Marston MS 147     Northeastern Italy, s. XV 2/4
Eutropius, Breviarium, etc.

1. ff. 1r-59v  Liber Eutropii de Regibus Romanorum et de origine imperii
feliciter incipit.  [P]rimus qui in italia ut quibusdam placet regnauit 
Ianus.  deinde Saturnus iouem filium...qui iam ultra x. annos regnauerat
interfecit.  vniuersamque Italiam ad rei publicae iura perduxit.  Finit
Eutropii Historia laus deo.  f. 60r-v blank

Eutropius, Breviarium, H. Droysen, ed., MGH AA 2 (1879) pp. 8-18,
and C. Santini. ed., Teubner (1979) pp. 3-71, with the insertions and addition
of the final six books by Paul the Deacon, A. Crivellucci, ed., Pauli
Diaconi Historia Romana (Rome, 1914) pp. 5-239.  Proper names and brief notes
in outer and inner margins throughout; text not divided into numbered books
(except for "Liber secundus" in margin, f. 6r).

2. ff. 61r-65r  Franciscus Patritius Achilli petrucio. S. P. Dicit.
Quamquam tibi plurimum cum adessem coram gratulatus fuerim.  adiecerimque.
nonnulla.  que ad hunc tuum precellentissimum...uolumus et optamus.  Vale et
communes amicos nostros omni studio tueare.  Iterum uale. ex corsinio [?]
Idibus Ianuarijs.

Francesco Patrizi of Siena (1412-94), Epistula Achilli
Petrucio re regendo magistratu; the same letter is listed as anonymous by
Kristeller, Iter italicum, v. 1, p. 333, citing Milan, Biblioteca
Ambrosiana L. 69 sup.; v. 2, p. 383, citing Vatican, Biblioteca Apostolica
Vaticana Vat. lat. 7179.  See also L. F. Smith, "A Notice on the Epigrammata
of Francesco Patrizi, Bishop of Gaeta," Studies in the Renaissance
15 (1968) pp. 92-143.

3. f. 65r  Quintilianus institutionum oratoriarum libro. primo.  Plura de
officijs docentium locutus.  discipulos in unum interim moneo. ut preceptores
suos...accipientisque concordia.  ff. 65v-70v blank

Extract from Quintilian, Institutio oratoria 2.9.1.

Paper (watermarks:  two different unidentified ladders, the one on ff. 1-60,
the other on ff. 61-70), ff. i (fragment of 12th-century missal, containing the
masses of Sebastian, 20 January; Agnes, 21 January; Vincent of Saragossa, 22
January; the Conversion of Paul, 25 January) + 70 + i (fragment from the
same 12th-century missal, containing masses of the Annunciation, 25 March;
Tiburtius and Valerianus, 14 April; George, 23 April; and the Three Youths
in the Furnace, Sidrach, Misach and Abdenago), 286 x 214 (190 x
110) mm.  Ca. 30-34 long lines (art. 1), 33-34 long lines (art. 2).  The
leaves have been folded in quarters lengthwise to delineate the written
space.
I-VII 10.  Horizontal catchwords centered in middle of lower margin,
verso (Derolez 12.1).
Written by a single scribe in a sloping humanistic bookhand.
Spaces for decorative initials in art. 1 are unfilled; remains of guide
letters.  Headings and first word(s) in text divisions in epigraphic
majuscules.
Binding:  Italy, s. xix.  Yellow marbled paper case with title written in
ink on narrow paper label on spine:  "Liber Eutropii de Regibus Rom. et de
Orig. Imperii."

Written in Northeastern Italy, perhaps as early as the second quarter of the
15th century according to A. C. de la Mare; early provenance unknown.
Inscription, s. xviii [?], in upper margin of front flyleaf:  "Decano
Sebastiano Zucchetti."  Acquired by James P. R. Lyell in 1936 (1871-1943;
bookplate and note on front pastedown, "E.V.V. 31/7/36," and 
again on a description, typed, in red and black,
pasted inside back cover.  For further information on his
manuscripts see Lyell Cat., pp. xv-xxix.  Bought from the Lyell estate by
Bernard Quaritch in 1951 and sold in 1952 (Cat. 699, no. 60, description from
this catalogue pasted inside front cover).  Unidentified modern notes, all in
pencil, on front pastedown:  "250" and "No. 55" each within a circle, "M"
in a circle with "4" below; on back pastedown, "21553" in pencil.
Purchased from H. P. Kraus (notes on back pastedown) in 1957 by Thomas E.
Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [tem]poribus homerus

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 81, no. 147.

Barbara A. Shailor