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Beinecke MS 58 Italy, 1461
Sozomenus Pistoriensis
ff. 1r-77r Persius Flaccus Satiricus poeta uulterris nascitur
omni mundi...mentes nostras cui sit honor et gloria in secula
seculorum. Amen. Ego bartholomeus de baldinottis scripsi anno
mcccclxi.
f. 77v blank
This commentary on Persius by Sozomenus Pistoriensis is found
anonymously in the Beinecke manuscript and in London, B. L. Harley
3989, the latter written by the author ca. 1427. See CTC, v. 3, pp.
253-55.
Paper (unidentified watermarks, trimmed) and parchment (f. 1), ff.
77, 166 x 121 (115 x 85) mm. Written in 27 long lines; frame-ruled in
lead or hard point; remains of prickings along outer edges.
I-VII^^10 (+1 leaf at beginning, f. 1), VIII^^6. Catchwords
perpendicular to text along inner bounding lines.
Written in a neat humanistic script in 1461 by Bartholomaeus
Baldinotti.
Small initials, in red, mark the beginning of prologue and each
satire.
Binding: s. xix. Vellum case.
Written in Italy in 1461 by Bartholomaeus Baldinotti (Colophons,
v. 1, p. 213, no. 1711); early provenance unknown. Presented to Yale in
1936 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate).
secundo folio: Nec fonte
Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2252, no. 58.
Barbara A. Shailor