Marston MS 86     France, s. XII 3/4
Victorinus, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione, etc.

1. ff. 1r-47v Omnis quicumque incipit alicuius generis. orationem hec tria
in principiis adibere debet.  ut auditores faciat attentos.  beniuolos. 
dociles...que demonstratura partes habet .ii. laudem et uituperationem. 
Vtrumque tamen ex atributis persone tractatur.

Victorius, Commentarius in Ciceronis De inventione (Explanationes
in Ciceronis Rhetoricam); C. Halm, ed., Rhetores latini minores 
(Leipzig, 1863) pp. 155-304; text accompanied by a few contemporary and
later marginal notes.

2. ff. 47v-49v Cum sint .ix. attributa persone.  quibus appropriatur
cuiusque persona.  nomen nominis certis suis designatis et sanguinem et
hominem...Non ex ipsis rebus.  Sed has res ipsas quadam gestione
proueniunt.  Explicit.  f. 49v notes (see provenance)

Anonymous commentary on Cicero, De inventione I. 24-28; C. Halm,
op. cit., pp. 305-10.

	Parchment (warped), ff. i (paper) + 49 + i (paper), 195 x 135 (170 x
103) mm.  42 long lines.  Single vertical and widely spaced double
horizontal bounding lines.  Ruled in hard point on the hair side before
folding, or in lead.  Prominent prickings in outer margin.
	I 8, II 8 (-8, loss of text), III-IV 8, V 8 (-5, loss of text), VI 12
(-12).  Quires signed with Roman numerals, center of lower margin, recto. 
Quire and leaf signatures added, s. xv (e.g., c 1, c 2, etc.)
	Written by multiple scribes in cramped early gothic bookhand, above 
top line.  Marginalia by several contemporary and later hands.
	Seven illuminated initials are later addition (Italy, s. xv 2):  4- to
3-line, gold on blue, red and green ground with white filigree.  Black
inkspray with gold leaves and balls extending into margins; f. 1r with
blue and red flowers.  Guide letters for decorator in margins.
	Binding:  Italy.  s. xix.  Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled.  Bound in
the same bindery for the Guarnieri-Balleani family (Iesi) as MS 450 and
Marston MSS 72, 181, 182, and 212.

Written in France in the third quarter of the 12th century; contemporary
accounts on f. 49v refer to one Jordanus de Walchelina, and to Rotbertus,
Liulfus and Leofric.  Partially effaced inscription on f. 49v indicates
that Stefano Guarnieri (d. 1495) bought the manuscript in Rome in 1465
(see U. Nicolini, "Stefano Guarnieri da Osimo cancielliere a Perugia dal
1466 al 1488," L'umanesimo umbro:  atti del XI convegno di studi
umbri-Gubiio 22-23 settembre 1974 [Perugia, 1977] pp. 307-23). 
Guarnieri's annotations in humanistic script appear sporadically in the
text; it is possible that the illuminated initals, s. xv#2, were added for
him.  For other Beinecke manuscripts either copied, annotated or owned by
Guarnieri, see catalogue entries for MS 450, Index V of this volume under
Guarnieri-Balleani Library, as well as C. Annibaldi, L'Agricola e la
Germania di Cornelio Tacito (Iesi, 1907) pp. 4-10.  From the
Guarnieri-Balleani Libary at Iesi (characteristic binding and remains of
paper labels on spine).  Purchased from Lathrop Harper in 1953 by Thomas
E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [maxi]marum ciuitatum

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 74, no. 86.

Barbara A. Shailor