Beinecke MS 66                                                         Italy, s. XV^^2
Leonicenus Omnibonus, De arte metrica, etc.

     1. ff. 1r-13v    Omniboni Vicentini Viri Eruditissimi Artis Metricae
     Tractatus Incit [sic]. Pes in metro dicitur quod pedis fungitur
     officitio [sic] metra enim per pedes quodammodo incedunt...Mezenti
     ducis exuuias. Breuis in hoc Nemorosa Zacynthos. [Greek]

          L. Omnibonus, De arte metrica (Padua, ca. 1476).

     2. ff. 14r-24r    [B]arbarismus Est Vna Pars Orationis Vitiosa in
     Communi sermone in poemate. Metaplasmus itemque barbarismus in loquela
     nostra...ledeamque helenam troianas uexit ad urbes.

          Donatus, De Barbarismo et soloecismo (Ars maior, Part 3); H. Keil,
     ed., Grammatici latini (Hildesheim, 1961) v. 4, pp. 392-402.

     3. ff. 24r-35v    [S]olet aliquotiens in scripturis ordo uerborum causa
     decoris aliter quam uulgaris uia dicendi...[Greek] est rerum genere
     dissimilium [?] comparatio ut regnum celorum grano sinapis et sicut
     moises exaltauit [ink blotch]//

          Lorenzo Guglielmo Traversagni de Savone, O. F. M. (1425-1503),
     Opusculum de re rhetorica (see J. Ruysschaert, ed., Bibliothecae
     Apostolicae Vaticanae codices manu scripti recensiti iussu...Codices
     11414-11709... [Vatican, 1959] MS 11441, art. 3).

     4. ff. 36r-45v    //Lex et regula ad eleuandam et deprimendam unius
     cuiusque partis orationis syllabam qui sit ad similitudinem elementorum
     litterarum atque syllabarum...Interiectio uero nullam certam regulam
     retinet tamen in fine uel in medio acuitur ut pape euax. [Greek].

          Pseudo-Priscian, De accentibus; Keil, op. cit. (Leipzig, 1859) v.
     3, pp. 519-28.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Balance 2489), ff. ii (modern
     paper) + 45 + ii (modern paper), 215 x 120 (125 x 62) mm. Written in 28
     long lines; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full across;
     ruled in hard point.
          I^^10, II-III^^12, IV^^11 (structure uncertain; one leaf with text
     missing between ff. 35 and 36). Catchwords arranged in a circle near
     gutter.
          Written by a single scribe in italic for the text and
     marginal notes, and in modified capitals for headings.
          Decorative initial and border outlined in red, but uncolored,
     appear on f. 1r. Frequent use of red ink in headings, marginalia and
     for long sections of the text.
          Water and ink stains throughout; some loss of text.
          Binding: s. xix. Brown calf, blind- and gold-tooled.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century for a
     scholar interested in grammar and rhetoric; early provenance unknown.
     Sold by Thorpe (cat. 1836, no. 910; not verified) to Sir Thomas
     Phillipps (no. 9511, note on f. 1r; label on spine); his sale (London,
     1935, no. 323) to Stonehill's. Presented to Yale by Thomas E. Marston
     in 1936.

     secundo folio: fieri uel

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2253, no. 66.

     Barbara A. Shailor