Marston MS 263     Italy, 1493
Jerome, Epistolae, etc., in It. tr.

1. ff. 1r-2v ruled, but blank; f. 3r-v  Inchomincia la tauola delle pistole di
Messere Santo Girolamo traslatate di latino In uolghare pel uenerabile
huomo Ser niccholaio di berto martini da santo gimigniano Notaio
fiorentino. .j.  Prima epistola a Daliodero del dispregio del mondo e commenda
la uita solitaria...Lxxvij.  A Lucino Ispgniuolo della uita Romiticha E de 
suoi libri molte chose//

Table of contents for art. 2, ending imperfectly.

2. ff. 4r-316v  Inchominciano le pistole del glorioso messere Sancto Girolamo
dottore della sancta chiese...la uita solitaria.  Con quanto amore io 
mi sforcai che tu e io insieme dimorassimo nell'ermo.  Sallo il petto della tua 
carita...[f. 312v:]  Ma ggia l'anghoscia della epistola debbe auiere fine.  Amen. 
[colophon:]  Finite di scriuere l'epistole familiare del glorioso messer santo 
Ierolimo questo di xxij di maggio 1493.  per me don benedetto de serragli
indegnamente priore del monasterio di san saluij nell'eta d'anni. 58. preghando
ciascuno che lle leggie prieghi per me/ e trouando qualche ischorrezione di
penna lo inputi e ssi dalla chopia e ssi alla mia pocha sufficienzia.  Deo 
Gracias.  Iesu christe fili dei viui miserere mei o gloriosa mater dei memento
mei.

Jerome, Epistolae, etc., translated into Italian by Ser Nicolaus Berti
Martini de Gentiluzis de Sanctogeminiano, a notary in Florence (ca. 1388-1468).
Other manuscripts containing his translation are Florence, 
Biblioteca Riccardiana 1681; Paris, Bibliotheque Nationale ital. 83.
For his scribal career see de la Mare, New Research, pp. 516-18
(this manuscript cited on p. 518).
In the following concordance of the contents of this article we list the 
works as they appear in the manuscript, citing in square brackets the
appropriate references to CSEL or to PL (the former number also used by B. 
Lambert, Bibliotheca Hieronymiana Manuscripta [Steenbruge, 1969-72] 7 vols.,
with Marston MS 263 cited in v. 3B, p. 765, no. 968; this work hereafter 
cited as BHM).  For each text listed below we compared the Italian translation
with the Latin original; unless otherwise noted, all texts are complete.
f. 4r [14]; f. 6v [125]; f. 11r [PL 30.15-45 (16-46):  BHM 301]; f. 24v [22];
f. 41v [148]; f. 48v [PL 30.61-75 (63-77):  BHM 305]; f. 57v [127]; f. 61r
[PL 30.239-42 (247-49):  BHM 332]; f. 62v [PL 30.145-47 (150-52):  BHM 311];
f. 64r [68]; f. 65r [129]; f. 68v [123, sections 1-11 only]; f. 72r [122];
f. 76r [25]; f. 76r [34]; f. 77v [38]; f. 78v [23]; f. 79r [24]; f. 80r [59];
f. 81v [40]; f. 82r [41]; f. 82v [42]; f. 83v [27]; f. 84r [44]; f. 84r [PL
30.278-82 (287-90):  BHM 340]; f. 86r [61]; f. 87v [?]; f. 88v [PL 30.116-22
(121-24):  BHM 308]; f. 91v [39]; f. 95v [77]; f. 99v [78]; f. 111r [107];
f. 115v [74]; f. 117r [72]; f. 118v [6]; f. 119r [8]; f. 119r [2]; f. 119v
[10]; f. 120r [7]; f. 121r [140, section 16 and following only]; f. 122v [1];
f. 124r [81]; f. 124v [108]; f. 137r [PL 30.282-88 (291-97):  BHM 341];
f. 140v [126]; f. 141v [3]; f. 142v [PL 20.1037-41*:  BHM 358]; f. 144v [118];
f. 147v [41, 619-60; PL 40.591-610]; f. 156v [PL 30.122-42 (126-47):  BHM 309];
f. 168r [17]; f. 169r [146]; f. 170r [PL 30.294-95 (304-06):  BHM 347; section
1 only); f. 170r [PL 30.292-93 (301-02):  BHM 343]; f. 170v [15]; f. 171v [16];
f. 172r [18B]; f. 173v [18A]; f. 178v [21]; f. 186r [9]; f. 186v [79]; f. 191r
[117]; f. 194v [66]; f. 198v [PL 16.367 ff., sections 1-38 only: BHM 320];
f. 200v [12]; f. 201r [11]; f. 201v [13]; f. 201v [48, for another version of
this text see also f. 219v below]; f. 202v [97]; f. 203v [45]; f. 204v [62];
f. 205r [PL 30.288-92 (297-301):  BHM 342]; f. 207r [73]; f. 209v [58];
f. 212v [53]; f. 217r [47]; f. 217v [71]; f. 219v [48, for another version of
this text see also f. 201v above]; f. 220r [50]; f. 222r [26]; f. 222v [28];
f. 223r [32]; f. 223v [75]; f. 225r [PL 30.182-88 (188-94):  BHM 318 and 155];
f. 228r [36]; f. 232r [PL 23.1173-85:  BHM 206]; f. 237r [PL 23.1185-96:  BHM
206]; f. 243r [84]; f. 247r [147]; f. 251r [119]; f. 257v [54]; f. 262v [60];
f. 268r [64]; f. 274v [65]; f. 282r [69]; f. 287v [52]; f. 293r [19];
f. 293v [PL 23.397-456 (415-78):  BHM 255, text appears to be an abbridgement of
Parts I and II only]; f. 303r [102, sections 1-2 only]; f. 303v [103]; f. 304r
[105]; f. 305r [134]; f. 305v [141]; f. 306r [142]; f. 306r [143]; f. 306v
[PL 39.2181-83; PL 30.176:  BHM 316]; f. 308r [55]; f. 310r [145]; 
f. 310v [70].

