Marston MS 113     Northeastern Italy, s. XVI 1/4
Battista Guarino, Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium

ff. 1r-9v  Baptista Guarinus Affini suo carissimo Ioanni Bertucio sal. plu.
d.  Nuper cum apud te coenaremus ac uarijs de rebus (ut sit) colloqueremur,
aetatis nostrae Poetarum orta mentione cum ego Ianum Pannonium...conferri
aequarique possit.  Vale Ferrariae Nonis Aprilibus Anno Christi M#o cccc#o
Lxvij.

Battista Guarino (1434-1513), Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium, dated
1467 in Ferrara.

Parchment, ff. iii (paper) + 9 (modern pagination, partially trimmed,
upper right: 1-18; modern foliation, lower right) + iii (paper), 183 x 120
(125 x 80) mm.  21 long lines.  Single vertical bounding lines (Derolez
13.11, with f. 1r Derolez 13.12).
A single gathering of 8 leaves, with one leaf tipped in at end.
Written in a stylized humanistic cursive script much influenced by
printing, below top line; heading in humanistic bookhand.
Plain 1-line initial, f. 1r, in blue.  Heading in red.
Binding:  Paris, s. xix.  Light brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title
("B. Gua./ Episto.") and doublures.  Edges gilt.  Bound by Chambolle-Duru
(Paris, 1863-1915).

Written in the first quarter of the 16th century, perhaps in Northeastern
Italy to judge from the script; early provenance unknown.  Unidentified
notations: "860" in pencil, f. 9v; "LNG [or 9?]" and "8242" on final
flyleaf, recto.  Purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, Inc., in 1956 by Thomas
E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Disciplinarum

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 77, no. 113.

Barbara A. Shailor