Marston MS 63     Siena, 1465
Guarino da Verona; Francesco Barbaro, et al.

I. 1. f. 1r  Apretiatum ducatos duos/  Tabula operum que in hoc volumine sunt.
Existimatus per me Ranerium constat codex in totum libras quatuor bononinorum de
argento monete Rauenatis.  [table of contents:]   Guarini veronensis
Ipotesia ad Ieronimum suum de vite Institutione et moribus.  a foglie
2...De laudibus phylosophie In ethicis In Initio studij senis oratio habita 
per bartholomeum senensem phisichum et philosophum Insignem.  a foglie
61.

Appraisal of the codex; table of contents, in red throughout.

2. ff. 1v-3v  Ipotesia/  Guarini ueronensis oratoris et gramatici
nobilissimi ad Ieronimum suum Ipotesia.  De Vite Institutione et obseruantia
bonorum morum.  Tandem tuas accepi litteras dilecte...Mathe
[sic] noua
uirtute puer sic itur ad astra.  Finis.  Ipothesie guarini.

Guarino da Verona, Ipotesia ad Hieronymum (filium) suum, written in 1443;
R. Sabbadini, ed., Epistolario di Guarino Veronese (Miscellanea di Storia
Veneta per cura della R. Diputazione veneta di storia patria, ser. III)
v. 9 (Venice, 1916) pp. 436-43, no. 785.

II. 3. ff. 4r-40r  ffrancisci barbari ueneti de re uxoria libellus
incipit.
[letter:]  Maiores nostri.  Laurenti carissime beniuolentia uel necessitudine
sibi coniunctos in nuptijs donare consueuerunt...[text, f. 5r; no heading:]
Antequam de delectu uxoris et offitio dicere Incipio de ipso coniugio prius
pauca michi dicenda sunt...uel quod ab optima fide ac animo certe tibi
deditissimo proficiscitur.  finis.  finis.

Francesco Barbaro, De re uxoria, with the prefatory letter to Lorenzo
di Giovanni de' Medici (1395-1440);  A. Gnesotto, ed., Atti e memorie della R.
Accademia di scienze, lettere ed arti in Padova, n. s. 32 (1915-16)
pp. 23-100.

4. f. 40r  [Heading, in margin:]  Que in bona requirantur uxore/
Rubrica.
In bona sponsa ista requiruntur ut sit frequens et deuota quo ad
deum.  subdita quo ad mariti obsequium.  affabilis et benigna quo ad
miseros...et plus curat habere liberos dei gracia quam nature. finis.
finis.

Anonymous text, 12 lines, listing the moral qualities of a good wife.

5. ff. 40r-42r  Beatus bernardus ad Raimundum militem de cura et modo
rei familiaris utilius gubernarde [sic].  Incipit.  Gratioso et felici
militi Raimundo de Castro ambrosij Bernardus In senium deductus salutem et
pacem.  Doceri petis a nobis de cura et modo rei familiaris...quibus ademptis
bibat cum eo doloris calicem quem optauit ad quem eam deducant merita
sue dapnabilis [sic] senectutis.  finis.

Ps.-Bernard of Clairvaux, Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris;
PL 182.647-51 (Epistola 456); R. Avesani, Quattro miscellanee medioevali e
umanistiche (Rome, 1967) pp. 42-43.

6. ff. 42r-44v  Antonii aurispe.  inter Scipionem. Romanum Alexandrum.
macedonicum et Anibalem cartaginensem apud Minos controuersia. quis eorum
preferendus sit et laude dignior Incipit.  Cum in rebus bellicis semper.
Ceteris uero animi uirtutibus aliqua etate cuntis gentibus romanos
prestitisse non modo apud latinos set apud grecos...[dialogue begins, f.
42v:]  Alexander.  Me o libice preponi decet melior equidem sum.
Anibal.  Immo uere. me...et tertius si uidetur anibal.  neque Is quidem
spernendus est.  finis.  Laude pacem superis scipio. rex alter. tertius
est libicus. finis.

Lucian, Contentio de presidentia P. Scipionis, Lat. tr. Giovanni
Aurispa; Hain *10275; G. Martelloti, "La 'Collatio inter Scipionem...',"
Classical, Medieval and Renaissance Studies in Honor of B. L.
Ullman, ed.
G. Henderson, Jr. (Rome, 1964) v. 2, p. 146.

7. ff. 44v-56r  Declamande controuersie de nobilitate inter
[Fulgentium
crossed out] Gaium Flaminium et publium cornelium apud Senatum habite de
habenda lucretia.  directe Illustrissimo principi guidantonio Vrbini
Comiti Initium Sequitur.  Apud maiores nostros sepe de nobilitate dubitatum
est.  Multi quidem in felicitate generis non nulli in affluentia...nunc
tandem. expergiscimini et contentionis summam animadvertite.  Contendimus
de nobilitate.  Satis utriusque uita//  finis.

Buonaccorso da Montemagno, Controversia de nobilitate, text incomplete;
G. B. Casotti, ed., Prose e rime de' due Buonaccorsi da Montemagno
(Florence, 1718) pp. 2-94.

8. ff. 56v-60v  De artis oratorie laudibus.  beatus senensis In Initio
legendi.  Studui quantum licuit uenerandi patres maioresque carissimi.
onus hoc si fieri potuisset effugere non ea de causa ut deessem
laborem...Ille se profecisse sciat.  Cui Cicero ualde placebit
[Quintilian, Inst. or., X.1.112].  finis Senis habita 1465.

