Marston MS 37     Bologna [?], s. XIV 2
Valerius Maximus, with commentary of Dionysius de Burgo Sancti Sepulchri, etc.

1.  ff. 1r-3v  Maximi ualerij uerborum suauitas me inducit et 
quorundam dilectorum fratrum caritas me compellit.  ut operi prefati 
autoris iungam ego frater Giunta de sancto gemiano [?] ordinis 
herimitarum sancti augustini Inuentarium siue tabulam...Abstinencia 
li#o. iiij#o. c. iij#o. 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 
suggestions regarding the possible identity of the indexer).

2.  ff. 3v-4r  Valerii Maximi factorum et dictorum memorabilium 
romanorum liber. primus 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
numerals 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 Iohanni 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 Sepulchri;
D. Schullian, op. cit., 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. 5v-141r  Valerij maximj factorum 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.  
Irregularities 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 commentary. Single vertical bounding lines, full length.  
Ruled in crayon.  Remains of prickings in upper and lower margins.
	I 6 (1, 2 = front pastedown and flyleaf), II 6, III-IV 8, V 6, 
VI-X 8, XI 6, XII 8, XIII 6, XIV-XVIII 8, XIX-XX 4, XXI 4 (-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 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 illuminated 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 X in 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 Universal 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.

Barbara A. Shailor