla: capitulo primero de la vida y filosomia [sic] del Rey. ffo. iij . . . capitulo clxix de como tornado el Rey a madrid le cregio la dolen^ia y murio. fFo. cc.
2. ff. 8r-9r Don juan pacheco marques de villena maestre de Santiago . . . y murio en grand prosper! dad dhedad de cinqa. y cina [?]. anos. fF. 9v-10v blank
Life of Don Juan Pacheco, Marques de Villena.
3. f. llr [Contemporary title page:] Coronica del quarto Rey don en- rique de glorosa [sic] memoria hecha por el ligengiado diego enrriquez de Castillo su coronista Capellan y del su consejo. ff. llv-12v blank [Con- temporary foliation begins:] ff. lr-201r Tanto [corrected from "Quanto"] los pringipes senalados y antiguos varones de las hedades pasadas queda- ron famosos . . . que nj porlo muy prospero se muestre mas alegria nj porlas aduersidades Senaladas de alta tristeza. fin. f. 20 Iv blank
Diego Enriquez del Castillo (1433-1504?), Chronicle of King Enrique IV of Castile (1425-74); J. de Flores, ed., Cronica del Rey D. Enrique el quarto de este nombre, por su capellan y cronista Diego Enriquez del Castillo (Madrid, 1787).
4. f. 202r Decretal texts concerning behavior of clerics, in Sp. ff. 202v- 231v blank
5. f. 232r-v Brief law text, in Lat.
Paper (watermarks: unidentified hand), ff. i (paper) + 245 (ff. 1-12, with an unnumbered leaf between 4 and 5; followed by contemporary foliation 1-201; remainder of leaves, modern foliation 202-232) + i (paper), 293 x 206 (232 X 155) mm. Ca. 28 long lines. Single vertical bounding lines ruled in hard point.
1^^ [?], II2 (ff. 11-12), III-VII1«, IX^ X-XXIII«; collation of remaining leaves impossible due to tight binding. Remains of quire and leaf signa- tures (e.g., b i, bij, etc.) for quires III-XXIII only.
Written by several scribes in late Spanish bookhands with cursive and humanistic features. Some headings in large gothic display script.
Binding: Spain, s. xvi. Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps, now bro- ken, laced into channels in wooden boards. One plain wound endband is sewn on a tawed skin core, the other endband was added later.
46 MS 27
Covered in brown calf blind-tooled with concentric frames, the central panel and alternate frames filled with rope interlace. The layout of the design is the same on both boards but different small tools are used in the central panels. Spine: four fillets outlining the supports and in the center of the panels a small rope tool in the center of the compartments so formed. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the clasp straps later additions. The spine is mended at head and tail; some corners repaired.
Written in Spain in the first quarter of the 16th century; early provenance unknown. Traces of shelf-mark, in ink, on spine "L. 6. 25 [?].'* Belonged to James P. R. Lyell (bookplate); for further information on his manu- scripts see Lyell Cat., pp. xv-xxix. Bought from the Lyell estate by Bernard Quaritch in 1951 and sold in 1952 (Cat. 699, no. 71; Cat. 716, no. 310). Purchased from C. A. Stonehill (inv. nos. 3135 and 11204) in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [table, f. 3:] c° xxviij** como llega [text, f. 2:] por que
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 66, no. 27.
Marston MS 28 Italy, s. XIII/XIV
Epitome of Aristotle, in It.
ff. lr-18r [0]ngne arte eivgne [sic] dottrina e' d'ongne operatione et d'ongne {sic\ eleg^ione si pare a domandar alcun bene . . . E percio che a benerdinare \sic\ le leggi sie mestieri ragione et experienga deo gratis Amen. Explicit Ethica Aristotilis tranlata \sic\ a magistro Tadeo in uolgare. f. 18v blank
Epitome of Aristotle's Ethics translated into Italian by Taddeo d'Alde- rotto (ca. 1235-1295). There is some confusion as to the relationship between the Italian translation by Taddeo d'Alderotto and that used/made by Bono Giamboni in his translation of Latini's Tresor, Book VI (L. Gaiter, ed., // Tesoro di Brunetto Latini volgarizzato da Bono Giamboni [Bologna, 1880]), vol. Ill); see L. Frati, *'L'Etica di Aristotile volgarizzata da Taddeo di Alderotto," in Giomale stonco delta letteratura italiana 68 (1916) pp. 192-95.
Parchment (palimpsest: written over an unidentified canon law text, s. XIII^/^), ff. iii (paper) + 18 + iii (paper), 338 x 223 (252 x 170) mm. 2
MS 28 47
columns, 35 lines. Faintly ruled in lead; prickings at four corners of each text column and in outer margin.
I^, H^°. Horizontal catchwords center of lower margin, verso.
Written in a calligraphic notarial hand with tall ascenders and strongly looped forms of letters d and b, above top line.
Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
Binding: England or U.S.A. [?], s. xix/xx. Quarter bound in orange goatskin with a gold-tooled label on spine ("Aristotle. Ethica, in Italian. XTVth Century") and marbled paper sides. Edges gilt.
Written in Italy at the end of the 13th or beginning of the 14th century; remains of inscription, s. xv?, on f. 18v: "Questo libro ***." Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: che 'H'uno
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 28.
Marston MS 29 Northern Italy, 1402
Lucan, Pharsalia PI. 8
1. f Ir Corduba me genuit. rapuit nero. prelia dixi . . . plus michi coma placet.
Epitaph of Lucan; Anthologia latina 668; B. Munk Olsen, U^tude des auteurs classiqties latins aux XT et Xlf siecles v. 2 (Paris, 1985) no. 45b.
2. ff. lr-132r Bella per Emathios plus quam ciuilia campos./ lusque datum sceleri canimus. populumque potentem/ . . . Ad campos epi- daure tuos. ubi solus apertis/ Obsedit muris calcantem menia magnum, [colophon:] .deo gratias. amen: finitur lucani liber ultimus .die. 22°. Septembris anno do mini. 1402. scriptus per me Nicolaum de florinis. amen.
Lucan, Pharsalia; G. Luck, ed. and tr., Lukan: Der Burgerkrieg (Berlin, 1985) pp. 72-504. Accompanied by extensive interlinear and marginal annotations; see art. 3.
3. ff lr-132r [In upper margin:] Titulus. Marcij lucij anei lucani liber primus incipit. Materia huius fuit ciuile bellum. artifex fuit lucanus. intentio. remouere homines a bello. cui parti phylosophie, supponitur morali ... [In outer margin, at first line of poetry:] Nota quod quatru- plex est bellum scilicet remotum videlicet quod fit [?] inter gentes . . . ;
48 MS 29
[in outer margin, line 8:] Hie autem. tria facit primo proponit. secundo inuocat. tertio narrat . . . [outer margin, f. 132r, at Bk. 10, line 543:] Respexit. quo dicit quod cesar ita circumdatus in loco illo arto in mente sua imaginatus est uidere seuam pugnantem solum . . . quod cesar fuit ymaginatus. nee prosequitur ulterius. deo gratias Amen.
Commentary on art. 2.
4. ff. 132v-134r Summa super toto opere lucani. Disparat elatos regni comunio. regna/ Indiuisa solent dispariare gradus./ Tres dictatores statuit sibi roma rebelles./ . . . Mors semiplenum stare coegit opus.
Unidentified verse summary of art. 2.
5. ff. 134r-135v Summa super primo libro lucani. Proponit primus liber, inuehit. inuocat atque/ Causas expo nit cursus proparantis ad urbem/ . . . Summa super decimo libro. Ut primum. primo notat ut perexit in urbem/ Egipti cesar. et ut est cleopatra locuta./ Et dapibus sumptis, . . . Praua {corrected from: Prima] duci cesos aduersa nefandaque passo. deo gratias. amen, [colophon:] Annos mille, quater centumque rotante du- osque/ Cursu, uigenam lucem ducente secundam/ Septembris, scripsit nicolaus sic opus istud./ Spirituique patri filio sit gloria semper./ Qui tres sunt unus. regit unus cunctaque trinus. f. 136r-v ruled, but blank
Verse argumenta of each book of the Pkarsalia; Anthologia latina 806.
Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head concealed by script), ff. i (early parchment flyleaf) + 136 + i (early parchment flyleaf), 310 x 209 (225 X 98) mm. 31 lines of verse. Double vertical bounding lines. Ruled in lead. Prickings in upper, lower and outer margins.
I-XVIII^. Catchwords, accompanied by a single dot at beginning and end, in lower margin to the right of center, verso. Remains of quire and leaf signatures (e.g., b 1, b 2, etc.), lower right corner, recto.
Written by a single scribe in well spaced gothic bookhand, above top line. Marginalia in several contemporary hands.
Crudely executed penwork initials in red, f. Ir only; spaces for decora- tive initials at beginning of each book have sketches in brown ink (contem- porary?) or are left unfilled. Headings in red. Some guide letters for decorator.
Binding: Italy, s. xv. Vellum stays in and outside the quires. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps which are laced through tunnels in the edges of wooden boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Plain, wound endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laced or laid in grooves on the outside of the boards.
MS 29 49
Quarter bound with brown leather, probably a later addition, as per- haps are the clasp straps. Two leaf-shaped catches and inscription in ink on the lower board: "Lucanus [?]." Front pastedown and flyleaf from a lectionary (Italy, s. XI^) containing: on the pastedown, the end of a proph- ecy reading and the beginning of the epistle reading for the Saturday of the Advent Rogation Days (Is. 45.1-8; Paul, 2 Thess. 2.1-6); on the flyleaf, the end of the gospel reading for the common of many virgins (Mt. 13.45- 53), both readings for the dedication of a church (Apo. 21.2-5; Lk. 19.1- 10), the beginning of the epistle reading for a mass for the dead (Paul, 1 Thess. 5.1-10). Back flyleaf and pastedown from a ho miliary (Northern Italy, s. X^) containing: on the flyleaf, a homily on the Eucharist and on Christ's acceptance of his passion, according to his Father's will ("//bu- eret remissionem cotidie in ara mactandum ... ut sine interitu iudeorum credat gentium multitudo passionem recuso. Sin autem//"); note that the text, which is marked in certain sections for recitation, is complete verti- cally, but has some cropping in the outer margin); on the pastedown, a homily on submission to the will of God, probably a continuadon of the same text as on the flyleaf ("// [?] mea pater uoluntas sed tua fiat. Nobis ergo exemplum posuit ut cum hoc imminet quod fieri uolumus . . . corporisque concretam [?] per [?]//").
Written in Northern Italy in 1402 by the scribe Nicolaus de Florinis (colo- phons in arts. 2, 5). Belonged to a member of the Capilupi family of Mantua whose inscripdon, s. xv, is written on f. 135v ("Lucanus Iste lohannis Francisci de Codelupis OpUmi ingenii luuenis"), perhaps to be identified with the father of Benedetto Capilupi (1461-1518; Dizionario biograjico degli italiani, v. 18, pp. 528-31). Unidentified contemporary pen trials on front and back flyleaves. Notes, s. xv-xvi, on verso of rear flyleaf: "Lucanus mei Francisci de buzono [or buxono?]" and on f. 136v: "Nul bien." Belonged to Giuseppe Qoseph) Martini of Lugano (his signature on front flyleaf, verso). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Etheris
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 29.
Marston MS 30 Italy, s. XV^
Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium, It. epitome, etc. PI. 1 1
1. ff. lr-33r [QJuella magna dignita dilectissimo fradello de la qual la humana natura e stata doctata dal summo Creatore como lo Intellecto
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ragioneuele non se puo explicare . . . Qui finise la sopra dicta Rethorica ne la qual sta tuta I'arte de lo dire la quale se puo ligieramente aver praticandolla e prendere la doctrina de Alguno excellente parlatore praticandola como se regiede.
Unidentified Italian epitome of the Ps.-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herenni- um. Folios lr-28v constitute the standard introduction, parts and divisions of rhetoric, followed by a discussion of figures and tropes (each indicated by a term written in the margin): f. 24r repetitio; f. 24v conversio, conquestio, exclamatio; f. 25r interrogatio, ratiocinatio; f. 25v menbrum \sic\\ f. 26r articulus, subietio, tradutio [sic\\ f. 26v diffinitio, transactio; f. 27r correctio, occupatio, disiuntio; f. 27v interpretatio, commutatio; f. 28r permissio, pressio, circuitio; f. 28v superlatio, allussio, distributio de sententie, ligentia; f. 29r diminutio; f. 29v distinc- tio, diuisio, frequentatio; f. 30r expolitio, similitudo; f. 30v confirmatio, significatio. Two sections follow on memoria (ff. 31r-32v) and pronuntia- tione (ff. 32v-33r).
2. ff. 33r-44r [Heading:] Una altra arte de memoria. [text:] [L]'arte della artificiosa memoria reverendo padre e come lo homo possa pervegnire per la memoria artificial a recordarse de piu cosse . . . E dapuo de sotto de li pesci I quali significano questo essere la quinta mercadantia e simele a questi amen.
Unidentified and anonymous treatise on memory divided into the following sections: f. 33r-v (Introduction); f. 34r-v In qual muodo se impara questa arte; ff. 34v-35r de la forma de li luoghi; ff. 35r-36v delle Imagine; f. 36v de arecordarse le ambasade; ff. 36v-37r de lo regitare de li argomenti; ff. 37r-38r de arecordarse uno sermone; f. 38r-v de arecordarse li testamenti o testo; f. 38v de li luogi da esser ordinadi; f. 38v del moltiplicar e mutare de logi; f. 38v de le Imagine; f. 38v de lo moltiplicare de la memoria; f. 39r delle Imagine; ff. 39r-v delli nomy cognosciuti; f. 39v de cognoscere le letere (with diagram); ff. 39v-40r de li nomy cognosciuti con anima e senga; f. 40r-v del cogno- scimento delli mexi delli di e delle figure de I'abicho; ff. 40v-41r delli nomy da douere metere gioe da essere messi per sillaba houer per similetudine; ff. 41r-44r delle merchandarie (ff. 41r-42v include a numbered list of 100 things found in 100 respective places in 20 rooms; f.43r includes a list of 7 items and their weights).
The text appears to be similar to a Latin memory treatise appended to the Rhetorica ad Herennium in London, B. L. Harley MS 3949 (ff. 45v- 47v) with the incipit "Reverende Pater et domine, qualiter homo ad recordandum de pluribus rebus per memoriam artificialem. . ." (report- ed in Kristeller, Iter Italicum, v. 3, p. 177b).
MS SO 51
3. f. 44r-v [Heading:] Una altra arte de memoria molto brieve, [text:] [S]e tu vuol tegnire ne la memoria alguna cossa houere pluxore cosse sen^a alguna scriptura guarda e pensa qualche luogo a ti delecteuolle . . . E per questo modo seguita che sempre honor e fama tuy hauera al mondo.
4. ff. 44v-45r Rx, Ad hauere perfecta e grande memoria segondo li antiqui philosophi . . . e temperado in tute le cosse e haueray la gratia del nostro Creatore.
Recipe for an ointment to improve memory.
5. f. 45r Ad iddem. Rx noxe muscate garrof[olum] galanga gardamonj grana paradisi . . . Item questa aqua da gran virtu alii spiriti et ha molte altre virtude e proprietade et cet.
Another recipe to improve memory.
