Beinecke MS 68                                                         Italy, s. XV^^2
Juvenal; Persius

     1. ff. 1r-75r    Semper ego auditor tantum numquam ne reponam/ Vexatus
     totiens rauci theseide codri/...Vt qui fortis erit sit foelicissimus
     idem/ Vt laeti phaleris omnes et torquibus omnes. Iunii Iuuenalis
     aquinatis liber satyrarum quintus explicit. f. 75v blank

          Juvenal,Satirae I-XVI; W. V. Clausen, ed., OCT (1959) pp. 37-175.

     2. ff. 76r-88v    Nec fonte labra prolui caballino/ Nec in bicipiti
     somniasse parnaso/...Iam decies redit in rugam depinge ubi sistam/
     Inuentus chrysippe tui finitor acerui. ff. 89r-90v blank except for
     some notes in Italian and cipher

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

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14873), ff. iv
     (contemporary paper) + 90, 215 x 127 (150 x 80) mm. Written in 26 lines
     of verse; double vertical and single horizontal bounding lines.
          I-IX^^10. Catchwords perpendicular to text between inner bounding
     lines.
          Written in humanistic script by a single scribe.
          Six illuminated initials in blue or green, 6- to 5-line on gold
     rectangular grounds (ff. 1r, 20r, 32v, 45v, 59r, 76r); smaller
     initials, in blue, for the remaining satires.
          Binding: s. xvi? Vellum stays and vellum reinforcement of own end
     leaves. Resewn on three slit straps bound in wooden boards covered in
     brown leather, blind-tooled, with two catches on the upper board. Too
     heavily restored to tell much about the binding.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century; the arms
     of the original owner (f. 1r) have been mutilated. J. T. Adams sale
     (London, 7 Dec. 1931, no. 136) to Maggs; purchased by Thomas E. Marston
     (bookplate) who gave it to Yale in 1936.

     secundo folio: Exul ab

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 155, no. 3.

     Barbara A. Shailor