Marston MS 46     Northern Italy, 1426
Eberhardus Bethuniensis, Graecismus

ff. 1r-121v  [Preface:]  Quoniam ingnorantie [sic] nubilo
turpiter excecati quidam imperiti fatuitatem exprimentes asininam 
chimerinas ymaginantes statuas...de nominibus exortis a grecis 
secundum alphabetum.  [text, f. 1v:]  Est proprie meta trans grece 
formatio plasma/ Indeque transformatio dicatur metaplasmus/...
Verbaque cum motu sibi iungunt diptota tum tu/ Explicit ebrardi 
grecismus nomine christi/ Qui dedit alpha et o sit laus gloria 
christo/ Defficiunt partes nature significati/ Defficiunt etiam duo 
dum documenta repugnant/ Desunt per sillabe desunt dum deficit usus./
Deo Gratias Amen.  [colophon:]  Grecismi dei explicit nomine liber/
Grates reddo nobis pie christe glorioseque magister/ Nox antonium
scriptus fuit liber iste/ Ocurente domini milessimo quadrigentessimoque/
Anno hijs addas vigesimo sexto.  Folio 37v blank, no loss of text; ff.
122r-123r ruled, but blank; f. 123v see provenance below

	J. Wrobel, ed., Eberhardi Bethuniensis Graecismus (Breslau, 
1887) pp. 1-249; text missing (xxv.56-91) between ff. 105-106:  
"...sine dat tibi ualde // Plus prior et peior...").  Some glosses 
that reflect philosophical grammar (e.g., f. 1r, note on capam 
cathegoriam:  "Adiectiuum secunde impositionis non debet addi 
subiecto prime impositionis"); marginal and interlinear notes 
sporadically throughout; text written on every other line to 
facilitate glossing.

	Paper (watermarks:  similar to Briquet Lettre G 8199, Briquet 
Lettre B 7980, Briquet Fleur 6393, Briquet Joug 7872, 7876), 
ff. iii (paper) + 123 + iii (paper), 290 x 207 (219 x 142) mm.  
39 long lines or lines of verse; single vertical bounding lines, 
full length, in lead; text ruled in brown ink. Some portions of 
text ruled in two columns, though written in either long lines or 
verse.  Remains of prickings in upper and lower margins.
	I-III 10, IV 8, V-VII 10, VIII 12, IX-X 10, XI 8 (-6, loss 
of text), XII-XIII 8.  Horizontal catchwords, often elaborately 
decorated, in center of lower margin, verso.
	Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top 
line. 
	Plain initials, paragraph marks, initial strokes, punctuation,
in red. Guide letters for rubricator.
	Ink has corroded some leaves; many leaves repaired in margins.
	Binding:  Italy, s. xix.  Half bound in vellum with paper 
spattered with black on the sides.  Gold-tooled spine with black 
label:  "Trattato de' Grecismi in Versi Latini," and "1471" stamped 
along lower edge.

Written in Northern Italy to judge from the script and watermarks; 
signed and dated 1426 by the scribe Antonius (colophon above).  Three 
contemporary inscriptions on f. 123v indicate the manuscript was owned 
by Jacobus de Vocatris (or Advocatris) who studied at the school of 
Magister Jacobus de Griffis:  "Iste grecismus est mei Iacobi de 
advocatris qui suus vnus capister et nescio quid faciam;" "Iste 
grecismus est mei iacobi de uocatris qui sum vnus capister et nescio
quid faciam et ego pergo ad scolas magistri domini iacobi de griffis 
et cet. ego nonquam dici plus verborum;" "Meum nomen non pono quia me
laudare non volo/ Si vultis sire [sic] iacobus de uocatris fuit 
ille/ [followed by two crudely sketched animals on next line] Quod 
tibi [n followed by erasure] faceres alijs fecise cauebis/ Vulnera 
ne fatias que potes ipse pati."  Unidentified round white paper label 
on spine with "6063" written in ink and "III L" added in another hand.  
In pencil on back pastedown:  "Imp. Zemp [?] No 21 del 3-3-9330."  
Purchased in 1956 from Bernard M. Rosenthal (Cat. 1, no. 34) by 
Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Ast apposioposis

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 69, no. 46.

Barbara A. Shailor