Marston MS 198          Northeastern Italy, ca. 1430-40
Jerome, Dialogus contra Pelagianos, etc.

1.  ff. 1r-26r  Incipit prefacio sancti Ieronimi in dialogon contra
pelagianos hereticos sub nominibus attici et Crithobole.  Vbi commendatur
gracia dei.  [prologue:]  Scripta iam ad thesiphontem [sic] epistola.
in qua ad interrogata respondi....  [text, f. 1v:]  Incipit dialogus
contra eos qui dicebant homini sufficere liberum arbitrium ad
salutem.  Atticus.  dic michi critobole, verum est quod a te scriptum
audio...vt cuius in ceteris auctoritate ducimini eciam in hac parte
errorem sequamini.

Jerome, Dialogus contra Pelagianos, Books I-III; PL 23.495-590.

2.  ff. 26r-47r  Incipit liber primus controuersiarum ruffini aduersus
Ieronimum.  Relegi al. perlegi scripta aproniane fili karissime que
ab amico et fratre bono de oriente ad uirum nobilissimum pammachium
missa transtulisti ad me...necesse est ecclesie catholice sentenciam.
siue aduersus tuos datam.

Rufinus Tyrannius, Apologia contra Hieronymum; M. Simonetti, ed.,
CC ser. lat. 20 (1961) pp. 37-123.

3.  ff. 47r-63r  Incipit liber primus ad pammachium et marcellam pro
se contra accusatores defensio.  Ex vestris et multorum litteris didici
obici mihi in scola tyrannica lingua...quam hostem latentem sub amici
nomine sustinere.

Jerome, Apologia contra Rufinum, Books I-II; P. Lardet, ed.,
CC ser. lat. 79 (1982) pp. 1-72.  Marston MS 198 listed on pp. 16* (s. xiv),
137*, 141*.

4.  ff. 63r-72r  Incipit liber xi questionum [?]icon ad
algaudsiam
[sic].  De hac questione in commentarijs mathei plenius diximus.  Vnde
apparet que hec interrogas...postea mendacium  id est antichristum suscepturi
sint.

Jerome, Ad Algasium liber quaestionum undecim (Letter 121);
I. Hilberg, ed., CSEL 56 (1918) pp. 4-55.  A 15th-century hand has added
in the margin at the beginning of the text:  "Proemium huius libri
sequitur post xx folia nam ibi replicatus est hic liber non tamen absolutus
[art. 8 below]."  The original scribe had written in the margin
the first questio omitted here (incipit:  Cur iohannes discipulos...), but 
appearing on f. 84v.

5.  ff. 72r-75r  Disputacio de ratione anime.  Cum apud vos celestis
eloquencia purissimi fontis et litterarum omnium fluenta 
redundent...Tunc deinde illi idest appollonius. tertulianus. pompeius.
arnobius. lactancius. atque appollinaris. qui unam quidem ex nullis
subsiscentibus a deo factam esse dicunt...[f. 72v:] Ieronimus.  Beatus
itaque Ieronimus tam sanctum victorinum martirem...Augustini
testimonium.  Sanctus quoque augustinus hanc opinionem in octo ad modum
voluminibus verbis tueri cernitur...[followed by a series of alternating
extracts from the works of Jerome and Augustine, labelled with the
rubrics Augustinus Ieronimo and Ieronimus Augustino]...vbertate 
rigati redundetis fluentis sanctorum.

Anonymous, Disputatio de ratione anime; most of the text (ff. 73r-75r)
consists of the extracts in a "dialogue" format between Augustine
(e.g., selections from Epistola CXXXI ad Hieronymum; PL 22.1124-38)
and Jerome (Epistola CXXVI ad Marcellinum et Anapsychiam; PL 22.1085-86).
The text is published in PL 30.261-71 (Epistola XXXVIII. Dialogus sub 
nomine Hieronymi et Augustini).

6.  ff. 75r-76v  Planctus seu lamentum origenis translatum a beato Ieronimo
presbitero.  In afflictione et dolore animi incipio loqui ad eos qui
cogunt me extra asserentem ordinem...Quia tibi est gloria cum patre et
spiritu sancto in secula seculorum.

Origen [?], translated into Latin by Jerome.

7.  ff. 76v-84r  Epistola Ieronimi ad hebidiam de xii questionibus.
Ignota uultu.  fidei mihi ardore notissima es.  Et de extremis gallie finibus
in bethleemitico iure [?] latitantem...que nostra uel virtute uel uicio
et accenduntur et extinguuntur in nobis.

Jerome, Ad Hebydiam de quaestionibus duodecim (Letter 120);
I Hilberg, ed., CSEL 55 (1912) pp. 470-515.

