Beinecke MS 69                                                   Italy [?], s. XV^^med
Juvenal; Persius

     1. ff. 1r-81r    Semper ego auditor tantum numquam ne reponam/ Vexatus
     tociens rauci theseide codri/...Pytagoras conctis animalibus abstinuit
     qui/ Tamquam homine et uentri indulsit non omne legumen. Explicit
     Satirarum Liber Decii Iunii Iuuenalis. Amen. [added in a later hand:]
     Aquini.

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

     2. ff. 81v-95v   Prima Satira. [N]ec fonte labra prolui caballino/ Nec
     in bicipiti sompniasse parnaso/...Iam deties redit in rugam depinge ubi
     sistam/ Inuentus crisippe tui finitor acerui. Explicit Liber Persii
     Satirice. [added in another hand:] Satira Sexta.

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

     3. ff. 97r-98r    Miscellaneous sententiae, all unidentified. One of
     the miscellaneous poems, said to have been by Petrarch, is no longer in
     the manuscript; it may have been on f. 96 which was already missing
     when Ullman included it in his index (Ullman, no. 55). ff. 98v-99r
     blank

     4. f. 99v    Excerpts from Seneca.

     5. f. 100r    [Poem attributed in the manuscript to Antonio Beccadelli;
     heading in codex:] Panormita. Dum mea me genetrix grauido gestaret in
     aluo [partly concealed by mending tape]...femina uir neutrum flumina
     tella cruces [in a later hand:] mirabilis conclusio.

          A. Beccadelli, Carmen de hermaphrodita [Treviso, ca. 1475]; Hain
     10502.

     6. f. 100v    Monaca: Me tibi teque mihi genus etas et decor
     equant...Gaudeo quia uerbis sum superata tuis. f. 101r-v blank

          Short dialogue between a nun and a cleric; Walther, Initia 10852.

          Paper (sturdy; watermarks: similar to Briquet Couronne 4639-40 and
     unidentified bird), ff. i (contemporary paper) + 100 (foliation begins
     on 2; f. 96 cut out), 212 x 143 (142 x 82) mm. Written in 24 lines of
     verse; single bounding lines; ruled in hard point.
          I^^10, II^^12 (-8; no loss of text), III^^16, IV^^12, V^^14, VI^^10,
     VII^^12, VIII^^10, IX^^6 (-1). Catchwords perpendicular to text along
     inner bounding line.
          Written in humanistic script by a single scribe. Marginal and
     interlinear notes in several contemporary hands.
          One original initial, in red, on f. 1r; all other initials appear
     to be later additions, some drawn in lead.
          Most leaves mended in lower outer corner.
          Binding: s. xix. Narrow brown calf spine with traces of gold
     tooling, small vellum corners and purple paper sides. Much rubbed and
     worn.

          Written possibly in Italy in the mid-15th century; its origin is
     difficult to determine. The script is Italian in appearance, but the
     paper seems to be Northern European (watermarks similar in type to
     Briquet Couronne 4639: Duesseldorf 1438, and Couronne 4640: Colmar
     1441). Obtained (ca. 1820) by Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 292, note on f.
     1r) from the Abbey of S. Ghislain in Belgium. His sale (1896, no. 785)
     to Leighton (Cat. 1, 1920, no. 252; 5, 1924, no. 56); J. T. Adams sale
     (London, 7 Dec. 1931, no. 137) to Maggs. Purchased from Maggs by Thomas
     E. Marston (bookplate) who presented it to Yale in 1936.

     secundo folio: Exul ob

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 155, no. 4.

     Barbara A. Shailor