Marston MS 214     France, s. XIV/XV
Postilla in Apocalypsim

1. ff. 1r-4r  Omnes qui. Pie volunt viuere...[2 Tim. 3.12].  Hunc prologum
premittit gilbertus libro Apocalypsis in quo prologo tria principaliter
tangit.  videlicet huius libri:  Rem subiectiuam veri tenoris/ Causam
motiuam cure scriptoris/...Quantum ad primum dicit gilbertus omnes qui pie
volunt viuere in christo id est cultum christi tenere est...patebunt suis
locis.  Explicit prologus.

Commentary on Gilbert of Porreta's Prologue to the Apocalypse; cf.
Stegmueller, no. 839. See H. C. van Elswijk, Gilbert Porreta: Sa vie, son
oeuvre, sa pensee (Louvain, 1966) pp. 58-59.

2. ff. 4r-120v  [A]pocalypsis yhesu christi et cet. [Apoc. 1.1].  Iste liber 
diuiditur in tres partes principales in prima ponitur prefatio attrahens
clericorum.  in secunda efficiuntur homines studiosi et attenti...deo
gratia dominj nostrj yhesu christi cum omnibus vobis Amen. Amen.  Et hec est
terminatio libri totalis deo gratias.

Commentary on the Apocalypsis, accompanied by marginal notes,   
some extensive.

Parchment (end pieces), ff. 120, 241 x 183 (195 x 118) mm.  49 long lines.
Frame-ruled in ink; some leaves completely ruled in lead.
I-II 8, III 16, IV-XIV 8.  Horizontal catchwords enclosed by rectangles,
center of lower margin on verso.
Written in a small gothic cursive, above top line.
One illuminated initial, 3-line, blue with white highlights on gold
rectangular ground edged in black; gold leaves and black inkspray extend
into upper and inner margins to form modest border.  Plain initials, red
or blue, 3- to 2-line.  A few paragraph marks in red or blue.
Binding:  France [?] s. xix-xx.  Quarter bound in brown blind-tooled calf 
over wooden boards by the same binder as Marston MSS 119, 216 and 236.

Written in France at the end of the 14th or beginning of the 15th century; 
formerly bound with Marston MS 216 (see catalogue entry below).  Purchased
in 1958 from Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 2089), who
sold it the same year to Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Ratione

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, pp. 88-89, no. 214.

Barbara A. Shailor