6. ff. 45v-46r Chart depicting chambers of a memory palace described in art. 2 mapped onto the fingers of both hands.
f. 45v (Labeled at bottom of page) Man Sinestra
(thumb, top) la tua camera alogerai cose le quale te serano necessarie;
(thumb, bottom) El tuo studio intro el qual tu allogeray tuti i tuo sacreti e tute altre simile cosse;
(index, top) El tuo lecto qua tu i puo metere molti e de varij tuoi pensiery de vendere o conprare;
(index, bottom) un altra camera la tua dona e qua alogeray femene de che condicion tu vuol e schave e serue stagando quelle a servirla;
(middle, top) In la salla dono spariuiere e qua tu meteray tuti oxelli volatiui e caze e altre cosse de dilecto e di piaxere;
(middle, bottom) la septima camera ymagine cognosude se tu te vuole aricordare de lo p ouere z meti lo p overe lo z tuo amigo che faza qualche cosa difforme zioe rompere la bancha ha diga qualche cosa da ridere;
(ring, top) 8* camera di nomi longi o curti se *1 nome e longho meti la ymagine longa e del nome curto meti la ymagine curta e senga cavo;
(ring, bottom) 9* camera di nomy corti;
(little finger) 10 camera de le ciptade qua tui metera lo tuo amigo che '1 suo se confaza con quel de la cipta appicha per lo pe o ingenochioni
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con la scripU in mano la qual lui te la punta con el nome de la cipta;
f. 46r (labeled at bottom of page) Man dextra.
(little finger, top) la tua tauola qua tuy metera tute conse necesarie al viuere per la tua caxa over per la ciptade o per altre simel conse;
(little finger, bottom) i tuoy balcony qua tui metera tuti i pexi e marcadantie tuy I uol mandar fuora de la tua ciptade over de altro luogo;
(ring, top) la tua camera le tue veste e qua metera tute cose che aspeta ad tute merchantie e altre simel conse;
(ring, bottom) la quarta camera lo papaga e qua tuy metera gli exordij di sermoni e argumenti e tute simel conse;
(middle, top) a I'intrata de sala la camera lo papa vestido pontifical- mente e qua metera tute cosse che aspetara a perlati [sic] e a chiesia e a sacre cosse;
(middle, bottom) la segonda camera lo spechio al qual tu meteray testa- menti scripture e I'e tute cosse da morti;
(index, top) a meza scalla la camera e lo doctor al qual tu meterai tute consse che aspecta alia scientia e medesine;
(index, bottom) al capo dela schala la camera e lo inperadore vistido inperalmente e qua meteray tute anbasiade e cose de zudesi gioe le substantie appicada ad vno trauo e se Te tropo longa diuidela in piu parte;
(thumb, upper) porta lo o armado con la spada in mano per defensione e qua metera tuti i fati d'arme e simel cose e ogni altra tua defensione;
(thumb, lower) pe dela scalla la stalla con lo gran cauallo B[ianco — cf. f.36r] e qua tu metera tuti gli animali da quatro piedi. ff. 46v-50v ruled, but blank
Paper (coarse, remains of deckle edges; watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn), ff i (paper) + 50 (contemporary foliation 1-48 in Arabic numerals, in ink; modern, in pencil on leaves where original numbers trimmed) + i (paper), 204 x 145 (122 x 75) mm. 26 long lines. Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines in lead. Text lines ruled in ink for ff 41v-45r and 49r-50v only. Prickings for bounding lines.
I-V^°. Catchwords in lower margin to left of center, verso.
MS 30 53
Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line.
Spaces left for initials remain unfilled, except on f 25r where there are three poorly executed initials in red; guide letters for decorator. Para- graph marks and initial strokes, in red, ff. lr-2r, 30r-v, 35v, 37v, 38v, 40r, 41r-42v, 43v, 44v.
Binding: Italy [?], s. xix. Half bound in vellum with a gold-tooled spine and Spanish marbled sides. Ribbon bookmark.
Written in Italy in the first half of the 15th century; early provenance un- known. Belonged to the bookdealer Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano ["Mart 82" in pencil on back pastedown]. "188" in pencil on spine; "WW2/3/32" in pencil on front pastedown. Purchased from H. P. Kraus {List 189, no. 152) in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: La gratia
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 67, no. 30.
Marston MS 3 1 Venice, 1470s
Bartolomeo da Ferrara (attr. author), Polistorio PI. 35
1. front pastedown: Sempre si dize che'vno fa male A ccento/ . . . Che fazia in piede tenere la si[?] parole.
Sonnet by the Franciscan Alessandro de Ridis, or by his compatriot from L'Aquila, Buccio di Ranallo, lamenting the loss of a loaned book; printed (with variadons) by C, De Lollis, "Sonetti inediti di Buccio di Ra- nallo," Giomale storico delta letteratura italiana 8 (1886) pp. 242-47 at 246.
2. ff. lr-5v blank; ff. 6r-174r Qui Comenga La quarta partte ouer el quartto libra de polistoro chome octauiano intro in Roma triomphando fo chiamato imperadore de tvito el senato ed a tiUo el populo di Roma e di molte incidentie de cita e de philosophi. Rubrica Capitulof. Con go sia cosa che oramai da qui inanzi comenza nouo rezimento in roma e nouo imperio in tuto el mondo . . . Et si lo non I'o scripto cusi tosto come doueua. ancor vi prego che vuj me perdonatj perche tosto e bene non se conuenne. ffinitta est vltima pars polistorij. Deo gratias amen, ff 174v-177v ruled, but blank
Attributed to the Dominican Bartolomeo da Ferrara (1368-1444) by L. Muratori {Rerum Italicarum Scriptores 24 [Milan, 1738] pp. 697-848) who published only the last portion of the text (ff 131r-174r in Marston MS 31) which covers the years 1287-1367 (1286-1366 in the Beinecke MS).
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The attribution to Bartolomeo is, however, doubted by modern schol- ars (see entry by A. Alecci in the Dizionario biografico degli Italiani [Rome, 1964] v. 6, p. 719). Kaeppeli, SOPMA 395 (with attribution to Nicolaus de Ferraria, O. S. B.). The Beinecke text is divided into 218 chapters, most introduced by rubrics and chapter numbers in Arabic numerals. At least one later hand, s. xvii-xviii, has marked certain passages and has added dates in the margin.
Paper (watermarks: Briquet Arbalete 746), ff. i (contemporary paper; watermarks: Briquet Chapeau 3387) +174 (remains of original foliation, mostly trimmed; foliated 1-177, also in a contemporary hand, beginning with i = 1 and omitting 120 and 123) + ii (same contemporary paper as used for front flyleaf), 400 x 285 (295 x 192) mm. 2 columns, 48 lines. Single vertical bounding lines, full length, ruled in lead and crayon; rulings for text in brown ink (Derolez 13.41). Prickings in upper and lower margins.
I* (ruled, but blank), II-XVIII^^. Catchwords in majuscules, center of lower margin, verso (Derolez 12.1). Remains of leaf signatures in lower right corner, recto.
Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line.
Fully illuminated title page, f. 6r. Floral border in inner and upper margin, black inkspray with blossoms, green, blue and purple with white highlights and gold balls. Bar border between text columns, gold and red, extends from buds (mauve, green and blue with white highlights) with stylized foliage, purple, blue and green and gold with white highlights; surmounted in upper margin by half-length figure of Virgin with Child. In outer margin, elaborate partial border of stylized foliage and flowers, green, blue and purple with white and yellow highlights and gold balls, framing central wreathed medallion with triton blowing a curved horn, on gold ground with penwork filigree. In center of lower border, arms of the Marcello family of Venice (azure, a bend wavy or) on deep red ground within wreathed medallion, both with yellow highlights. Arms symmetrical- ly flanked by 2 putti plucking fruit from wreathed medallion and holding rods, green, blue, and purple with scrolls bearing the mottoes "sola virtus" and "dulcia poma" in red, and two triton-putti, one playing a flute, the other a stringed musical instrument. One historiated initial, 6-line, of stylized foliage in green, purple, and blue with white filigree on gold ground, with a half-length figure of a crowned and bearded man, perhaps the Emperor Augustus. The design of the upper and inner border and of the historiated initial is conservative in style and close to the work of Leonardo Bellini (see Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 233-34, no. 58). According to L. Armstrong {Renaissance Miniature Painters and Classical Imagery. The
MS 31 55
Master of the Putti and his Venetian Workshop [London, 1981] p. 117, no. 27, fig. 58) the decorative device in the outer border and the bas-de-page decoration originated in the workshop of the "Master of the Putti" whose motto appears on the scrolls. The composition in Marston MS 31 is, however, somewhat more awkward and poorly executed than the work of the Master himself.
