Marston MS 275     Northern Italy [?], s. XVI [?]
Solinus, Collectanea rerum memorabilium

ff. 1r-41r  Cum et aurium clementia et optimarum artium studijs 
prestare te ceteris sentiam.  idque opido [sic] expertus de 
beniuolentia tua nichil temere precipere me reputaui...Deinde cum 
monstra illa putredine tabefacta sunt omnia illic inficit tetro 
odore ideoque non penitus ad nuncupationem congruam insularum 
qualitatem.  C. iulij. solini finis.  f. 41v blank

T. Mommsen, ed., (Berlin, 1864; 2nd ed. 1896).  Text is missing 
the following passages:  f. 39v "fragmenta scalptoribus...nitellam 
pinguiorem ut," f. 39v "margaritis scatet...regionibus offendit," 
f. 40v "hoc locorum...non caret vitibus."
	
	Paper (thin, sized, no watermarks visible; f. 41 only, thick, 
coarse paper with indistinguishable watermark), ff. ii (paper) 
+ 41 + ii (paper), 275 x 209 (178 x 115) mm.  40 long lines.  
Single vertical bounding lines  ruled in crayon; text rulings in lead.
	I-IV 10 (+ 1 leaf at end).  Horizontal catchwords centered 
along lower edge, verso.
	Written by a single scribe in a very stylized round humanistic 
bookhand with gothic features and fine hair-line appendages to many
letters, above top line.  Script perhaps influenced by printing.
	Plain red initials, 8- to 3-line; guide letters for decorator. 
Space for heading, f. 1r, left unfilled.
	Binding:  England or France, s. xviii.  Bluish green goatskin, 
gold-tooled, with two red gold-tooled labels:  "Solini Memor. Mundi" 
and "MSS Chart. 1468." Yellow tail edge.

Written perhaps in Northern Italy in the 16th [?] century, though 
the very stylized script and lack of watermarks make it difficult to 
localize and date with certainty.  The date on the binding, 1468, does
not appear in the text of the manuscript.  Unidentified notes include: 
"21" in red crayon on f. 41r at conclusion of text; "V24/ 69" in 
pencil on first front flyleaf, verso; "D" in a circle, written in 
pencil on f. 1r.  Purchased in 1960 from Nicolas Rauch, Geneva, 
by L. C. Witten (inv. no. 3101), who sold it the same year to 
Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).

secundo folio:  pastorali

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 96, no. 275.

Barbara A. Shailor

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