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Marston MS 285 Italy, s. XIV-XV
Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis Mariae, etc.
I. 1. ff. 1r-38r Prologus in opus singularissimum de speculabilibus
Beatissme Virginis marie matris domini nostri yhesu Christi.... [prologue:]
Quoniam de gestis beatissime virginis dei genitricis ad modum pauca in
euangelica reperiuntur ystoria quedam uero antiqua scripta que uitam eius et
originem et assumptionem cum quibusdam miraculis ystorico modo describere
uidentur olim...intentio dirigatur de facili totum opus per capitula subiecta
distinxi. [list of chapters:] De laudibus uirginis matris i. Qualiter
oraculis predicta est diuinis. ii...Oratio specialis pro se ad eandem.
141. Oratio ad filium pariter et matrem. 142. [text:] Capitulum primum
de laudibus beatissime virginis Marie. Si deum ore prophetico iubemur
sanctis suis. laudare multo magis in memoria virginis matris eius...ut in
eternum psallat tota substantia mea. Amen.
Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu de gestis Beatae Virginis
Mariae,
with text divided into 142 chapters. In arts. 1 and 3 the author and/or text
quoted is cited in the margin. Copinger 6259; J. Quetif and J. Echard,
Scriptores ordinis praedicatoris (Paris, 1719), v. 1, pp. 236-38, no. 2.
2. f. 38r [Title, in margin:] Petrus comestor. in laudem Beate uirginis.
[text:] Si fieri possit que arene puluis et unde/...Que tua sit pietas nec
littera nec dabit etas. Explicit feliciter.
Petrus Comestor, Carmen in laudem beatae Virginis (10 lines);
Walther, Initia 17728; PL 198.1045.
3. ff. 38r-44r [No rubric; prologue:] Completo diligenter ex dictis
sanctorum patrum pro modulo uirium nostrarum auxiliante domino tractatu
diffusiori de beatissima Virgine dei genitrice...habet autem capitula
uiginti quinque. [list of chapters:] De origine sancti iohannis euangeliste.
1./ De arte ipsius et priori conuersatione. 2...De ipso apostolo interpellando
a nobis et imitando. 24. [text:] De origine sancti iohannis
euangeliste.
Beatus Iohannes euangelista uirgo est a domino electus...per caritatem dei
filius descendit in uirginem. nos exaltet ad paterne glorie caritatem. Amen.
Explicit opus cum gracia yhesu christi.
Vincent of Beauvais, De laudibus seu gestis Iohannis evangeliste; with
text divided into 26 chapters. Copinger 6259; Quetif-Echard,
op.cit.,
v. 1, pp. 236-38, no. 3.
4. f. 44r-v Pictures of St. Barbara and Thomas Aquinas, and a medieval
illuminated initial S (England [?], s. XV) pasted to blank pages.
II. 5. ff. 45r-56r [Heading:] Incipit opus domini Stephani Parisiensis
Episcopi contra impugnantes scientiam sancti Thome de Aquino ordinis
predicatorum et eam non intelligentes. [text:] [D]istinccione prima.
questione quarta dicitur quod subiectum theologie est ens cognoscibile
per inspiracionem. In prima parte summe questione prima articulo septimo
dicitur quod deus sit subiectum theologie...qui concordia facit in sublimibus
cui est honor et gloria in secula seculorum. amen. ff. 56v-57r ruled
but blank
Stephanus Parisiensis [?], unidentified text supporting the theology of
Thomas Aquinas.
6. ff. 57v-58v [Heading:] Incipit sermo sancti augustini de diuinatione
demonum. [text:] [Q]uodam die in diebus sanctis octauarum cum apud me
mane fuissent...contradictiones peruenerint quantum deus adiuvabit
respondebimus. Amen.
Augustine, De divinatione daemonum; J. Zycha, ed., CSEL 41 (1900)
p. 597.
III. 7. ff. 59r-60r [No heading, text begins:] [Q]ueritur de ssensu
[sic]
communi Et primo queritur que sit necessitas ponendi sensum communem. Ad
quod dicendum quod in omni natura...sed communis quia per posterius
sentit omnia.
Albertus Magnus, De sensu communi; I. Brady, ed., "Two Sources of the
Summa de homine
et medievale, 20, 3-4 (1953) pp. 222-71; I. Brady, "Source or Extract? A
Note on St. Albert," Recherches de theologie ancienne et medievale, 25
(1958) pp. 142-43.
8. ff. 60r-62v [No heading, text begins:] [S]unt autem secundum philosophum
partes anime sensibiles que sunt aprehensiue...et est in subiecto cum
eodem cum memoria. Explicit tractatus de sensu communi et quinque potentijs
anime interioribus editus a fratre Alberto ordinis predicatorum.
ff. 63r-64v ruled, but blank
Albertus Magnus, De quinque potentiis anime interioribus; for bibliography
see art. 7.