Binding: Italy, s. xv. Parchment stays are adhered inside the quires. Rear pastedown (now lifted): parchment leaf from a lectionary, Italy (North?), s. XI^; a parchment leaf, perhaps from the same manuscript, is concealed under front paper pastedown. Each leaf, with a stub, is folded around the front and back flyleaves, sewn, and glued down under the pastedowns. Original sewing on five tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of beech boards and nailed. Yellow edges. Plain wound, natural color endbands are sewn on leather cores.
Covered in brown calf with narrow corner tongues. There is a large, eight-petalled fitting in the central blind-tooled panel and four corner fittings have flower and agnus dei designs on them. The concentric outer frames are filled with rope interlace or small roses. The Marcello arms (see above and provenance) were stamped on each board on an inlaid leather shield which is wanting on the upper board. Spine: bands outlined with triple fillets, an X of three fillets in the panels. Four fastenings, the catches on the lower board, the upper one cut in for red fabric straps, attached with star-headed nails.
Written in Venice in the 1470s in the workshop of the "Master of the Putti"; notes of the workshop appear in the lower margin on f. 174r ("236 letere/ 178 karte") and on the front pastedown ("Questo sie libro quarto di polistorio di karte 174/ non schrite karte 3 a drietro e karte 5 auanti"). A contemporary comment on the text has been added above the work- shop note on the front pastedown: "A karta 120 che he vna charta com- plida sie la istoria di I'inperadore f. barbaroxa con veniziane pro defen- xione di la giexa romana." Produced for a member of the Marcello family of Venice whose arms appear on f. 6r and binding. T. E. Marston believed that the manuscript may have been a presentation copy from the Floren- tine Arte della Lana to Niccolo Marcello upon his election as Doge of Venice in 1473; there is no evidence except for the "agnus dei" design on the binding to support this hypothesis. Contemporary note on f Iv: "sancta doratea sancta doratea." Unidentified shelf-marks include: on upper cover a white rectangular label with "d 143" in ink (same shelf-mark on f 2r); remains of paper label with title on spine; "349" in ink on f. Ir; "Cas: N. 73" in ink on f. 2r; "Historia di Nicolo Polistoro" on f. 5r. Acquired from Payne by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 3008; tag on spine;
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stamp on f. 2r); Phillipps sale (Sotheby's, 1 Dec. 1947, no. 108, pi. of f. 6r). Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (book- plate).
secundo folio: E tra
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, pp. 67-68, no. 31.
Marston MS 32 France, s. XV^
Paulus Venetus, Summulae naturalium
ff. lr-171r [Tide:] Summule naturalium magistri Pauli veneti ordinis heremitarum sancti AugusUni physicorum liber incipit. [text:] Plurimorum astrjctus precibus quorum pridem. Mee introducUonis eloquium in facultate logice mentem demulserat. Vt suo in naturalibus modo propositi- onis physicisque doctrinis formare compendium ... hie per gratiam et in futuro per gloriam quam mi hi in premium [?] tantorum laborum donare dignetur per infinita seculorum secula. Amen. Laus deo. [colophon:] Explicit ultima pars summule naturalium Acta per Reuerendum magis- trum Paulum de Venetiis ordinis heremitarum Sancti AugusUni. Frater petrus de sancto Amore eiusdem ordinis Scripsit Anno Domini MCCCLXXIII [sic], f. 171v blank
Numerous manuscripts and early printed editions of this text composed in 1408 by Paulus Nicolettus Venetus O.E.S.A. (1369/72-1429); see C. H. Lohr, "Medieval Latin Aristotle Commentaries, Authors: Narcissus-Richar- dus," Traditio 28 (1972) pp. 317-18, no. 5 (Marston MS 32 not listed). Two additional colophons with the date 1373 (for 1473?) also occur at the conclusion of Parts 3 and 5, ff. 72r, 129v. Some contemporary marginal annotations. Folio 171, written in a different hand and on different paper, may have been copied later as a replacement leaf.
Paper (watermarks, obscured by text: similar to Harlfmger Chapeau 17 and unidentified ladder), ff. ii (paper) + 171 (contemporary foliation, Arabic numerals, 1-60 only) + ii (paper), 331 x 225 (229 x 145) mm. 2 columns, 50 lines. Single vertical bounding lines and sometimes a single upper horizontal bounding line. Ruled in light brown ink and lead. No visible remains of prickings.
I_VI^^, VII-IX*^ X^ XI -XVI ^^ XVII^ (-8). Catchwords, with pen flour- ishes on all sides, center or right of center in lower margin, verso.
Written by several scribes in humanisdc cursive script with gothic features, below top line; initial words of each secdon in gothic bookhand.
MS 32 57
Decorated title page, f. Ir, with border, in black and red ink composed of various decorative devices: in the upper margin a bar border with a central semicircle flanked by stylized scrolls in black and red. In the outer margin, a roundel, black with red and black frame, fdled with a flower of 6 petals in red; the roundel flanked by stylized scrolls. In center of lower margin a medallion framed in narrow black and red bands containing a flaming heart pierced by an arrow and an open book, also flanked by stylized scrolls. Numerous decorated initials, 30- to 4-line, black and red with interior designs of lozenges, small flowers, and wavy lines of paper ground. Plain initials and paragraph marks in red. Guide letters for rubricator throughout.
Worm-eaten; some minor loss of text.
Binding: England, s. xix. Blind-tooled brown goatskin with the same gold-tooled title on the spine and both covers: "Summule Naturalium/ Paulus de Venetiis/ M. S. 1373." Bound by Riviere (London) before 1881. Red edges.
Written probably in France in the second half of the 1 5th century to judge from the script, decoration, and watermarks. The colophons (see art. I), however, give the date 1373 (perhaps an error for 1473?). The scribe remains unidentified except for this manuscript {Colophons, v. 5, p. 133, no. 15893). Sold by Maggs Brothers (London, Cat. 542, June 1930, no. 93, with plate of f. Ir). Belonged to E. Crawshaw (bookplate). Modern note {bis), in pencil, on front flyleaves: "28" within circle. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill (inv. no. 3036) in 1953 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Licet sit
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 32.
Marston MS 34 Germany, s. XII'/^ XII/XIII
Petrus Riga, Aurora
ff. lr-136v [Prose preface:] Incipit uetus testamentum. Frequens sodalium meorum peticio cum quibus conuersando florem infancie exegi . . . et ueritatis fulgor patenter illuxit. Explicit prologus. Incipit [remainder of rubric illegible; text begins:] Primo facta die. duo celum terra leguntur/ Fit firmamenti spera sequente die/ . . . apud te pascha paretur//
P. E. Beichner, ed., Aurora Petri Rigae Biblia Versiftcata, Publications in Mediaeval Studies 19 in 2 vols. (Notre Dame, Ind., 1965); we provide page references to this edition in square brackets below. Stegmiiller 6823-25.
58 MS 34
The text, composed of three different parts (see also physical description and provenance below), appears in the following order. Part I: Genesis, with Petrus Riga's prose preface, f. Ir [pp. 7-8, 21-90]; Exodus, f. 23r [pp. 91-144]; Leviticus, f. 43r [with prologue and with the verses De avibus, Beichner, p. 171, on a half-sheet of parchment added between ff. 50-52; the scribe has noted that the verses should be inserted on f. 52v after De piscibus; pp. 145-78]; Numbers, f. 55r [pp. 179-203]; Deuteronomy, f 64r [with prologue; pp. 207-17]; Joshua, f. 68v, with text ending imperfectly on f. 72r, line 243 [pp. 219-29]. f. 72v blank except for erased pen trials. Part II: Job, f. 73r [with prologue consisting of lines 9-10 and 17-18 only; heading erased], text ends complete on f 112v, but is much rubbed and followed by numerous pen trials [pp. 669-702]. Part III: Evangelium, ff. 113r-136v beginning and ending imperfectly [lines 567-2268: pp. 447- 512].
