Beinecke MS 64                                                         Italy, s. XV^^2
Martial, etc.

     1. ff. 1r-193v    Marci Valerii Martialis. Xenia. Incipiunt. Te toga
     cordilis et penula desit oliuis/ Aut inopem metuat sordida blata
     famem/... Ientacula. Surgite iam uendit pueris ientacula pistor/
     Cristateque sonant undique lucis aues.

          The codex was misbound; the order of the epigrams is as follows
     (based on the Teubner edition of W. Heraeus and J. Borovskij, 1976): f.
     1r-v: Xenia [Liber 13] 1-10 (continued on f. 6r); ff. 2r-3v: 12. 84-98;
     ff. 4r-5v: 13. 29-64; f. 6r-v: 13. 11-28; ff. 7r-87v: 1. 41-6. 88
     (missing 1. 47); ff. 88r-186v: 7. 2-12. 83; ff. 187r-188v: 13. 65-100;
     ff. 189r-193r: 14. 149-222.
          Excerpts from the critical commentary of Domizio Calderini
     (Professor of Rhetoric at Rome in 1470) surround the text on ff. 1r-24v
     and 165r-193r. See CTC, v. 4, pp. 261-65 (the first edition of this
     commentary was published in Rome in 1474).

     2. ff. 193r-194v    [Unidentified prose text outlining the development
     of civilization:] In noua terra credibile est fuisse omnia semina rerum
     nulla mixta [corrected to mista] et si qua sunt aut
     industria...Antoninus non solum pius sed***commodus Gordianus Iunior//

          Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 194 + i (paper), 162 x 100 (114 x 62)
     mm. Written in 27 lines of verse; double vertical bounding lines, with
     an additional line in outer margin; ruled in hard point or lead.
          I^^6, II-IX^^10, X^^10 (-2, 9), XI-XX^^10.
          Written by one scribe in a neat italic for the text and a less 
	formal hand for the commentary and for the unidentified text on ff. 
	193r-194v.
          Gold initials, 5-line, on blue, dark red and green grounds, with
     white and gold highlights, mark the beginning of each book. Small,
     plain initials, alternating red and blue, for each epigram. Commentary
     and titles, in various shades of red.
          Final folios creased and rubbed; some loss of marginal text due to
     trimming and wear.
          Binding: s. xviii-xix. Vellum case, blind-tooled.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century for or by
     an individual interested in the scholarly commentary of Domizio
     Calderini; early provenance unknown. Presented to Yale in 1936 by
     Thomas E. Marston.

     secundo folio: Nolueram

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2253, no. 64.

     Barbara A. Shailor