Beinecke MS 67                                                      Italy, 1468, 1469
Juvenal; Persius

     1. ff. 1r-72v    Materiam et causas satirarum hac inspice prima./
     [S]emper ego auditor tantum nunquam ne reponam/ Vexatus totiens rauci
     Theseide codri/...Pytagoras coeteris Animalibus abstinuit qui/ Tanquam
     homine et ventri indulserit omne ligumen. Telos. Finis. Laus Deo.
     Iunius Iuuenalis Aquinas explicit per me donnum Franciscum cognomento
     Phylaretum scriptus die Iouis tertia Februarii Mcccclxviiii presentibus
     discretis ac eruditis adolenscentibus Iuliano Pytio. Cristoforo Pyerio.
     Donno Berardino Aquilio. ac pientissimo Iohanni Baptista Pegaso patrono
     libri tempore quo Federicus Tertius Romanorum Imperator Secundo Italiam
     uenerat. f. 73r-v blank except for doodlings, etc.

          Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV); W. V. Clausen,
     ed., OCT (1959) pp. 37-175. For the argumenta of Guarino of Verona
     (added at the beginning of satires) see S. Endlicher, Catalogus codicum
     philologicorum latinorum Bibliothecae Palatinae Vindobonensis (Vienna,
     1836) p. 116 and Walther, Initia 10770.

     2. ff. 74r-84v    Nec fonte labra prolui caballino/ Nec in bicipiti
     sonniasse parnaso/...Iam decies redit in rugam depinge ubi sistam/
     Inuentus crisippe tui finitor accerui. Persius Flaccus Satyricus poeta
     uolateranus uolateris natus anni mundi v ccxxxvi Imperii Tiberii anno
     xxi mortuus autem anno aetatis sue xxix Imperii Neronis anno viiii.
     Telos. Ego Franciscus Seroddi Centinomius pulcriori autem cognomine et
     quo immodum glorior Phylaretus dictus hunc Libellum peregi ob imperium
     diui et pientissimi adolescentis Berardini Petri qui me gratis scribere
     iussit die lune xxviiii Mai mcccclxviii.

          Persius, Prologue followed by Satirae I-VI; Clausen, op. cit., pp.
     3-28.

     3. ff. 85r-87v    Astrological notes on the moon in the twelve signs of
     the zodiac, beginning with a passage on De luna arietis (Cum luna
     fuerit in Ariete bonum est incipere iter...) and ending with De luna
     piscis (Cum luna fuerit in piscibus bonum est facere...).

          Thorndike and Kibre, 315.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Lettre R. 8941 and Harlfinger
     Fleche 12), ff. i (contemporary paper) + 87, 235 x 165 (150 x 97) mm.
     Written in 27 lines of verse; double vertical bounding lines, single
     horizontal, most full across. Ruled in lead; irregular pattern of round
     prickings.
          I-VII^^10, VIII^^4 (-3), IX^^10, X^^4. Catchwords perpendicular to
     text between inner bounding lines.
          Written in humanistic script by three scribes. The principal
     scribe, Franciscus Seroddi Centinomius Phylaretus, wrote ff. 1r-72v and
     79r-84v; he signed the manuscript on ff. 72v and 84v (see contents for
     colophons, the first of which is quoted in Colophons, v. 1, p. 108, no.
     4395). Scribe 2 wrote ff. 74r-78v and Scribe 3 the notes on ff. 85r-
     87v. Marginal and interlinear glosses in several contemporary hands.
     Argumenta of Guarino of Verona in red rustic capitals preceding each
     title; spaces for decorative initials never filled. Various schoolboy
     notes with drawings on flyleaf and pastedowns of both covers.
          Binding: s. xvi? Vellum stays. Original sewing on three slit,
     tawed straps. Primary, plain and secondary, beaded endbands on twisted,
     tawed cores, laid in grooves and pegged or nailed. Spine lined with
     tawed skin, mostly lacking. Straps laced and pegged or nailed into
     beech boards covered in (originally) brick-red leather, blind-tooled
     with an inscription in a border around an inner panel of overlapping
     circles interspersed with dots. Four flower-shaped bosses on each board
     and two catches on the lower one. Two bosses and clasp straps wanting.

          Written in 1468 and 1469 for Berardinus Petrus (unidentified, as
     are the other young men in the colophons who appear to be listed
     according to their nicknames). Signatures (16th century?) of one
     Franciscus on f. 13r and Frater Francischanus on f. i verso. Acquired
     from Maggs in 1932 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) who presented it to
     Yale in 1936.

     secundo folio: Haec ego non

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 155, no. 2.

     Barbara A. Shailor