Marston MS 97     Italy, s. XV 2
Paulus Venetus, Logica parva, etc.

1. ff. 1r-44r  [Prologue:]  Conspiciens in circuitu librorum
magnitudinem studentium constituentem in animo nec non aliorum nimiam
breuitatem quibus fere nulla est annessa [sic] doctrina...ideo tractatus
primus sic diffiniens incipit a priori.  [text:]  Incipit primo de
terminis.  Terminus est signum orationis constitutiuum.  ut pars
propinqua eiusdem sicut li homo et li animal...sed partim secundum
intencionem aliorum ut Iuuenes incipientes adiscere facilius
introducantur.

Paulus Venetus (Nicoletti d'Udine, d. 1429), Logica parva, with diagrams.
Many manuscripts and early printed editions; see C. H. Lohr, "A Note on
Manuscripts of Paulus Venetus, Logica," Manuscripta 17 (1973) pp. 35-36,
reprinted in Bulletin de philosophie medievale 15 (1973) pp. 145-46 (Marston
MS 97 not listed).  Some contemporary corrections and marginal
annotations.

2. ff. 44r-45v  Incipiunt objectiones contra supradicta videlicet [?].
Vt summularum noticia ad memoriam reducatur ponende sunt quedam
obiectiones contra quasdam regulas...sedillius nullus homo curit et
cetera.  [I]n materia figurarum//  ff. 46r-54v ruled, but blank

Paulus Pergulensis (d. 1451), Obiectiones contra primum tractatum, 
ending imperfectly; this treatise occurs immediately following Paulus
Venetus' Logica in early printed editions, also without indication of
the author (e. g., C. Valdarfer: Milan, 1484).

3. ff. 55r-59r  [Title, in upper margin:]  Tractatus de sensu composito
et diuso [sic] secundum paulum pergulensem et cetera.  [prologue:] 
Cum sepe
numero cogitarem non mediocrem iuuenibus fructum affere si compositionis
et diuisionis materiam clarissime intelligerent...primum dissolutas
videbis.  [text:]  Septem modis commititur fallacia composicionis et
diuisionis de quibus per ordinem videamus...non tamen sentirent quid 
dicatur in hac materia perfecte et cetera finis amen.  Explicit tractatus de
sensu composito et diuiso recolectuus [sic] in breui per famosissimum artium
doctorem magistrum paulum pergulensem et cetera.  finis.

Paulus Pergulensis, Tractatus de sensu composito et diviso; published
in early printed editions under the title Tractatus de modis composito et
diviso.  M. A. Brown, ed., Paul of Pergula:  Logica and Tractatus de
sensu composito et diviso (St. Bonaventure, 1961) pp. 149-58 (Marston MS 97
not cited in list of manuscripts on pp. x-xi).

4. ff. 59v-60r  [1] Nota quod in quolibet sillogismo sunt due 
propositiones...; [2] Et si obiciatur quod sunt 4 or termini quia est ibi
est...; [9] Si autem est sillogismus negatiuus requiritur quod habet
principium...; [10] Nota quod hunc verbum est quando ponitur inter duos
nominatiuos sub tempore presenti...factus senex erat puer.

10 short paragraphs on logic, followed by diagram on f. 60r.

5. f. 60v  Cului che bate non conta le bote/
Si como fa cului che le rezeue/...
Inpero chi percote tute [?] e non li mete cura/
Spesse volte le sole prestare nixuna.

Unidentified 14-line poem, in Italian; also in Vatican City,
Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana, Chigi M VII 154, f. 57r and Florence,
Biblioteca Riccardiana 1156, f. 15.

Paper (watermarks, in gutter and obscured by parchment binding stays:
unidentified mountain and animal [?]), ff. 60, 209 x 154 (135 x 98) mm.
2 columns, ca. 29-36 lines.  Single vertical and horizontal bounding lines,
full across.  Ruled in lead; remains of prickings in upper, lower and
outer margins.
I 12, (1 + 2 = front pastedown), II 10 (-9, no loss of text), III 12,
IV-V 10, VI 10 (10 = back pastedown).  Vertical catchwords along inner
bounding line or near gutter, verso.
Written by several scribes in a humanistic bookhand that exhibits various
gothic and cursive features, above top line.
Red or blue initials, poor quality, 7- to 3-lines, with penwork designs in
red, blue and/or black.  Headings, paragraph marks and line divisions between
segments of text, in red.
Binding:  Italy, s. xvi?  Stays made from parchment manuscripts adhered 
inside of quires and outside of first and last ones, the pastedowns included. 
Original, wound sewing on three tawed skin, kermes pink, slit straps laced
into paste boards.  The endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn on
tawed skin cores laced into the boards.
Covered on greenish tan tawed skin (sheep?) with corner tongues and the
remains of two tawed skin ties.  Remains of title scratched on upper cover
"Logica Paul*."

Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century before 1497 when
Brother Iohannes Andreas added a note on f. 60v that suggests the codex
was used in a religious house:  "mihi placet.  1497 a di 
10 Februaro morite [sic] mastro ant[oni]o da la ****** mia/ mia barba
Carissima et ego Fr. Ioannes andreas uolo Singulis annis tali die facere 
unam pietantiam toti Conuentui."  Contemporary inscription written on a
scroll drawn and shaded in red on front pastedown:  "Cane che lecha cenere 
non le fidare farina;"  A. Arthaber, Dizionario comparato di proverbi
e modi proverbiali in sette lingue (Milan, 1981) p. 108, no. 205.
Various early pentrials and accounts on f. 60r and back pastedown.  Early
shelf-mark, in ink, in upper left corner of upper cover:  "163" and title
(in same hand?) on front pastedown:  "Pauli Veneti Logica."  Modern
notations in pencil on front pastedown "L. 13. 12272,"  "A 5" and "U/1/C;"
other pencil notes erased.  Purchased from E. P. Goldschmidt of London in 1955
by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 802), who sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate).

secundo folio:  [propositio]nes non obstante

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 75, no. 97.

Barbara A. Shailor