Beinecke MS 63                                                         Italy, s. XV^^2
Excerpts from Greek & Latin authors (all in Lat.)

          Excerpts are listed according to the headings given in the
     manuscript; the divisions and titles indicated by Roman numerals
     suggest a rationale for the arrangement.

          I. Orations

     1. ff. 1r-7r    Excerpta ex oratione eschinis contra tesiphontem [Lat.
     tr., Leonardo Bruni]

     2. ff. 7r-11v    Ex oratione demosthenis contra eschinem

     3. f. 12r-v    Ex philippica Demosthenis

     4. f. 12v    Demosthenes ad alexandrum

          II. Lives

     5. f. 13r    In Vita Tiberij et Gaij graccorum

     6. f. 13r    In Vita thimoleonis

     7. f. 13v    In Vita Sertorij

     8. ff. 13v-18v    Ex Vita Pauli emilij

     9. f. 19r    Ex Vita Eumenis

     10. f. 19r-v    Ex Vita Sertorij

     11. ff. 20r-23v    Ex Vita Marci antonij [Lat. tr., Leonardo Bruni] f.
     24r-v blank

          III. Exempla

     12. f. 25r    Ex prefatione Fr. philelphi in aphotegmata plutarci

     13. ff. 25r-42r    Ex prefatione Plutarci ad Traianum [followed by a
     series of exempla externa which include Dionysius, Archelaus,
     Alexander, Ptolomeus, et al.]

     14. ff. 42r-50v    Sequntur domestica. 1. Romana [includes Fabius,
     Scipio, Cato the Elder, et al.]

          IV. Excerpts from Valerius Maximus

     15. ff. 51r-54v    Excerpta ex Valerio maximo [selections from Book 1,
     arranged under the headings: de religione, de neglecta religione, de
     ominibus, de prodigiis, de somniis, de miraculis]

     16. ff. 54v-60v    Liber secundus [selections: de institutis antiquis;
     de disclipina militari; de iure triumphandi; de censura; de maiestate]

     17. ff. 60v-67r    Incipit tertius [selections: de indole; de
     fortitudine, de patientia, de humili loco natis qui clari euaserunt,
     qui a parentibus claris degenerauerunt, qui ueste aut cultu ultra
     patrium morem usi sunt, de fiducia sui, de constantia]

     18. ff. 67r-72v    Incipit IIII [selections: de moderatione, qui ex
     inimicis iuncti sint amicitia uel necessitudine, de abstinentia et
     continentia, de paupertate, de uerecundia, de amore coniugali, de
     amicitia et dilectione, de liberalitate]

     19. ff. 72v-78v    Liber quintus [selections: de humanitate et
     clementia, de gratis, de ingratis, de pietate erga parentes fratres et
     patriam, de parentum in liberos amore et indulgentia, de seueritate
     parentum in liberos]

     20. ff. 78v-85r    Liber sextus [selections: de pudicitia, libere dicta
     aut facta, de seueritate, grauiter dicta aut facta, de iustitia, de
     fide publica, de fide uxorum in uiros, de fide seruorum in dominos, de
     mutatione morum ac fortune]

     21. ff. 85r-90v    Liber septimus [selections: de felicitate, sapienter
     dicta aut facta, uafre (?) dicta aut facta, de stratagematibus, de
     repulsis, de necessitate]

     22. ff. 91r-93r    Liber octauus [selections: infames rei, de testibus
     malis, de studio et industria, de ocio, quanta uis sit eloquentie, de
     senectute, de cupiditate glorie]

     23. ff. 93r-95v    Liber nonus [selections: de luxuria, de crudelitate,
     de ira et odio, de auaritia, de superbia et insolentia, de perfidia, de
     errore, de ultione, dicta improba aut facta, de moribus non uulgaribus,
     de cupiditate uite, de similitudine forme] f. 96r-v blank

          See D. M. Schullian, "A Revised List of Manuscripts of Valerius
     Maximus," Miscellanea Augusto Campana in Medievo e Umanesimo, v. 45
     (Padua, 1981) p. 712.

          V. Excerpts from Xenophon [Lat. tr., Francesco Filelfo]

     24. ff. 97r-102v    Ex libello Xenofontis de Vita Cyrri Regis Persarum

          VI. Lives

     25. ff. 103r-108v    Ex Vita M. Catonis uticensis per aretinum e greco
     traducta

     26. ff. 109r-112v    Ex Vita Catonis Censorini

     27. ff. 113r-115r    Ex Vita Aristidis

     28. ff. 115v-116r    Ex Vita Phocionis

     29. ff. 116v-117r    Ex Vita Pompei

     30. ff. 117v-119r    Ex Vita Ciceronis

     31. ff. 119v-120v    Ex Vita Ligurgi

     32. f. 121r-v    Ex Vita Nume Pompilij. ff. 122-124 blank

          VI. Seneca's Tragedies

     33. ff. 125r-127r    Excerpta ex prima tragedia senece que inscribitur
     hercules furens

     34. ff. 127r-130r    Sequitur athreus et Thiestes

     35. f. 130v    Thebays

     36. ff. 131r-134r    Ipolitus

     37. ff. 134r-135r    Edippus sequitur

     38. ff. 135v-136v    Trohas

     39. ff. 136v-137v    Sequitur medee

     40. ff. 137v-139r    Incipit Agamemnon

     41. ff. 139r-140v    Sequitur Octauia

     42. ff. 140v-142r    Sequitur hercules oethei

          VII. Miscellaneous

     43. ff. 142v-146v    Ex Seuerino siue Boetio de consolatione
     philosophye

     44. f. 147r-v    Ex Libello Guarrini de Assentatoribus

     45. ff. 147v-148v    Ex Aristotelis economica

     46. ff. 149r-150v    Ex libello Basilij

     47. ff. 151r-152r    Ex Epistola Beati Bernardi

     48. f. 152r-v    Epistola Phallaris demotelli

          VIII. Roman Comedy

     49. ff. 153r-158r    [Terence] f. 158v blank

     50. ff. 159r-167v    Ex Plauto. ff. 168-171 blank

          Paper (sturdy; unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include
     hat, ladder, crossed arrows, cross bow), ff. i (paper) + 171 + i
     (paper), 255 x 183 (158 x 112) mm. Written in ca. 29 long lines or
     lines of verse; paper has been neatly folded to make the vertical
     bounding lines for written space.
          I^^10, II^^14, III^^16, IV-XI^^14, XII^^10, XIII^^10 (-10). Remains of
     signatures in lower right corner, recto; catchwords in lower margin
     near gutter, verso.
          Written by two scribes: Scribe 1 (ff. 1r-152v) wrote in a careful
     humanistic script for text and modified capitals for headings; Scribe 2
     (ff. 153r-167v) retained the overall format but used a less elegant
     style of writing.
          Binding: s. xviii. Plain sheepskin case.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century with great
     care, as is indicated by the ample margins (perhaps for later
     annotations?) and by the arrangement of excerpts; early provenance
     unknown. No. 33 in an unidentified sale. Presented to Yale in 1931 by
     Thomas E. Marston.

     secundo folio: Pacem dum

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2253, no. 63.

     Barbara A. Shailor