Marston MS 61     Northeastern Italy, s. XV 3/4
Leonardo Bruni, Epistolae familiares, etc.

We thank J. Hankins for his assistance with the text of this manuscript.

1. ff. 1r-59r Epistolae familiares of Leonardo Bruni, including the first
two books, part of the third, and selected letters from the remaining.  F.
Luiso, Studi su L'Epistolario di Leonardo Bruni (= Istituto Storico
Italiano per il Medio Evo, Studi storici fasc. 122-124 [Rome, 1980]), for
first reference cited below; L. Mehus, ed., Leonardi Bruni Arretini
Epistolarum Libri VIII (Florence, 1741), for references in parentheses.

Book 1:  I. 3 (I.1); I.4 (I.2); letter of Coluccio Salutati to Innocent
VIII, beginning:  Nescio cui magis...(F. Novati, ed., Epistolario di
Coluccio Salutati [Rome, 1904] vol. 4, pp. 105-09, ep. XIV.xv); I.6
(I.3); I.5 (I.4); I.7 (I.5); I.8 (I.6); I.9 (I.7); I.1 (I.8); I.13 (I.9);
I.14 (I.10); I.15 (I.11); I.16 (I.12); I.17 (I.13); I.18 (I.14); I.19
(I.15).  Book 2:  II.23 (II.1); II.1 (II.2); II.2 (II.3); II.3 (II.4);
II.4 (II.5); II.7 (II.6); [II.8 omitted]; II.9 (II.8); II.10 (II.[9]);
II.12 (II.10); II.13 (II.11); II.14 (II.12); [II.11 omitted]; II.20
(II.14); II.21 (II.15); II.22 (II.16); II.24 (II.17); II.25 (II.18); II.26
(II.19); II.27 (II.20); II.28 (II.21); II.29 (II.22).  Book 3:
III.1 (III.1); III.2 (III.2); III.3 (III.3); III.5 (III.4); after this
letter (f. 40v), catchwords "Quod ad me" as though beginning letter
III.7 (III.5); f. 41r-v blank; f. 42r III.2 (III.2), repeated from 39v; f.
42r III.5 (III.4), repeated from f. 40v; f. 42r-v III.11 (III.8); ff. 42v-43r
VI.16 (VI.11); f. 43r IV.27 (IV.21); f. 43r-v III.22 (III.15); ff. 43v-44r
III.25 (III.16); ff. 44r-45r IV.8 (IV.8); f. 45r III.13 (IV.11), with the
explicit written as perpendicular catchwords at the bottom right-hand
corner of page;  ff. 45v-46r IV.14 (IV.15); f. 46r-v VIII.3 (X.10); ff.
46v-48v Leonardo Bruni, Preface to his version of Aristotle's
Politics,
[heading:]  Leonardo Aretini prefatio ad dominum Eugenium papam quartum.
[text:] Libros Politicorum multis a me vigiliis...tue beatitudinis prolixitate
nimia detineam.  [= Epistola super translatione Politicorum
Aristotelis, in
Baron, pp. 70-73]; f. 48v VIII.5 (X.11); ff. 48v-49r IX.16 (X.16); f. 49r
(X.17); f. 49v VI.11 (X.18); ff. 49v-50v IX.17 (X.20); ff. 50v-52r VII.9
(X.21); f. 51r-v IX.19 (X.22); ff. 51v-52r VII.11 (X.23); f. 52r-v I.21
(X.6); ff. 52v-53r III.17 (X.2); f. 53r II.15 (X.1); ff. 53v-55r I.20
(X.19); f. 55r-v VII.14 (VII.7); f. 55v-56r VII.5 (VII.5), fragmentary at
the end "... ut Mediolanum urbs tam populosissima iam dudum fuerit
atque sit, et cetera" [= Mehus, op.cit., II, pp. 90-91, line 5]; f. 56r-v
VII.10 (X.9); ff. 56v-59r VIII.4 (VIII.1), with the postscript of the
Ravenna manuscript, ed. Luiso, op.cit., p. 139, note 12; f. 59r V.3
(V.6).

2. ff. 59v-60v Cicero, Epistolae; extracts.

3. ff. 61r-62r [Heading:]  De ortu Regis francorum sic legitur in panteon
particula uigesima tertia capitulo primo.  [text:]  Tempore igitur quo
eneas post [s deleted] troiae destructionem in italiam uenit priamus
iunior nepos magni priami...dicti qui ultra danubium fertur in Europam. f.
62v blank

4. 63r-78r [Heading:]  Sexti Ruffi viri consularis ad Valentianum
[sic]
rerum gestarum populi romani.  [text:]  Breuem fieri clemetia [sic]
tua precepit:  parebo libens preceptis...tibi palma pacis accedat
Gloriosissime principe Valentine Auguste.  [Greek].  f. 78v ruled, but
blank

J. W. Eadie, ed., The Breviarium of Festus:  A Critical Edition with
Historical Commentary, University of London Classical Studies V (1967)
text:  pp. 1-69.

Paper (several unidentified watermarks in gutter), ff. i (paper) + 78
+ i (paper), 217 x 148 (ff. 1-40:  152 x 92; ff. 42-60:  150 x 96; ff.
61-78:  131 x 80) mm.  Page format varies:  usually single vertical
bounding lines; single upper and/or lower horizontal bounding lines.
Ruled in lead.  Prickings in all margins except inner.
I-III 10, IV 12, V 8, VI 12, VII 8 (-7, 8).  Vertical catchwords along
inner bounding line, verso.
Written by two scribes in humanistic cursive script, above top line:
Scribe 1:  ff. 1-60; Scribe 2:  ff. 61-78.
Spaces left for headings and decorative initials remain unfilled.
Binding:  Italy, s. xix.  Quarter bound in vellum with semi-limp paper
sides.  Traces of title and designs [from palimpsest?], in ink, on spine.

Written in Northeastern Italy in the third quarter of the 15th century;
some contemporary and slightly later annotations by scribe and other
hands.  Early provenance otherwise unknown.  Notes, s. xix, in ink in
margins of manuscript and on front flyleaf; these notes by the same 19th
century collector as those in Marston MS 60.  The collector designated
Marston MS 60 as "Vol.I" and Marston MS 61 as "Vol. II" since each
contained letters not found in the other.  There is, however, no certain
evidence to indicate that the two volumes were originally intended to
complement one another; except for the same style of 19th-century binding,
the physical formats of the two codices are completely different.
Purchased from Libreria Mediolanum of Milan (Dr. E. Pozzi) in 1955 by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 776), who sold it in the same year to Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate).

secundo folio:  ipsa Loci

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 71, no. 61.

Barbara A. Shailor