3. ff. 312v-316v  Epistola dello Egregio dottore santo Aughustino Mandata a
Cirillo secondo Vescouo di gierusaleme....della Vita e morte del prestante
dottore beato Girolamo.  Stimi tu beatissimo padre Cyrillo che
le laulde de girolamo gia presbitero...ne fraudate le sue uoglie
per infinita secula seculorum Amen.  f. 317r-v ruled, but blank

Ps.-Augustine, Epistula ad Cyrillum, concerning the death of St. Jerome;
PL 22.281-89 and BHM 903C.

Paper (watermarks:  similar to Piccard Schere III.710, Briquet Chapeau
3387; unidentified eagle), ff. i (contemporary parchment) + 317 (contemporary
foliation vi-cccxviii, one leaf from index missing), 332 x 230 (224 x 149) mm.
2 columns, 40 lines.  Single vertical bounding lines (Derolez 13.11);
ruled in pale brown ink or crayon.  Single pricking in upper margin, 8 mm.
left of inner bounding line and single pricking in outer margin, 5 mm.
below bottom line.
I 4 (-4), II-XX 10, XXI 6, XXII-XXXII 10, XXXIII 8.  Horizontal catchwords
in center of lower margin.  Leaf signatures (e. g., a i, a ii, a iii, etc.)
added later in lower margin, directly beneath text column, recto, for second
and third gatherings only.
Written by a single scribe in a small upright gothic script with both
notarial and humanistic influence, above top line.
One illuminated initial, f. 4r, 6-line, gold, filled with red and blue
penwork in geometric patterns.  The penwork extends the whole length of the
text column to form a partial border, terminating in the upper and lower
margins in a scroll of blue penwork with small flowers, heart-shaped leaves
and red dots.  Numerous penwork initials of good quality, 5- to 2-line,
alternate in red and blue with purple and red penwork respectively, often
extending into the margins.  Headings in red.  Majuscules and display
script touched with yellow.
Binding:  Florence, s. xv/xvi.  Sewn on three tawed skin, slit straps
attached to oak boards, with brown and natural color endbands [later 
additions?] sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the
boards.
Covered in orange/brown sheepskin neatly blind-tooled with rope interlace
in concentric frames.  Spine:  double fillets at head and tail and outlining
the supports on the spine; fine diapering with double fillets in the 
panels.  Four flower-shaped catches on the lower board, two wanting.  Remains
of vellum label (wormeaten) on the spine and pieces of string used as place 
marks.  Off-set impressions of medieval liturgical manuscript on front and back
pastedowns.  Orange edges.  Sticky from excessive oiling.

Written in Italy in 1493 by the prior Benedetto de' Serragli (colophon, art. 2)
of the Vallombrosan house of San Salvi (Cottineau, v. 2, cols. 2875-76); 
ownership inscription on front pastedown and on front flyleaf (partially 
effaced):  "Iste liber monasterij *** [Sancti Salvi?] vallis umbrose." 
Unidentified oval white label with blue scalloped edge with "2" written in red 
ink, on spine.  Purchased from B. M. Rosenthal in 1959 by Thomas E. Marston 
(bookplate).

secundo folio:  [index:]  leaf missing
[text, f. 5:]  [ghan]natore la qual

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 95, no. 263.

Barbara A. Shailor