8.  ff. 84r-91v  Capitula subscriptionis epistole. i.  Cur iohannes
mittit discipulos suos ad dominum....  Epistola vndecim questionum
ad galasiam.  [prologue:]  Filius meus apodemius qui interpretationem
nominis sui longa ad nos nauigatione signauit...[text, f. 84v:]  Prima
questio.  Cur iohannes discipulos mittit ad dominum ut interrogarent
eum.  tu es qui uenturus...et prouincie sue familiarius apostolus vtitur.
e quibus exempli gracia pauca ponenda sunt//

Jerome, Ad Algasium liber questionum undecim (Letter 121), ending
abruptly in the tenth questio; I. Hilberg, ed., CSEL 56 (1918) pp. 4-42.
See also art. 4 above.

9.  ff. 91v-101v  Incipit Epistola Ieronimi ad demetriadem uirgine.
Hanc epistolam notat beda non esse beati Ieronimi.  Sed iuliani episcopi
de campania qui fuit discipulus pelagii heretici.  Et ipse hereticus
multa in hac contra graciam dei disseruit.  Si summo ingenio parique fretus
scientia officium scribendi facile me inplere posse crederem, tamen
tam arduum...nullum tempus longum uideri debet, quo gloria eternitatis
adquiritur.

Epistola ad Demetriadem de virginitate et vitae perfectione,
variously attributed to Pelagius, Julian d'Eclane, Jerome (PL 30.15-45)
or Augustine (PL 33.1099-1120).

10.  ff. 101v-109v  [E]pitaphium sancte paule a beato Ieronimo
editum.
Si cuncta mei corporis membra verterentur in linguas et omnes artus humana
uoce resonarent nichil dignum sancte ac venerabilis paule virtutibus
dicerem...Omne tempus uite impleuit annos. lvi. mensibus. viii. diebus.
xxi.

Jerome, Epistola CVIII ad Eustochium virginem, on St. Paula;
PL 22.878-906.

11.  f. 109v  Lectio ad Augustinum contra hereticos.  Multi vno claudicant 
pede et nec fractis quidem ceruicibus inclinantur...et ibi seruitute pereat
sempiterna.  f. 110r ruled, but blank; for notes on f. 110v see provenance

Jerome, Epistola CXLII ad Augustinum; PL 22.1180-81.

Paper (watermarks:  similar to Briquet Monts 11895 and 11702; unadorned
anvil similar to Harlfinger Enclume 5; unidentified letter (D?) similar
in general design to Harlfinger Lettre 14), ff. i (paper) + 110 + (paper),
292 x 215 (198 x 140) mm.  2 columns, 44 lines.  Single vertical
bounding lines and sometimes a single upper horizontal bounding line,
full length and full width; ruled in lead or crayon.  Prickings in upper,
lower, and outer margins for bounding lines only.
I-XI 10.  Scribe 1:  horizontal catchwords in lower right of inner vertical
bounding line, verso (Derolez 12.2).  Scribe 2:  horizontal catchwords
in center of lower margin surrounded by four symmetrical clusters of
three dots, verso (Derolez 12.1).  Quire and leaf signatures (e.g.,
b1, b2, b3, b4, b5, x) in lower right corner.
Written by two scribes.  Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-76v) in a fere-humanistic
hand with features of round humanistic;  Scribe 2 (ff. 76v-109v) in
a more angular fere-humanistic hand.
One 4-line illuminated initial, f. 1r, shaded pink with red and green
acanthus leaves on dark blue with white filigree against a gold ground
edged thickly in black.  In the upper left corner a red, blue and gold
flower with spiralling acanthus in the upper and inner margins,
forming a partial border, green, blue, red, brown, the spirals filled 
with gold or blue with white filigree.  Large gold dots with four black 
spikes.  Numerous pen and ink initials, 5- to 1-line, alternating in red 
and blue with purple or red penwork.  Headings in red.  Instructions to 
the rubricator at lower edge, f. 1r.
Binding:  place uncertain, s. xix-xx.  Rigid vellum case with the title 
in ink on the spine:  "Dialogi Pelagii et Attici."

Written in Northeastern Italy (perhaps Padua?); the painted and
the penwork decoration of the manuscript are strikingly similar
to those of Beinecke MS 343 dated 1437 and seem to have been executed in the
same workshop (see vol. II, pp. 176-77, pl. 33).  Bears evidence
of having been read by Lorenzo Valla (1407-57), whose annotations in 
humanistic bookhand appear throughout the manuscript.  Two contemporary 
ownership inscriptions (s. xv 2) on f. 110v ("Anthonj liso prouincie [?] 
de mallorca" and immediately below "Bernardus andor secretarius domine 
Regine)" may suggest a link with the Aragonese court at Naples.  
Lorenzo Valla entered the service of Alfonso d'Aragona in 1435 and in 
1445 he wrote the Historiarum Ferdinandi regis Aragoniae; by 1448 he 
returned to Rome.  Purchased in 1958 from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. 
Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  dicere. cum

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, pp. 86-87, no. 198.

Barbara A. Shailor