Marston MS 111          Florence, ca. 1460s [?]
Grammatica latina

ff. 1r-76r  Litera est uox que scribi potest indiuidua vel nota elementi
et ueluti imago quedam uocis litera...Noceo. Valeo. Placeo. Careo. Pateo.
Liceo. Oleo. Taceo. Pareo. Doleo. etc.  [Greek].  f. 76v blank, except for
note (see provenance).

Anonymous Latin grammar; Bursill-Hall, Census, lists twelve other copies of
this text; Marston MS 111 not recorded.  The scribe has often added Italian
equivalents or examples in the margins (e.g., f. 53v:  Buono, Tristo,
Grande, Picholo, Destro, Sinistro, corresponding to a list of irregular
Latin comparative and superlative forms of adjectives).

Parchment, ff. ii (modern parchment bifolium, i = front pastedown) +
76 + ii (modern parchment bifolium, ii = back pastedown), 165 x 115
(105 x 58) mm.  21 long lines.  Double vertical and horizontal bounding
lines, full across and full length (Derolez 13.36); ruled in hard point
on hair side.  Prickings in upper, lower and outer margins (Derolez 18.1).
I-VI 10, VII 6.  Catchwords perpendicular to text between inner vertical
bounding lines (Derolez 12.5).
Written by a single scribe in careful humanistic cursive, above
top line; A. C. de la Mare has identified this writer as the "Scribe of the
former Yates Thompson Petrarch" (see de la Mare, New Research, v. 1,
pp. 553-54).
Folio 1r illuminated by Francesco d'Antonio del Chierico who was active
in Florence from the mid-15th century to 1484 (see Garzelli, Miniatura
fiorentina, p. 99 and passim).  Full border, partially rubbed, of
white vine-stem ornament curling around a thin gold
bar against blue, green and pink ground.  In outer border, a medallion,
framed in gold, with profile of a young man against blue ground.  In lower
border a wreathed medallion, framed by two circles of gold with partially
erased arms.  Medallion supported by six green and red winged putti.  The
entire border inhabited by a large number of putti playing among the
vine stem, various birds and three does.  Illuminated initial, 3-line,
joined to the border, gold against blue, green and pink ground with white
vine-stem ornament inhabited by a seated putto.  One small illuminated
initial, f. 1v, 2-line, gold against blue and pink ground with white
filigree (partly rubbed).  Plain initials alternate in red and blue.
Guide letters for initials.
Binding:  Italy [?], s. xix.  Semi-limp vellum case.

Written in Florence probably in the 1460s, perhaps for the young man whose
portrait and arms (effaced) appear on f. 1r.  Inscription, s. xvii, on
f. 76r:  "Ad istantia di Antonio Cialderotti da s[an]to g[?]no"; inscriptions
(date?) on f. 76v:  "Camillo An[t?]onini [?] dase [?]," and "di camillo
di piero Gra [?]."  Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1956 by Thomas E.
Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  et hec aduena

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 77, no. 111.

Barbara A. Shailor