Composed of three parts, with I and III in the same format and pos- sibly from the same manuscript, ff. i (modern parchment) + 136 + i (mod- ern parchment).
Parts I and III: parchment, ff. 1-72 and 113-136, 162 x 115 (137 x 70) mm. 35 lines of verse. Double upper and sometimes lower horizontal bounding lines. Double or triple inner and single outer vertical bounding lines. Ruled in lead. Few remains of prickings suggest the sections were greatly trimmed. Collation for Part I: I-VI^ VIl^ (with half-leaf, f. 51, added in), VIII^ IX^ (-1?). Quires signed with Roman numerals 1-VIII (IX unsigned); Part III: X^ (unsigned), XI-XII® (signed with Roman numerals XI and XII on first recto of each gathering). Copied by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand, with first letter of each verse usually aligned on the second vertical bounding line. Red initials, plain or with modest designs throughout. Headings in red often added to right of text. First letter of each verse stroked in red or ochre, often by drawing a single line the length of the written space.
Part II: parchment (thick and fuzzy), ff. 73-112, 167 x 115 (122 x 84) mm. 28 lines of verse. Triple vertical bounding lines; ruled very faintly in hard point or lead. Prickings prominent in upper, lower and outer mar- gins. I-V®. The second gathering signed in red with the Roman numeral II. Written by multiple scribes in a larger module and a neater gothic script than that in Parts I and III; each verse is justified by the placement of the final letter along outer vertical ruling. Script has often been re- traced. Plain initials and headings in red throughout.
Binding: Belgium, s. xix. Tan calf over wooden boards, blind-tooled with the Arenberg arms on the sides. Title on spine: "Sacrae Scripturae excerptae/ Circa 1225-50." Remains of old fore-edge tabs.
MS 34 59
All three parts were written in Germany, Part II in the fourth quarter of the 12th century and Parts I and III at the end of the 12th or beginning of the 13th century. Parts I and III, given the similar format and the sequence of quire signatures, perhaps comprised at one time a single unit. It is not clear when the three parts were joined together, but probably before the early ex libris and book curse (s. xiii?) of the abbey of St. Eucharius and St. Matthias the Apostle in Trier were added in lower margin, f. Ir, and along inner margin, f. 136v: "Codex sancti Evcharii sanctique. Mathie apostoli. Quem si quis abstulerit anathema sit. Amen." For more information and bibliography on the library of this abbey see P. Becker, "Notizen zur Bibliotheksgeschichte der Abtei St. Eucharius-St. Matthias," Armaria Trevirensia. Beitrdge zur Trierer Bibliotheksgeschichte. 2., stark erweiterte Auflage, ed. G. Franz (Wiesbaden, 1985) pp. 44-63. Early press-mark [?] in upper right corner on f. Ir: "X.[?]13." Inscription of one Gerardus on ff. llOv and 112v. From the library of the Dukes of Arenberg (binding); for a discussion of this collection see C. Lemaire, "La biblio- theque des dues d* Arenberg, une premiere approche," Liber amicorum Herman Liebaers 1984 (Brussels, 1984) pp. 81-106 (Marston MS 34 cited on p. 104). Unidentified labels on spine. "20" on square cream-colored label, "No 16/2 me Sene [?]" in red ink on white rectangular label with serrated edge and blue border. "No 26" and "B,7" on front pastedown. Presented by Otto Rauschberg in 1956 (inscription on front pastedown) to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Firmamenta
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 34.
Marston MS 35 Ferrara, ca. 1460-75
Biondo Flavio, Italia lUustrata PI. 34
ff. lr-149r [Dedication:] Sanctissimo .Domino. Nostro. Domino Nicolao. Q. Summo Pontijici Blondus Flavivs Forliviensis. Cum multi historiam beatissime pater uariis extollant celebrentque sententiis . . . [text, f. 2r:] Blondi Elavil For- liviensis Italic Illustrate liber incipit felidssime. Italiam describere exorsi pro- uinciarum orbis primariam a laudibus suis incipere debuimus . . . Superius Fortorii amnis fonti Monsfaico castellum est proximum. f. 149v blank
Biondo Flavio, Italia Illustrata with the dedicatory preface to Pope Nicholas V (d. 1455); edited by Biondo's son Gaspare for the editio princeps (Rome, Johannes Philippus de Ugnamine, 1474; GKW, v. 4, no. 4421). Marston MS 35 is a copy of the early B-version of the text; it contains the
60 MS 35
dedication, a number of additions later expunged, and some additions contained in the revised E-version of the text. See J. A. White, "Towards a Critical Edition of Biondo Flavio's 'Italia lUustrata': A Survey and an Evaluation of the MSS," JJmanesimo a Roma nel Quattrocento, ed. P. Brezzi and M. De Panizza Lorch (Citta di Castello, 1984) pp. 267-93 (Marston MS 35: pp. 283-84).
Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 149 + ii (paper), 310 x 225 (180 x 130) mm. Single vertical bounding lines, full length. Additional rulings in upper margin for running titles and in outer margin for rubrics. Ruled in pale brown ink. Prickings in upper and lower margins.
I-XIV^**, XV^^ (-10). Horizontal catchwords in lower margin between inner bounding lines and gutter, verso (Derolez 12.4). Vertical catchwords on inner vertical bounding line (f. llOv and thereafter).
Written in fine humanistic bookhand, below top line, by a single scribe who also wrote the running tides (epigraphic majuscules) and marginalia, in red.
Elaborately illuminated title page with historiated initial, 10-line, mauve with silver filigree against gold ground, edged in black, with a portrait of the author, seated and holding a book, against a hilly landscape and blue sky. Partial border of white vine-stem ornament against a predominantly gold ground with blue, green, and red patches with white and pale yellow dots in inner and upper margins, terminating in dense penwork scrolls with gold dots. In outer and lower margin, border of stylized flowers and foliage in red, purple, green, and blue, surrounded by dense penwork scrolls punctuated by gold dots (cf. Oxford, Bod. Lib. MS Canon. Pal. Lat. 164; Pacht and Alexander, v. 2, no. 431, pi. XLII). The style of the pen- work decoration is similar to that of Evangelista da Reggio, active in Ferrara from 1477-94 (see Abbey Manuscripts, pp. 137-39, pis. LXI, b; LXII; LXIII). In center of lower margin, wreathed medallion with uniden- tified arms (or a two-headed eagle displayed, crowned [?], armed and membered gules; overall an inescutcheon gules, a fess argent), supported by two purple winged putti outlined in blue and wearing red necklaces. 14 illuminated initials, 9- to 6-line, gold, on blue, green, and red ground with white vine-stem ornament, sometimes extending into the margins. Headings, running titles, and marginalia in red.
Binding: England, s. xviii. Red goatskin gold-tooled, with the crest of Charles Chauncy on the sides (see provenance below). Gilt edges. Re- backed. The fine quality of the endleaves and leather, and the tool used on the edges of the boards and the turn-ins are similar to those in Mar- ston MS 102 and Beinecke MS 497, both probably bound by Richard Wier, active in London and France in the 1770s (d. 1792).
