Beinecke MS 6 (olim Z109.28)                                         Italy, s. XIV^^ex
St. Bernardine of Siena, Tractatus de restitutionibus

          ff. 1r-77r    Incipit tractatus de restitutionibus. editus a
     venerabili patre fratre Bernardino de senis. Prohemium. Restitues
     hereditatem meam mihi. Inter cetera quae ad christianam
     religionem...[text:] Prima principalis pars. Quis restituere tenetur.
     Sermo 33. Primo est considerare necesse est. Quis restituere
     obligatur...Putredini dixi pater meus es. mater mea. et soror mea
     vermibus. f. 77v ruled, but blank

          The text is a part of the De christiana religione of St.
     Bernardine, often copied as a separate work. See S. Bernardini Senensis
     ordinis fratrum minorum opera omnia.... (Florence, 1950) v. 1, pp. 400-
     532. The Beinecke codex is listed as no. 90, p. xxxix, in this edition;
     the sermons in MS 6 are numbered 33 through 40.

          Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 77 + iii (paper), 135 x 97 (98 x 65)
     mm. Written in 28-30 long lines, with the single bounding lines usually
     ruled in lead, the guide-lines for the text in ink; prickings for
     bounding lines at outer edge.
          I-VI^^10, VIII^^10 (-8, 9, 10). Horizontal catchwords in lower right
     hand portion of verso, with two dots and a flourish at beginning and
     end of word(s).
          Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script.
          Initials, headings and paragraph marks in red.
          Binding: s. xix/xx. Vellum case.

          Written in Italy at the end of the 14th century; early provenance
     unknown. Bought with the income of the Edward Wells Southworth Fund in
     1910.

     secundo folio: quis inuenta

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 162, no. 6.

Barbara A. Shailor