IV. 9. f. 66r-v (col. a not legible;
col. b:) //La turba questa meraveglia odendo/ S[?] credeva nel so detto/
C[?] piu de lui seguir ardita/ Questa cosa da i farisei odita/...Cantando
osana filio davit/ Ch'en el intravit/ Sia benedetto nella sua vertute/ Alora
ebbe yesu si grande honore/ Ch'en questa vita no l'ebbe magiore/ Di lune
[ema?] che po questo [mute?]/ Cristo in ierusalem demora fece//;
f. 65r-v //Un poco fo aperto mal dolore/ Volse che senpre stesse a lui
sogietta/ Ch'era in lei demessa ogne valore/...Ploratus matris christi cum
aliquibus dominabus. Rubrica. Era cum quella asai persone sante/
Piangendo cristo forte se dolendo/ Ch'eran venute in compagnia sua tante/...Io
mo te faccio la devota laude/ Che prestamente teco me spilisca/ En la spultura
[sic] tua costor me chiavi/ E questo mondo piu no me nutrisca//
Fragment of an account of the Passion of Christ; on f. 66r-v: interest
of the Pharisees; death proposed by Caiaphas; dinner in the house of Simon,
with Martha serving and Mary Magdalen pouring out ointment; decision of
Judas to betray Jesus; entry into Jerusalem; on f. 65r-v: Christ
on the cross; Mary entrusted to the care of John the Evangelist; Christ
ignores Mary's sorrow; lament of the Virgin with the Holy Women; deposition
from the cross by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus; entombment; lament of
the Virgin. The text is partially (on f. 65r-v) in terza rima.
V. 10. f. 67r-v ruled, but blank; ff. 68r-80v [A]bstinencia multipliciter
inuenitur. 42. c./ [A]bscondunt se quidam diuersitade. 151. g./ [A]borsus
peccatorum. 66. d./ Accusatores peccatorum tres. 5. g./...[Z]elus triplex.
19. b./ [Z]izania habet tria mala. 28. f. [Z]izania oritur tribus de
causis. 29. g.
Alphabetical index to an unidentified work.
Composed of five distinct parts, ff. ii (paper) + 80 (old foliation,
Arabic numerals 1-79, in ink, skipping leaf between ff. 26 and 28) + ii
(paper).
Part I: ff. 1-44, parchment, 250 x 180 (177 x 136) mm. 2 columns, 48
lines. Frame-ruled in lead. Remains of prickings in upper, lower and
outer margins. I-III 10, IV 14. Horizontal catchwords in center of lower
margin, verso. Written by a single scribe in small gothic bookhand, below
top line. Blue initial, 6-line, with parchment designs and red penwork
harping patterns on f. 1r. Plain initials, 4- to 3-line alternate red and
blue. Headings, underlining, paragraph marks and chapter numbers, some
initial strokes, in red. Guide letters for decorator in margins.
Part II: ff. 45-58, parchment, 248 x 182 (218 x 140) mm. 2 columns, 69
lines. Frame-ruled in lead. Prickings at four corners of written space.
I 10, II 8 (-5 through 8, blanks). Written by two scribes, the one for
art. 5, the other for art. 6, in small, tight gothic cursive scripts.
Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled.
Part III: ff. 59-64, paper (watermarks: unidentified balance), 250 x
180 (190 x 142) mm. 2 columns, 51 lines. Single vertical bounding lines;
ruled in hard point or lead. A single gathering of six leaves. Written
by a single scribe in a small gothic text hand. Spaces left for
decorative initials remain unfilled.
Part IV: ff. 65-66, parchment, 247 x 180 (195 x 155) mm. 2 columns, 37
lines. Remains of prickings in outer margin, f. 66. The two leaves,
perhaps removed from a binding, are not conjugate: f. 66 is glued to the
conjugate stub of f. 65. Written in round gothic bookhand. One initial,
2-line, on f. 65v and remains of another on conjugate stub: red with
crudely drawn penwork designs in black and red. Headings, paragraph marks
and initial strokes in orange-tinged red.
Part V: ff. 67-80, parchment, 248 x 182 (188 x 137) mm. 2 columns, 35
lines. Single or double vertical bounding lines in lead. Text rulings in
ink. Remains of prickings in upper margin. A single gathering of 14
leaves. Written in a neat gothic bookhand. On ff. 68r-69r every other
entry begins with a 1-line plain blue initial; second letter of each entry
washed with yellow; citations of Arabic numerals in red. Guide letters for
decorator.
Binding: England, s. xix-xx. Semi-limp vellum case with a gold-tooled
title. Bound by Pierson [remainder of stamp on front pastedown difficult
to read]. On spine: "Miscellanea Theologica. Stephanus Parisiensis. S.
Augustinus. Albertus Magnus etc. Mss XIVe S."
Parts I-V all written in Italy in different periods. Part I: s. XIV 2;
Parts II-III, s. XIV/XV; Part IV, s. XV; Part V: s. XIV. It is unclear
when the parts were joined together. According to the modern note of
Baron C. A. de Cosson (see below) on front flyleaf, the volume belonged to
the Dominican convent of San Zanipolo in Venice ("From the Library of S.
S. Giovanni e Paolo, Venice. See note in a 14th century M.S. of the
Golden Legend bought at the same time, 1876"). Bookplate of de Cosson on
front pastedown; his sale (Sotheby's, 27 March 1950, no. 32). No. 165 in
an unidentified sale catalogue (copy in library files). Shelf-mark, in
pencil, f. 1r: "N.1." Date and place of purchase by Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate) unknown.
secundo folio: indignus
Barbara A. Shailor