Marston MS 182          Northern [?] Italy, s. XV med
Cicero, Orator; Orationes

I.  1.  ff. 1r-46v  M. T. C. Orator ad Brutum.  Vtrum difficilius an maius
esset negare tibi sepius idem roganti an efficere id quod rogares diu multumque
Brute dubitam...tibi roganti uoluerim obsequi uerecundia negandi scribendi me
impudentiam suscepisse. [Greek]  ff. 47r-48v ruled, but blank

Cicero, Orator ad M. Brutum; P. Reis, ed., Teubner fasc. 5 (1932) pp.
1-92.  The text is accompanied by a few contemporary marginal
annotations, some trimmed.

II.  2.  ff. 49r-62r  Ciceronis Oratio Gn. pom. contra Mitridatem esse
Imparatorem [sic] eligendum.  Quanquam mihi semper frequens conspectus
uester multo iocundissimus.  hic autem locus ad agendum amplissimus ad
dicendum ornatissimus est uisus...atque sociorum meis omnibus comodis et
rationibus preferre oportere.  [Greek]

Cicero, De imperio Cn. Pompeii; P. Reis, ed., Teubner v. 6, 1 (1931)
pp. 3-34.  Some contemporary marginalia, including rhetorical key words.

3.  ff. 62v-68v   [Heading in another hand in upper margin:]  Pro Q. Ligario.
[text:]  [N]ouum crimen .G. Caesar et ante hunc diem inauditum propinquus
meus ad te .Q. Tubero detulit...Tantum te ipsum admoneo si illi absenti
salutem dederis presentibus his omnibus te daturum.  finis.

Cicero, Pro Q. Ligario; A. Klotz, ed., Teubner v. 8 (1918) pp. 84-100.
Contemporary corrections to text throughout.

4.  ff. 69r-89r  [E]tsi uereor iudices ne turpe sit pro fortissimo uiro
dicere incipientem timere minimeque deceat cum T. Annius ipse magis de rei
publicae salute...in iudicibus legendis optimum et sapientissimum quenque
legit.  finis pro T. Annio Milone.

Cicero, Pro T. Annio Milone; Klotz, op. cit., pp. 13-66.  Contemporary
marginalia, rhetorical in nature.

5.  ff. 89v-96v  [C]um in omnibus causis grauioribus .G. Cesar initio dicendi
commoueri soleam uehementius quam uideretur uel usus uel etas mea
postulare...quorum alterum optare eorum crudelitatis est alterum conseruare
clementie.

Cicero, Pro rege Deiotaro; Klotz, op. cit., pp. 101-19.

6.  ff. 96v-102v  [S]i quid est in me ingenij Iudices quod sentio quam sit
exiguum aut siqua exercitatio dicendi in qua me non
mediocriter esse uersatum...a uobis spero esse in bonam partem accepta ab
eo qui iudicium exercet certe scio.  Explicit pro .A. Licinio Archia.

Cicero, Pro Licinio Archia; P. Reis, ed., Teubner v. 6, 2 (1932) pp.
165-80.  Contemporary marginalia, neatly keyed to the text with gloss marks,
of an explanatory nature (e.g., f. 97r, gloss on "humanitatem" is "humanitas est
cultus hominis cum ratione factus").

7.  ff. 102v-103r  [S]i patres conscripti pro nostris immortalibus in me
fratremque que [sic] meum liberosque...qua nihil potest esse iocundius
quidemque nosmet ipsos nobis reddidistis.// ff. 103v-114v ruled, but blank

Cicero, Oratio cum senatui gratias egit, incomplete; T. Maslowski, ed.,
Teubner fasc. 21 (1981) p. 3 (ll. 1-11).

Composed of two distinct parts; f. i (paper) + i (contemporary parchment:
palimpsest of unidentified accounts?) + 114.
Part I:  ff. 1-48.  Paper (watermarks:  unidentified hunting horn, in
gutter), 210 x 145 (151 x 86) mm.  28 or 29 long lines.  Single vertical
bounding lines (Derolez 13.11); ruled in hard point.  I-IV 12.  Horizontal
catchwords with symmetrical flourishes just below written space near inner
vertical bounding line (Derolez 12.2).  Written in humanistic cursive by a
single scribe, above top line.  Plain initials in red or blue; heading on f.
1r in red majuscules.
Part II:  ff. 49-114.  Paper (watermarks, in gutter:  similar in design to
Briquet Fruit 7380-81), 210 x 145 (153 x 93) mm.  29 or 30 long lines.
Single vertical bounding lines ruled in lead, with rulings for text in
ink (Derolez 13.11).  Prickings in upper and lower margin and a single
pricking in outer margin, 5 mm. above top line.  V-IX 12,
X 6.  Horizontal catchwords along lower edge near gutter (mostly trimmed).
Written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line.  Heading and
plain initial, in red, on f. 49r only.
Binding:  Italy, s. xix.  Brick red goatskin, blind-tooled.  Bound for the
Guarnieri-Balleani library (Iesi) in the same bindery as MS 450 and Marston
MSS 72, 86, 181 and probably by the same binder. Title in ink
on the tail edge, mostly illegible.

Written possibly in Northern Italy in the middle of the 15th century.
Part II was copied by the humanist Stefano Guarnieri who never completed
copying the text (for manuscripts either copied, annotated or owned by him,
see catalogue entries for Beinecke MS 450, Index V of this volume under
Guarnieri-Balleani Library, as well as C. Annibaldi, L'Agricola e la Germania
di Cornelio Tacito [Iesi, 1907] pp. 4-10).  Contemporary note on f. ii
verso:  "De perfecto genere dicendi."  From the Guarnieri-Balleani Library at
Iesi (see binding).  Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1959 by Thomas E.
Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  [f. 2:]  et clari fuerunt
[f. 50:]  et subsidia

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 84, no. 182.

Barbara A. Shailor