Beinecke MS 12                                                         Italy, s. XV^^1
Prayers, Hymns, etc., to the Virgin Mary (Lat. and It.)

     1. f. 1r-v    Canti go [sic] zoiosi e dolce melodie/ tutti cridiamo
     alla humile maria/...[Tenneroni, p. 74].

     2. f. 2r    Benedecta verzenella madre de dio/ chel mi conuene...
     [Tenneroni, p. 70].

     3. ff. 2r-3v    Regina del cor mio/ a ti cum mente pia/...[Tenneroni,
     p. 227].

     4. ff. 4r-7r    Laude deuotissime della gloriosissima Verzene...O aula
     e masone della uniuerssale propiciatione. Casone della generale
     reconciliatione....

     5. ff. 7r-8r    [Prayers to the Virgin with responses:] Corona
     sacratissime uirginis matris marie. In primis ad matutinum dicitur.
     Verssus. Domine labia mea aperies. Responsio. Et os meum annutiabit
     laudem tuam... Postea. Aue maria....

     6. f. 8r    Seven Temporal Joys of the Virgin. [HE 63-64]

     7. f. 8r-v    Seven Joys (unspecified). Gaude ergo de cetero et exulta
     mecum quia gloria mea excellit....

     8. ff. 8v-9r    Seven Spiritual Joys of the Virgin [HE 64-65] followed
     by Oratio [HE 66] ending: et ad gaudia tue eterne beatitudinis
     feliciter ueniamus. Qui uiuis et cetera// ff. 9v-15v blank

          Paper (watermarks obscured by binding and trimming), ff. 16
     (contemporary foliation, 3 bis; modern foliation, used in contents
     above, begins on second leaf [i, 1-15]), 225 x 172 (161 x 118) mm.
     Written in 33 long lines or lines of verse; single (sometimes double)
     bounding lines. Ruled in hard point; prickings visible at outer corners
     of written space for ff. 9-16.
          Composed of a single gathering of sixteen leaves.
          Written by one scribe in round gothic bookhand.
          Four poorly executed initials in gold and colors on ff. 1r, 2r
     (two), and 4r; the last accompanied by green and gold dots. Red initial
     strokes; rubrics throughout.
          Binding: single quire tacketed to a piece of folded vellum.

          Written in Italy in the first half of th 15th century; early inscription on front
     cover "Questa sie de madona felippa da thano [for Tanno near
     Sondrio?]." Purchased by Yale in 1911 with the income of the Edward
     Wells Southworth Fund.

     secundo folio: Benedecta

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 164, no. 12.

Barbara A. Shailor