Marston MS 262     Italy, s. XV 2
Gaspare da Verona, Regulae de constructione


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ff. 1r-52v  Actiuum uerbum est quod in /o/ desinit et format 
passiuum in or vt lego legor amo amor licet non [est deleted] 
sit in usu dor ut plurimum autem uerba actiua....quod nomen in 
quacumque declinatione et genere feminino tam arborem quam fructum 
significat.  Reperitur etiam ficus in declinatione secunda et genere 
masculino pro fructu./ Finis deo gratias.  [colophon:]  Laus tibi sit 
christe quoniam liber explicit iste/ Explicit hic totum pro pena da 
mihi potum/...Pro tanto pretio numquam plus scribere uolo/ Explicit 
expliceat quis uult plus scribere scribat. ff. 53r-60v blank

	Printed in Milan by Phillipus de Lavagna ca. 1476 and thereafter 
(GKW, v. 9, no. 10557).  Names of Latin authors cited (Nonius 
Marcellus, Statius, et al.) added in margins.  Marston MS 262 not 
listed in Bursill-Hall, Census.

	Paper (watermarks, buried in gutter:  similar in design to 
Briquet Fleur 6647-49, Briquet Croix grecque 5576 and Piccard 
Kreuz II.607, Piccard Einhorn III.1648), ff. 60 (stubs of parchment 
front and rear flyleaves?), 214 x 143 (138 x 84) mm.  Double
vertical bounding lines, full length (Derolez 13.31); lines impressed 
on a ruling board.
	I-VI 10.  Catchwords perpendicular to text between vertical 
rulings (Derolez 12.5); those on f. 50v erased, then written 
horizontally below written space.  Remains of quire and leaf 
signatures (e.g., f 1, f 2, etc.) in lower right corner, recto.
	Written in humanistic cursive script with gothic features by 
a single scribe, above top line.
	Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout.  Guide letters 
for initials in margin.
	Binding:  Italy, s. xv.  Parchment stays adhered inside each 
quire.  Original wound sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps 
laced through tunnels in the edge to channels on the outside of 
beech boards and nailed.  A natural color endband, caught up on 
the spine, is sewn on a tawed skin core which is laid in grooves 
on the outside of the boards and pegged.  Tied down through brown 
leather.
	Quarter bound in mottled brown tawed skin cut out around 
the head and tail supports. Two fastenings, the leaf-shaped catches 
(wanting) on the lower board, the upper one cut in for the red
fabric straps.  The letter R written in ink on head edge.  
Binding illustrated in The Medieval Book, p. 65 (no. 67). 

Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century; 
contemporary inscription, mostly illegible, beginning "ho...," 
on lower board. Remains of oval book label, white with blue edge: 
"109 [?]" in red ink. Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal in 1959
by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  Compero as ui

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 95, no. 262.

Barbara A. Shailor