Marston MS 227     Germany, s. XV 4/4
Giovanni Sulpizio, De versuum scansione, etc.

1. f. 1r blank; f. 1v  Carmen Sulpicij ad lectores./  Sunt quorum in manibus
nostri monumenta laboris/ Vos precor:  haec iusta pendere lance 
Iuuet/...Cerbeream rabiem sentiet esse mihi./  [second poem:]  Ad Aulum./
Quid Iuuat heroo claudum miscere brocheum/ Vltima communis syllaba semper
erit/...Temporis immiscent non ratione pedes.

Two poems, 8- and 6-line.

2. ff. 2r-48r  [Contents:]  Sulpitij Verulani de versuum scansione...De
pedibus et diuersis generibus carminum precepta.  Deque illorum connexionibus
obseruationes.  [dedication:]  Ad cyprianum Omagium fforliniensis Episcopi
fratrem.  lege foeliciter./  Castalios.  latices et amena uireta sororum/ Si
peragrare cupis...cypriane comam./  [text:]  Carmen Heroicum exametrum duobus
legittime [sic] conficitur pedibus Dactylo et spondeo Dactylus ex tribus
sillabis...[f. 48r:]  prodesse studui ad musicum studium excitasse:  librum
hoc carmine finiam.  Me duce musarum choreas ingressa Iuuentus/...Haec per
sulpitium plectra lyramque gero./ ffinis.  ff. 48v-58v blank

Many manuscripts and early printed editions.  Here the text concludes
with verses in the section Peroratio; a few variant readings entered into
margin by a contemporary hand.

Paper (watermarks, in gutter: unidentified bull's head; human head perhaps
similar in general design to Briquet Tete humaine 15687-88), ff. i (paper)
+ 58 + i (paper), 210 x 146 (150 x 95) mm.  24 long lines.  Single vertical
bounding lines ruled in lead or ink.
I 10 (originally 12?), II-V 12.  Horizontal  catchwords right of center
along lower edge, verso.  Remains of quire and leaf signatures (e.g., b 1,
b 2, etc.) lower right corner, recto.
Written in hybrida script by a single scribe.
Plain initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate blue and red; one initial on f. 2r
with crude penwork detail in interior.  Headings, paragraph marks, initial
strokes and some underlining in red.  Guide letters for decorator.
Binding:  Germany, s. xix.  Quarter bound in green diced calf with green
paper sides.

Written in Germany in the fourth quarter of the 15th century to judge from
the script and watermarks.  Belonged to the bookdealer Jacques Rosenthal
of Munich (white oval label with scalloped edge:  "71198/ III O [?]" and
his pencil notes on front and rear pastedown).  Purchased from B. M.
Rosenthal in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Sulpitij

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 90, no. 227.

Barbara A. Shailor