Marston MS 98     Northern Italy, 1473
Prudentius; Fortunatus; Sedulius, etc.

1. f. 1r-v  [Per] Quinquennia iam decem ni fallor fuimus/ Septimus insuper
annum cardo rotat/ Dum fruimur sole uolubili.  Instat terminus/...Carmen
martyribus deuoueat laudet apostolos./ [colophon:] Hec dum scribo uel eloquor:
uinclis nec utinam corporis emicem:  Liber/ Quo tullerit lingua sono
mobilis ultimo.

Prudentius, Praefatio; M. P. Cunningham, ed., CC ser. lat. 126 (1966)
pp. 1-2.

2. ff. 1v-19v  [Preface:]  Senex fidelis prima credendi uia est/
Abraam beati seminis serus pater/ Adiecta cuius nomen anxit [sic]
syllaba/...herede digno patris imolebit domum./ [text, f. 2v:]  Christe 
graues hominum semper myserate labores/ Qui patria uirtute cluis propriaque sed 
una/...Ornamenta anime quibus oblectata decoro/ Eternum solio diues 
sapientia regnet.  [colophon:]  Finis prudentii 9#o kalendas maias.  1473.

Prudentius, Psychomachia; Cunningham, op. cit., pp. 149-81.

3. f. 20r  Vnum crede deum qui cuncta potestque creatque/ Quemque deus
genuit maria de uirgine nullo/ Semine conceptum nam semen spiritus
ipse/...Hec si credideris simul egeris:  error euntem/ Impediet nullus
propereque frueris olympo/  Explicit symbolus philelphi poete.

Final verses from Francesco Filelfo, Satyrarum hecatostichon
septima decas, hecatosticha quinta; the satires were published in Milan in
1476 by Christoph Valdarfer (Hain 12917) and thereafter.  Bertalot,
Initia,
no. 6466, citing this manuscript in F. Roediger, Catalogue des livres 
manuscrits et imprimes composant la bibliotheque de M. Horace de
Landau
(Florence, 1885-90) v. 2, 104; A. Calderini, "I codici milanesi delle opere di
Francesco Filelfo,"  Archivio storico lombardo 42 (1915) citing Milan,
Biblioteca Ambrosiana J. 86 sup. on p. 341.

4. ff. 20v-21v  Inclita que radiis illustras sydera uirgo/
Cuncta tuis ornasque polos maiore sereno/
Luce replens superi stellatum cardinis axem/...
Erige: et a tantis seruet tua dextra periclis/
Me tantis neu linque malis miserere tuorum./
Explicit supplicatio ad uirginem Mariam.

Franciscus de Fiano, Deprecacio pulcherrima ad gloriosissimam
matrem; Kristeller, Iter Italicum, v. 3, p. 44; RH, v. 1, no. 
8820; Walther, Initia, no. 9225

5. ff. 21v-23r  [Heading:]  Lactantius ad pasca [sic] felicitatem d.
[text:]  Salue festa dies toto uenerabilis euo/
Qua deus infernum uicit et astra tenet/ 
Tempora florigero rutilant distincta sereno/ 
Et maiore poli lumine porpa [sic] patet/...
Quo prius eua nocens inferret et hoc modo reddit/
Ecclesie pastus ubere lacte sinu./  Finis/
[colophon:]  Quisquis aues lector scriptoris noscere nomen/
Cisterciensis monachus ipse fuit.

Fortunatus, selected verses from Carmina III.9.1 (Ad Felicem
episcopum de pascha) in the following order: 39-40, 1-38, 41-100.
F. Leo, ed., MGH AA 4,1 (1881) pp. 59-62.

6. ff. 23r-58v  [Preface:]  Paschales quicumque dapes conuiua requiris/
Dignatus nostris accubitare thoris/...Rubra quod appositum testa
ministrat olus./  [heading, f. 23v:]  Argumentum/  [text:]  Cum sua gentiles
studeant figmenta poete/ Grandisonis pompare modis tragicoque uoatu
[sic]/...Facta redemptoris nec totus cingere mundus/ Sufficeret densos
per tanta uolumina libros.

Sedulius, Carmen paschale; J. Huemer, ed., CSEL 10 (1885) pp. 14-146;
rubrics and divisions for books entered sporadically.

7. ff. 58v-61r  Cantemus socii domino cantemus honorem/
Dulcis amor christi personet ore pio/...
Gloria magna patri semper tibi gloria nate/
Cum sancto spiritu gloria magna patri./  Amen.

Sedulius, Hymnus I;  Huemer, op. cit., pp. 155-62.

8. f. 61r-v  [Poem, 8-lines:]  Ista tibi antoni rocalis [sic] stirpis
alumne/ Perscripsit currente manu et inculte benignus/...
et per sacratam que cingit tempora cleram/ Carmine diuino uolitabis in
ora tonantis.
[Poem, 30-lines:]  Continet ista gradus benedicti carta beati/
Quis humilis monacus discat et antonius/...
Antoni gradibus his pergas ducque benignum/
Scandere quos possis annuat omnipotens.
f. 62 = stub; ff. 63r-64v blank, except for notes on provenance and pen trials

Two unidentified poems; Walther, Initia, nos. 9607 and 3264, citing this
manuscript.

Paper (coarse; watermarks, in gutter:  similar to Briquet Lettres
Assemblees 9607; similar to Piccard Blume II.900, but with prominent
stitching holes), ff. i (paper) + 61 (contemporary foliation, in ink, in 
upper right corner skips from 4 to 6; correct modern foliation, lower right, 
in pencil) + i (paper), 186 x 137 (146 x 90) mm.  Ca. 27 lines of verse.  
Frame-ruled in hard point.
I-III 12, IV 10, V 12, VI 6 (-4, numbered 62, blank).  Horizontal catchwords, with
dots and flourishes, to right of center in lower margin, verso
(Derolez 12.2).
Written in humanistic bookhand with gothic features by a single scribe,
above top line.
Some headings, in red, for art. 6 only.
Binding:  Italy [?], s. xix.  Bound in tan sheepskin, over wooden boards.
Bluish green edges.  "Prudentii" scratched on leather of upper board.

Written in Northern Italy in 1473 (colophon, art. 2) by a Cistercian monk
(colophon, art. 5), perhaps by the Antonius mentioned in art. 8;
contemporary ownership inscription of the Cistercian abbey of Chiaravalle in
Milan on f. 64v:  "Iste liber est Monasterii Careuallis [sic] 
mediolani."  The same inscription (effaced, but visible under ultra-violet
light) appears in Marston MS 233.  Miscellaneous notes and pen trials (including 
"Ermitage du gaudiceur"), s. xvi, on f. 64v.  Inscription, f. 61v:  "Gio[vanni]
Batt[ist]a Montalti," with date "1809" on ff. 62v and 63r in 
the same hand as the inscription.  Belonged to Gustavo Cammillo Galletti 
of Florence (1805-68; bookstamp on f. 1r).  Collection of Baron Horace de 
Landau (1824-1903; bookplate stamped with numbers "319" and "329" on front 
pastedown; see his Catalogue des livres manuscrits et imprimes composant la
bibliotheque de M. Horace de Landau [Florence, 1890] v. 2, 104); the
collection was maintained by his niece Madame Finaly, of Florence (d. 1938).
Purchased in 1956 from L. C. Witten by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  frangit

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, pp. 75-76, no. 98.

Barbara A. Shailor