Beinecke MS 65                                                         Italy, s. XV^^2
Martial

          ff. 1r-238v    In amphitheatrum Caesaris. [B]arbara pyramidum
     sileat miracula memphis/ Assiduus iactet nec babillona labor/...Dic
     mihi simpliciter comedis et citharedis/ Fibula quid prestas carius ut
     futuant.//

          Ends abruptly at Bk. 14. 214; also missing Bk. 14. 79-93.2; W.
     Heraeus and J. Borovskij, eds., Teubner (1976) pp. 1-343.

          Paper (sturdy; watermarks: several unidentified in gutter,
     including the letter R), ff. iii (paper) + 238 + iii (paper), 217 x 143
     (131 x 80) mm. Written in ca. 22 lines of verse; double vertical
     bounding lines; ruled in hard point.
          I-II^^8, III-XXII^^10, XXIII^^14, XXIV^^10 (-1, 10).
          Written in informal humanistic scripts by multiple scribes. Each
     made notes in the margins for the rubricator (at least two distinct
     hands that alternate through the manuscript; some rubrics are
     illegible). Various types of catchwords; on f. 96v one is encompassed
     by a bird with a long beak.
          Plain initials in red; rubrics stop on f. 220r.
          Binding: s. xix. Bound by Zaehnsdorf (established ca. 1842) in
     half green goatskin with green cloth sides.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century,
     apparently in some haste. Lines were frequently omitted (then added in
     the margins) and poor planning resulted in a big blank space on f.
     186r-v; some rubrication bled from one folio to the next. Belonged to
     Thomas Hodgkin of Newcastle-on-Tyne (1831-1913; bookplate). Presented
     to Yale by Thomas E. Marston in 1936.

     secundo folio: Denique supplicium

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2253, no. 65.

     Barbara A. Shailor