Marston MS 202     Italy, s. XV 1
Jacobus Palladinus, Belial, etc.


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1. ff. 1r-47v  [Prologue:]  Uniuersis christi fidelibus atque ortodose
Ecclesie fidey cultoribus hoc breue conpennium [sic] inspecturis 
Iacobus de Teramo archidiaconus auersanus et canonicus...liberati sumus
per infinita secula seculorum amen.  [text:]  Postquam per scientie 
lignum duplicem mortem habuimus danpnationem...Nam omne datum optimum 
et omne donum perfectum desursum est.  Si quid uero indignum a me.  etc.  
[colophon:]  Explicit Liber Bellial scriptus manu dompni Iacobi grassi 
de Camplo.  Deo gratias Amen.

Jacobus Palladinus de Teramo, Belial (also known as Consolatio
peccatorum seu Processus Luciferi contra Iesum Christum); printed
by Johann Schuessler (Augsburg, 1472) and thereafter.  Bloomfield,  
Virtues and Vices, pp. 338-39 (Marston MS 202 not listed).  The 
scribe and at least one other contemporary hand have added cues for 
the reader in outer margin, including pointing hands; one annotator 
has also corrected the text in a darker shade of ink.

2. f. 48r  Quicumque vult saluus esse ante omnia opus est vt teneat
catolicam fidem...saluus esse non poterit.  f. 48v blank

Athanasian Creed, added in a different hand.

	Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 48 + ii (paper), 312 x 232 
(204 x 142) mm. 55 long lines.  Frame-ruled in crayon; prickings 
in upper, lower, and outer margins.
	I-IV 10, V  8 (structure uncertain, 8 = original flyleaf?).  
Catchwords, some surrounded by designs and small circles in red, 
centered below written space, verso.
	Written in a cramped gothic cursive by a single scribe, above 
top line; art. 2 added in an awkwardly formed gothic bookhand.
	Divided initial, 15-line, in red in f. 1r.  Plain initials, 
10- to 4-line, initial strokes, and paragraph marks (in outer margin) 
in red throughout.
	Binding:  s. xix.  Dark brown, hard-grained goatskin, blind- 
and gold-tooled.  Gilt edges.  On spine:  "Liber Bellial" and "Codex 
Ms. Saec. XV."

Written in Italy in the first half of the 15th century by the scribe
Jacobus Grassi de Camplo [a village 5 miles N. of Teramo] who signed 
his name in the colophon (art. 1); early provenance otherwise unknown.  
According to a note in library files, the manuscript was purchased 
from B. M. Rosenthal via L. C. Witten (inv. no. 2048) in 1958 by 
Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  et prophetis

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 87, no. 202.

Barbara A. Shailor