MS 35 61
Written in Ferrara ca. 1460-75 by the "Scribe of the Maffei Vergil" (Chicago, Newberry Library, 95.5); according to A. C. de la Mare the scribe was also responsible for Vienna, Osterreichische Nationalbibliothek Cod. 35, signed Ferrara 1468; Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University, Houghton Library Typ 425, signed Ferrara 1463; VaUcan City, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Ross. 439, signed Ferrara 1462; Brussels, Bibl. Roy. IV. 185, dated 1471. Probably produced at the court of the d'Este. Be- longed to Dr. Charles Chauncy (1709-77; bookplate; crest on binding) who bequeathed his collection to his brother Nathaniel (d. 1790); sale (Leigh and Sotheby, 15 April 1790, no. 3150). Acquired by Michael WodhuU, Esq., of Thenford, Northamptonshire (1740-1816); his inscrip- tions on f. ii recto and rear flyleaf with dates "May 1st 1790" and "Aug. 14th 1793." After Wodhull's death the manuscript remained in his family until it was sold by J. E. Severne (Sotheby's, 12 Jan. 1886, no. 420, to Quaritch). Bought by Thomas Brooke, F. S. A., of Armitage Bridge, Huddersfield (1830-1908; bookplate); sale of Sir John Arthur Brooke of Fenay Hall, Huddersfield (Sotheby's, 25 May 1921, no. 124). Inside front cover: white square label, with grey decorative circle, within which is written "A./ II. /31." in ink. Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1956 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: hominibus
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 35. Exhibition Catalogue, pp. 230-31, no. 55.
Marston MS 36 Southern France, s. XIV^^^
Cottofredo da Trani, Summa super tituUs Decretalium, etc.
1. ff. lr-148v Incipit summa super titulis decretalium compilata a magistro gaufrido de trano dominipape subdyacono, et capellano. Rubrica. [prologue:] Glosarum diuersitas intelligenciam textus non numquam obtenebrat. et dum pereas . . . [text:] De summa trinitate et fide catholica. Post prohe- mium breuiter edocemur, quare hec noua compilatio facta sit . . . malui repeti quam deesse. [colophon:] Explicit liber quintus qui scripsit sit benedictus.
Edition: Goffredus Tranensis, Summa super titulis decretalium (Lugduni, 1519; repr. Aalen, 1968). One leaf with text missing between ff. 60 and 61. Text is accompanied by some contemporary notes and pointing hands in margins. Finding aids consisting of chapter titles in lower right corner, recto (ff. 2-46).
62 MS 36
2. f. 148v Two recipes for treatment of sore eyes, in Lat.
3. f. 149r List of Roman emperors from Julius Caesar to Constantine.
4. f. 149v Beginning of a word list, for the letter A only.
5. f. 150r (back flyleaf) blank; f. 150v Miscellaneous notes, in Lat.
Parchment, ff. ii (parchment, early flyleaves?) + 149 + ii (parchment, early flyleaves?), 410 x 225 (295 x 160) mm. 2 columns, 64 lines. Single vertical bounding lines, full length. Ruled in lead. Prickings in upper and lower margins.
I-VI^^ VII**' (-1), VIII-XV^°. Catchwords in lower margin under inner column, verso. First leaves of each quire signed with letters of alphabet, in red, lower right corner, recto {a through v on ff. 1-74).
Written in a rounded gothic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations and finding aids by a contemporary hand in less formal script.
5 fine illuminated initials, 30- to 7-line, in blue or pink with white filigree on blue and red grounds framed in blue or red accentuated at the corners by gold dots. Infilled with intertwining or angular vines, some with biting head terminals, mauve or blue with white highlights and gold dots. Ascenders and descenders, red, mauve and blue terminating in spiralling serifs with biting animal heads or grotesques against cusped grounds (cf. R. Branner, Manuscript Painting during the Reign of St. Louis [Berkeley, 1977] fig. 282). Two initials with vines issuing from upper and lower corners, blue with white highlights ending in grotesques. 3- and 2-line cal- ligraphic initials, red and blue with blue and red penwork. Plain initials al- ternating in red and blue. Headings in red; running titles (chapter num- bers) alternating red and blue. Instructions to rubricator in lower margins.
Binding: France, s. xix. Early sewing on five supports with 19th-century boards covered in parchment. Title on spine: "Gofredo de Trano/ Manu- scrit."
Written in Southern France in the first quarter of the 14th century; notes on final flyleaves and pastedown (s. xiv-xv), severely affected by reagents and rubbing, include: unidentified monogram; two 2-line Latin poems written in French batarde (s. XV^); a note dated "1384"; the name "hugo carinfias [or tarinfias?]." Bookstamp and inscription ("Ex Biblioth. D. presidis de Montesquieu Catal. inscrip.") of the Bibliotheca Bredensis (Charles Louis de Secondant, Baron de, Marquis de Montesquieu; 1689-1755) f. Ir, lower margin. Booklabel of comte Chandon de Briailles (b. 1852; Dictionnaire de Biographie de France, v. 8, cols. 370-71) on first front flyleaf. "703 his'' in red on f. i recto; "70657659 [or 4?]" on back cover; "PP [?]/ XI-1954" in
MS 36 63
pencil on back pastedown. Purchased from Georges Heilbrun of Paris in 1955 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 663), who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Nam
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 36.
Marston MS 37 Bologna [?]. s. XIV^
Valerius Maximus, with commentary of PI. 7
Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri, etc.
1. ff. lr-3v Maximi ualerij uerborum suauitas me inducit et quorundam dilectorum fratrum caritas me compellit. ut operi prefati autoris iun- gam ego frater Giunta de sancto gemiano [?] ordinis herimitarum sancti augustini Inuentarium sine tabulam . . . Abstinencia li°. iiij**. c. iij°. per totum/ Absolucio . . . Vxor li. vi. c. vii. per totum.
Alphabetical index to Valerius Maximus by Junta de Sancto Geminiano; D. Schullian, CTC 5 (1984) p. 301 (lists seven manuscripts, including Marston MS 37, which contain the index; gives bibliography and sugges- tions regarding the possible identity of the indexer).
2. ff. 3v-4r Valerii Maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium romanorum liber, primvs Incipit Tabula. De religione obseruata. 2./ De neglecta religione. 4./ . . . De hijs qui infimo loco nati mendacio se clarissimis familijs inserere conati sunt. 138. f. 4v blank
Table of contents for all nine books; folio references in Arabic numer- als added by a later hand which has also foliated the main text of the manuscript and added book numbers in center of upper margin.
3. f. 5r Reuerendo in christo patri et suo domino spirituali domino lohanni de columpna diuina prouidencia . . . et consumacionis finem accepi possitis glorie sociari.
Dedication to Giovanni Colonna of the commentary of Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri; ed. D. Schullian, op. cit., pp. 325-26.
4. ff. 5r-141r Urbis rome et cetera. Valerius huic operi suo. primo prohemium ponit in quo suum propositum ostendens . . . Et ipse deus iusto seruicio colitur. In cuius cultu sincero eterna uita promictitur. In secula seculorum. Amen.
Commentary on Valerius Maximus by Dionysius de Burgo Sancti
64 MS 37
Sepulchri; D. Schullian, op. ciL, pp. 326-29 (Marston MS 37 listed on p. 327); beginning on f. 5v the commentary surrounds the text of Valerius Maximus in all four margins.
5 . ff . 5 V- 1 4 1 r Valerij maximjfactorum et dictorum memorabilium. liber primus Incipit de religione. Urbis rome exterrarumque gencium facta simul ac dicta memoratu digna . . . credula suffragacione fultum caput imperio dementer imminens iusto inpendere supplicio coegit.
Valerius Maximus, Factorum et dictorum memorabilium libri novem; C. Kempf, ed., Teubner, 2nd ed. 1888, reprinted 1966, pp. 1-472. Irregu- larities in Marston MS 37 include: vi.2.2-3 misplaced from f. 88r to 88v; ix.5.2-3 omitted between ff. 132-133; eleven lines, ix.9.2, erased on f. 135r; text on ff. 140v-141r (after ix.15.2: "Hannibal autem canensis pugne . . . publice terrenius adfixus est") marked "uacat" in margin is unidentified.
6. f. 141v Decimus huius operis liber, qui est ultimus uel neglegencia. uel maliuolentia librariorum deperiit. Abbreviator ue titulos eius habebat integre fortasis . . . [text begins:] Varro simplicia in ytalia fuisse nomina. ait existimacionisque sue argumentum refert . . . Dictum postumum communium. auricum et postumum ebu// f. 142r-v blank
Julius Paris, Epitome of Valerius Maximus, ending imperfectly; Kempf,
op. cit., pp. 587-88.
