Marston MS 40     Italy, s. XIII med
Uguccione Pisano, Derivationes

I. 1. ff. 1r-9r  [Introduction:]  Ut partes quasdam que in summa 
Vgucionis sub figura dissimili ab alia que incipiunt continentur 
possit quis reperire facilius breuem hanc tabulam deo prestante 
compegimus que de multis absque graui labore...[table:]  Abreuio. 
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 divided 
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 
another hand:] Muscatum [followed by an erasure of ca. 5 lines].

Short list of words (arranged in 2 columns) not found in the
Derivationes; 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 
nostre assertionis auspitium sortiamur.  [text:]  Augeo. ges. get. 
auxi. auctum. amplificare augmentum dare.  Inde hic 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), Derivationes;  
Marston MS 40 not listed in either Bursill-Hall, Census, or A. 
Marigo, I codici manoscritti delle "Derivationes" di Uguccione 
Pisano (Rome, 1936).  Prologue (including additional passage found
in this manuscript), incipit and explicit published by Marigo, 
op. cit., pp. xiii-xvi.

	Parchment, ff. i (modern paper) + 169 + i (modern paper), 
380 x 240 mm.
	Part I:  written space 294 x 179 mm., ruled in crayon or lead 
in tabular format in three columns; prickings in lower margins.  
I-II 12, III 4 (structure uncertain: two single [?] leaves stitched 
in followed by bifolium).  Catchword (f. 12v) in decorative frame 
right of center, lower margin.  Written by a single scribe in round 
gothic bookhand, below top line.  Divided initial, blue, 8-line, 
with intricate red pen flourishes extending down inner margin, 
f. 1r.  Plain red initials, 2-line, to mark new letter of the 
alphabet; first letter of each word in table stroked with red; 
more important words preceded by paragraph mark. 
	Part II:  written space 274 x 162 mm.  2 columns, 70 lines.  
Single vertical bounding lines with additional ruling between 
columns, single lower horizontal ruling extends to outer edge.  
Prickings in upper, lower, and outer margins; additional 
prickings in outer margin for lower horizontal bounding line.  
I-XIV 10 (+ 1 leaf added at end).  Remains of catchwords along 
lower edge, right of center, verso.  Written in small gothic 
bookhand, above top line.  Many sections traced over in darker 
ink. Blue or red initials (some divided), 20- to 7-line, with pen 
flourishes in red and/or blue, for prologue (art. 5) and each 
letter of the alphabet. On ff. 29r, 43v, 60r: a single dragon-
like grotesque, in red and blue, extends up or down the margin 
(for similar but more elaborate grotesques see Avril and Gousset,
pl. XLII, no. 88, f. 117).  Initials, 2-line, alternate red and 
blue with plain pen flourishing in opposite color.  Text has 
faded and flaked throughout. 
	Binding:  Italy, s. xiv?  Original sewing on four tawed skin, 
slit straps laid in channels on outside of beech boards and nailed.  
A beaded, natural color endband.
	Covered in kermes pink tawed skin with an X within a 
rectangular frame drawn on it.  Traces of five round bosses on each 
side and four truncated diamond-shaped catches on the lower board; 
the upper board cut in for the straps.  Rebacked.

Part II written in Italy in the middle of the 13th century; Part I
added in the 14th century when the two parts may have been bound 
together; early provenance unknown.  Unidentified shelf-mark in 
ink on spine ("44/16"), repeated in pencil inside front cover.  
Note, s. xviii, about the author and the text, pasted to f. 1v. 
"11303", in pencil, on f. 1v. Purchased in 1954 from C. A. 
Stonehill (inv. no. 3193) by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  	[tabula, f. 2r:]  Austroaphricus [?]
				[text, f. 30r:]  [fa]milia enim

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 68, no. 40.

Barbara A. Shailor