Unidentified oration delivered before the faculty
at the university of Siena in 1465 (see also arts. 9-10).

9.  ff. 60v-63v  Illustrissimus doctor franciscus pontanus Senis nomine
Vniuersitatis in Initio studij ad dominos Senenses de laudibus legum et
litterarum sequitur.  Video pro uestrorum omnium humanitate potentissimi
domini atque amplissimi uiri senenses...si quoque longius oratio traducta est
quam utere forsam [sic] expectationes paterentur.  uenia donari exposcho.
finis.

Francesco Pontano, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty
at the university of Siena (see also arts. 8, 10).

10. ff. 63v-67r  Magistri Bartholomei senensis de Laudibus phylosophie in
ethicis In Initio studij. sequitur.  Multas et uarias et eximias phylosophie
laudes Insignes patres doctoresque clarissimi Instituissem dicere...quid de
hijs rectius sentire compellar.  doctrina. et auctoritate uestra. 
finis.
f. 67v blank

Bartholomaeus Senensis, unidentified oration delivered before the faculty
at the university of Siena (see also arts. 8-9).

Composed of two closely related parts, with one modern paper flyleaf added
at beginning.
Part I:  ff. 1-3, paper (watermarks: unidentified two-wheeled wagon),
282 x 202 (175 x 100) mm.  Ca. 37 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
I 4 (-1, blank?).  Art. 2 written in a small neat humanistic cursive by a
single scribe, above top line; art. 1 and all the rubrics, foliation, and
marginalia added by scribe who copied and annotated Part II.  Headings,
running titles, punctuation, paragraph marks, marginalia, in red.
Part II:  ff. 4-67 (incorrectly foliated 4-64 by scribe who only numbered
those leaves where a new text begins; a later hand added correct foliation),
paper (watermarks, in gutter:  similar to Briquet Chapeau 3387), written space
163 x 100 mm.  30 long lines; single or double vertical bounding lines on left 
of written space, single on right, all in lead; text rulings in ink.  Remains of 
prickings in upper and lower margins; single prickings in outer margin, 5 mm. 
above top line.  I-VI 10, VII 4.  Horizontal catchwords, preceded by red
paragraph mark, near gutter, verso (Derolez 12.4).  Written in a slanting
humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe, above
top line.  Illuminated initial, f. 4r, 4-line, gold on blue, green, and
red ground with yellow and white filigree.  In lower border wreathed
medallion with ribbons on either side, bearing the arms of Rainerius de
Maschis of Rimini (or, 3 bendlets sable [?], a chief gules with cross argent
[?]); the initials R and A, in gold, on either side of shield.  Headings,
paragraph marks, punctuation and marginalia, in red.
Binding:  Italy, s. xv.  Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps laced
through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside
and nailed.  Natural color endbands, beaded on the spine, were sewn on
tawed skin cores laid in grooves in the boards and nailed.  There is tawed
skin under the endband tie downs.
Covered in green [?] tawed skin with a strip of red leather, s. xix-xx,
added on the spine.  Two truncated diamond catches with the IHS monogram
within a sunburst (as used by St. Bernardinus of Siena) on the lower
board.  The upper board is cut in for clasp straps which are a later
addition.  Both clasps and catches have the word AVE.  The title De re
uxoria written in ink on both head and tail edges.  The boards are badly
worm eaten.  See T. De Marinis, La legatura artistica, v. 1, p. 16, no.
82 and pl. IV for similar catches.  

Part II was written in Siena in 1465 by the jurist and diplomat Rainerius 
de Maschis of Rimini whose coat of arms appears at the foot of f. 1r with 
the inscription:  "Ranerij de maschis militis Atque doctoris ariminensis 
Senarum Capitanei mcccclxv libellus sua manu et arma sunt."  A similar 
inscription and the same arms occur in Oxford, Bod. Lib. Digby 144, a 
manuscript of Livy that was copied  for Rainerius in Siena in 1466, which 
also has foliation, headings, and rubrics in his hand (Colophons, v. 5, 
no. 16449; Paecht and Alexander, v. 2, no. 281, pl. XXV; Watson,
Oxford, 
v. 1, pp. 68-69, v. 2, pl. 649).  A manuscript of Justinus'
Historiae 
(Leyden, Bibl. Univ. Perizonianus Fo. 13), copied for Rainerius in Genoa 
in 1457, contains rubrics by him (see Lieftinck, v. 1, no. 208 and pls. 
409-410); according to A. C. de la Mare, Rainerius apparently copied the second
part (ff. 88-95) of Rimini, Bibl. Gambalunghiana 43 (D.IV.112), a manuscript
of Tacitus' Germania written in Rome in 1476 (Catalogo di manoscritti
filosofici nelle biblioteche italiane [Unione accademica nazionale, 1980]
v. 1, pp. 129-31).  Art. 2 of Part I, copied by another scribe, was apparently
added later to the beginning of the manuscript, as was the table of contents
written on f. 1r by Rainerius.  Rainerius joined Parts I and II and had them
bound together.  Belonged to Federico Patetta (1867-1945),
Professor of the History of Law at the University of Turin at the beginning of 
this century (his note, f. 1r:  "MS no. 70").  Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 
1955 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  obseruare

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 71, no. 63.

Barbara A. Shailor