Parchment, ff. i (contemporary parchment) + 141 (early foliation 1-141, in ink, begins on current f. 5, skips 119, and includes back flyleaf and pastedown; modern foliation, in pencil) + i (contemporary parchment). Format for ff. 1-4 varies; remainder of codex: 354 x 243 (292 x 200) mm. Text in 2 columns of 15-43 lines, surrounded by up to 78 lines of com- mentary. Single vertical bounding lines, full length. Ruled in crayon. Remains of prickings in upper and lower margins.
I^ (1, 2 = front pastedown and flyleaf), II^ ^I-IV^ V«, VI-X^ XI^ XII^ XIII^ XIV-XVIII^ XIX-XX^ XXI^ (-2; 3, 4 = back flyleaf and pastedown). Catchwords with dots on either side, in left lower margin, verso. Remains of quire and leaf signatures (e.g., f i, f ii, f iii, etc.) in black or red, in lower right corner, recto. Unidentified signatures, Roman numerals, in lower left corner, verso.
Large historiated initial, f. 5r, 17-line, mauve with white filigree and stylized foliage in red and green against gold ground, thickly edged in black. Initial filled with a half-length portrait in profile of a man in black robes and a black cap, probably Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri. Foliage serifs, blue, red, mauve, and green with gold balls thickly edged in
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black extending into the upper and inner margins to form a partial border, which extends as stylized foliage scrolls, blue and purple into the lower margin. Gold balls partially or completely flaked. Numerous illumi- nated initials, 9- to 4-line, mauve with white highlights, filled with stylized foliage, green, red and blue on blue grounds with white filigree. Initials for the text against gold grounds, thickly edged in black; initials for commentary against blue ground with white filigree. Some initials with foliage serifs, pink, red and/or blue and gold balls thickly edged in black extending into margins. Pen and ink initials, 3-line, alternate blue and red with red and purple penwork. Headings in red. Plain initials touched with yellow.
Binding: Spain, s. xv. Own parchment endleaves, one cut out in back. Original sewing on five tawed skin slit straps laid in channels on the outside of wooden boards and fastened. Yellow edges. The natural color, plain wound endbands are sewn through the spine lining on tawed skin cores which are laid in grooves on the outside of the boards. The spine is lined with vellum extending inside the boards between supports.
Covered in red-brown goatskin blind-tooled with an Xin an outer frame and crosses made of decorated circles in the divisions. Four fastenings, truncated diamonds at head and tail and shields at the fore edge, on the lower board. The clasp straps are attached with star-headed nails. Traces of five small round bosses on each board. Traces of incised inscription near the head of the lower board. Spine leather missing. Described in Walters Art Gallery, Bookbinding, p. 57, no. 133.
Written in Central Italy, probably Bologna to judge from the style of decoration, in the second half of the 14th century; bound in Spain at the beginning of the 15th century; early provenance otherwise unknown. Belonged to the Spanish writer D. Martin Panzano y Abos (d. 1775; bookplate; Enciclopedia Univenal Ilustrada, v. 41, p. 906) and to Francois Robert Secousse (bookplate with "No 184/31" added in ink). Unidentified bookplate on front pastedown. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: [index, f. 3r:] Pietas
[text of commentary, f. 6r:] fuit octauianus
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 37.
66 MS S8
Marston MS 38 Florence, ca. 1450-60
Diogenes Laertius, Lat. tr. Axnbrogio Traversari PI. 19
1. front flyleaf, recto Alphabetical index of names: Anacarsis scytha, Anaxi- mander milesius . . . Zeno cittieus, Zeno eleates. Vite omnes supra- scripte numero Lxxxii insupra [?]. A second hand has added folio references to each entry. Verso of flyleaf is blank.
2. ff. lr-179r [Letter, no heading:] Voluenti mihi quedam greca iLolumina iLenit ad mantis Zoertii diogenis de philosophis prolixum opus. Id etsi auctori plus in legendo studii quam inscribendo. . . . [text, f. 2r:] Laertii Diogenis uitae atque sententie eorum qui in philosophia claruerunt liber primus incipit. Philosophiam a barbaris initia sumpsisse plerique autu- mant. Namque apud persas clauisse magos . . . non sunt defuncti celeriorem obitum. Laertii Diogenis uite atque sententie eorum qui in philosophia claruerunt. Liber decimus et ultimus explicit, f. 179v ruled, but blank
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae et sententiae philosophorum, translated into Latin by Ambrogio Traversari and preceded by his dedicatory letter to Cosimo de' Medici. Notes, corrections, and variant readings added by the scribe and at least one contemporary hand.
Parchment, ff. ii (contemporary parchment bifolium; i = front paste- down) + 180 (contemporary foliadon, Roman numerals 1-179, with 120 bis) + ii (contemporary parchment bifolium; i excised, ii = back paste- down), 335 X 230 (205 x 125) mm. 32 long lines. Double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length and full width (Derolez 13.36). Ruled in hard point on hair side. Prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins (Derolez 18.1).
I-XVI^^ XVII-XVIII^ XIX^ Horizontal catchwords in lower inner margin near gutter, verso (Derolez 12.4).
Main text written in round humanistic bookhand by a single scribe; art. 1 added in humanistic cursive by a contemporary hand.
Decorated by the unidendfied "Master of the Riccardiana Lactantius" (Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana MS 544), who may have been the master for the Florentine illuminator Mariano del Buono and whose work is characterized by well drawn but badly colored animals. For other manu- scripts by the same artist see Garzelli, Miniatura fiorentina, pp. 200-01. The decoration consists of a 3/4 border, f. Ir, of intricate white vine-stem ornament curling around thin gold bars (doubled in inner and lower margins) on a blue, green and pale pink ground dotted with white, yellow and blue, and gold balls. Incorporated into the lower border are a medal-
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lion (blank) framed by a laurel wreath and two narrow gold bands, a stag, and a putto with multi-colored wings in blue, green and dark red. In the inner margin are two birds in brown, orange and white. Ten illuminated initials, 9- to 4-line, gold on blue, green and pale pink background with white vine-stem ornament. Numerous smaller initials, 3- to 2-line, gold on blue and pink or green and pink grounds with white and gold filigree. Headings in black majuscules. Running headlines, in red, on ff. 1-4 only.
Some worming at beginning of text.
Binding: Italy, s. xv. A hybrid Italo-Greek binding. Sewn or resewn (the sewing is too tight to determine with certainty) on five tawed skin, slit straps. Wooden boards which are not flush at head and tail are grooved on the edges. Beaded Western endbands added.
Covered in dark brown calf, blind-tooled with a triple cross made up of gilt annular dots and rope interlace in a central panel within concentric frames alternately made up of a beaded zigzag ribbon and feathered rinceau. Similar tools are used on Marston MSS 39 and 68. Spine: bands outlined and panels diapered with triple fillets. Traces of four braid-and- pin fastenings, the pins in the edges of the lower board instead of the upper board as is usual in Greek bindings. "Diogenes ***" is added on the fore edge; "diogenes laergi" is written in batarde (see also provenance) on a label under horn at the head of the upper board, possibly added in northern Europe. See Walters Art Gallery, Bookbinding, pp. 87-88, no. 197; The Medieval Book, pp. 66-67, no. 60, with plate of upper board.
Written in Florence ca. 1450-60; a contemporary note on the front pastedown indicates that Brother Bogart bought the manuscript in 1465 from Ludovicus de Bancis (perhaps to be identified with Ludovico Banchi, Cosenza, v. 1, p. 380): "Ludouico de bancis. Emi ego frater Bogart hunc librum a Ludouico de Bancis pro x due. large 1465 de mense lanuarij." The style of bata^rde script on the horn label on the upper cover suggests either that the manuscript travelled north to Belgium after it was bound, or that it was acquired by a Belgian owner (Brother Bogart?) who added the label. On back pastedown is contemporary inscription "Angelot." Unidentified inscriptions, s. xix, on front pastedown: "Bibl. Brunnd [?] Sept. 1849" and '•AGl[***]ly." Entry from sale catalogue, in Italian, pasted inside front cover. **98" in ink on entry and in pencil on front pastedown; "468" in pencil on rear pastedown. Purchased from Alexander Simkho- vitch in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Tibi itaque Cosme Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 38.
