Marston MS 132     Italy, s. XV 2
Pius II, Bulla Ezechielis, It. tr.

ff. 1r-6v  Pio vescouo seruo de li serui dedio.  Ad tucti et ad
ciaschuno...et apostolica benedictione.  Sententia e del grande propheta
ecechiele.  Selu speculatore.  cio pastore non annuntiara...in secula
seculorum.  Dato a roma apresso a sancto pietro nel anno de la
incarnatione de signore mille.  cccc#o. Lxiij. ad xi Kalende de Nouembre
cioe a xxij. di doctobra uel sexto anno del nostro pontificato.  Laus Deo
Amen.  f. 7r-v ruled, but blank

Papal bull dated 22 October 1463 in unidentified It. tr., announcing
the adherence of Pope Pius II to the Hungarian-Venetian league.  Opera
omnia (Basel, 1551) Epistle 412 on pp. 914-23 for the Latin text.

Paper (watermarks:  unidentified horn in gutter), ff. i (paper) + 7 + i
(paper), 187 x 130 (175 x 114) mm.  Ca. 40 long lines.  Single vertical
and horizontal bounding lines.  Ruled in hard point or lead.
Collation impossible due to repairs.  Folio 4-5 are conjugate leaves.
Written in upright mercantesca bookhand (no loops).
One initial, 4-line, in black ink on f. 1r.
Binding:  Place uncertain, s. xix.  Rigid vellum case.

Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century, in 1463 or
thereafter, given the date of the bull.  Provenance unknown.  Traces of
notes, in pencil but erased or covered by bookplate, on front pastedown. 
Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal (Cat. 1, no. 81) in 1957 by Thomas E.
Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Ecco

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 79, no. 132.

Barbara A. Shailor