68 MS 39
Marston MS 39 Florence, 1453
Cicero, De oratore. Pro Milone, Pro Ligario PI. 20
1. ff. lr-121v M. T. Ciceronis de. oratore ad .Q. fratrem liber primus foeliciter incipit. Cogitanti mihi sepenumero et memoria Vetera repetenti perbeati fuisse Quinte frater illi uideri solent qui in optima re publica . . . et ali- quando ab hac contentione disputationis animos nostros curamque laxemus: M. T. Ciceronis de oratore liber tertius et ultimus foeliciter explicit. Tzkoq. * [surrounded by dots and flourishes here and at conclusion of arts. 2 and 3]. Phylippus Corbizus manu propria scripsit MCCCC° UII. ff. 122r-124v ruled, but blank
Cicero, De oratore I-III; K. F. Kumaniecki, ed., Teubner fasc. 3 (1969) pp. 1-362. The scribe has entered into the margins both corrections to the text and variant readings that are usually marked by the abbrevia- tions ul or al; annotations are decorated with dots and flourishes in the same manner as the catchwords.
2. ff. 125r-144v M. T. Ciceronis oratio ad iudices pro .T. Amnio Milone foeli- citer incipit. Et si vereor iudices ne turpe sit pro fortissimo uiro dicere incipientem timere minimeque deceat ... in iudicibus legendis opti- mum et sapientissimum quemque legit. 4».
Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 13- 66. In art. 2 and to a lesser extent in art. 3 key rhetorical words have been entered in the margins (e. g., on f. 125r: Capiat beniuolentiam a persona Milonis, Expolitio, Ratio propositionis, Distributio, Correctio). No rhetorical words appear on ff. 133v-144v.
3. ff. 145r-151v [In upper margin:] YHS. [heading:] M. T. Ciceronis oratio ad Cesarem pro .Q. Ligario foeliciter incipit. Nouum crimen .c. cesar et ante hunc diem inauditum propinquus meus. [to be inserted from margin: ad te .Q.] tubero detulit .Q. ligarium in africam fuisse . . . Tantum te ipsum admonebo si ilH absenti salutem dederis presentibus his omnibus te daturum. Tzkoc,. Explicit. <E>. f. 152r-v ruled, but blank
Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 84-100.
Paper (coarse; remains of deckle edges; watermarks: Briquet ^chelle 5904, Briquet Fleur 6306, and similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3668), ff. i (paper, later addition) + 152 + i (paper, later addition), 220 x 147 (140 x 95) mm. 25 long lines. Double vertical bounding lines, full length (Derolez 13.31); ruled in hard point.
I-XII^^ XIII^ XIV-XV^^, XVI^^ (-2). Catchwords with symmetrically
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arranged dots and flourishes perpendicular to text between inner bound- ing lines, verso (Derolez 12.5). Leaf signatures (e.g., 1, 2, 3, etc.) in lower right corner, recto.
Written in a neat upright humanistic cursive by a single scribe.
Partial border, f. Ir, white vine-stem ornament on blue, green and pink ground with white and pale yellow dots. At the terminals, gold balls with hair-line extensions. Illuminated initial, 4-line, gold on blue, green and red ground as above joined to the border. In lower margin, wreathed medallion for arms (drawn with a compass), blank. Five smaller initials, 4- and 3-Iine, gold on blue, green and red rectangular grounds with white or pale yellow filigree and white dots. Headings and colophons in red.
Binding: Italy, s. xv. Stays cut from parchment manuscripts (text washed) inside the quires and also outside the first two. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps attached to wooden boards. Beaded, chevron, natural, pink, and green endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores.
Covered in dark brown calf with narrow corner tongues and blind- tooled with two circles and corners of rope interlace in a central panel with concentric frames, one with beaded zigzag ribbon tools similar to those on Marston MSS 38 and 68, and gilt annular dots. Spine: double fillets at head and tail and outlining the bands; panels diapered with double fillets. Two fastenings, the catches on the lower board; the straps and clasps probably later additions. See Walters Art Gallery, Bookbinding, p. 88, no. 198.
Written in Florence in 1453 by the scribe Phylippus Corbizus who also wrote Munich, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek Clm 10719 {Colophons, v. 5, no. 16,069). The scribe's name and the date appear in the colophon (f 121v) and the Greek letter <I> occurs at the conclusion of all three works. Be- longed to Auguste Chardin of Paris (sale cat., Paris, 1813, no. 1212) from which it was acquired by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 2814, inscripdon on front pastedown). The manuscript passed from the collection of Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini (his inscription in pencil on front pastedown) to H. P. Kraus, who sold it to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) in 1955.
secundo folio: singuli
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 39.
The Medieval Book, p. 35, no. 36, with pi. of f 121 v.
70 MS 40
Marston MS 40 Italy, s. XIir«*
Uguccione Pisano, Derivationes
I. 1. ff. lr-9r [Introduction:] Ut partes quasdam que in summa Vgucionis sub figura dissimili ab alia que incipiunt continentur possit quis reperire facilius breuem banc tabulam deo prestante compegimus que de multis absque graui labore . . . [table:] Abre- uio. as. c. bracos/ Abdo is. e. co [?]/ Abdomen g. hostio/ . . . Xirofagus. fagin [sic]/ Xiromirrum. f. amarus.
Alphabetical table of words discussed in art. 5 within the entries for other words; arranged in three columns, each of which is di- vided into three more columns: the word to be located, followed by a letter of the alphabet (a-g) to indicate where within the entry the reader should look, followed by the main entry. For example, to find abreuio, the reader must locate the entry for bracos. The letters a through g are not, however, listed in the text proper; the reader must calculate the approximate location of the desired word.
2. f. 9r Vgutio dicor sine quo non rite docetur/ Si careat doctor, me quisque cimera nocetur [?]/ . . . Que fuerint primo capitula sintque secundo/ Non est cautela duplex contraria mundo.
Unidentified poem, 10 lines.
3. ff. 9r-28v [Heading, in later hand:] Tabula ordinaria Vgutionis. [list:] Augeo Auctor Autor Anieo [?] Autor Autoritas Autenticus Autoricabilis . . . Corobabel. Zoistero. Zoroastrum. Explitiunt Vgucionis tabule.
Alphabetical table of words included in art. 5; arranged in 7-8 columns per page.
4. f 28v Hec sunt dictiones que non inueniuntur in Vgucione. Tranquillus. a. um. Presertim. Vniuersus. a. um . . . scarifico. as. id est scarfare. cum uentosia. vnde hec scarificatio. [added in anoth- er hand:] Muscatum [followed by an erasure of ca. 5 lines].
Short list of words (arranged in 2 columns) not found in the Deri- vationes; many crossed out with the comment "cancellatum quia reperitur" or "reperitur."
II. 5. ff. 29r-169r [Prologue:] Cum nostri protoplausti suggestiua preuaricatione humanum genus a sue dignitatis culmine quam longe deciderit. ac triplicis incommodi ... A uerbo augmenti
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nostre assertionis auspitium sortiamur. [text:] Augeo. ges. get. auxi. auctum. amplificare augmentum dare. Inde hie auctor id est augmentator et debet scribi cum u. et c ... [text concludes:] Zorobabel apud hebreos . . . iudee gentis extitit. Zoroastrum minimum sydus. f. 169v blank, but with off-set impression of back flyleaf or pastedown now removed
Uguccione Pisano (d. 1210), Denvationes; Marston MS 40 not listed in either Bursill-Hall, Censtis, or A. Marigo, / codici mano-