Beinecke MS 70                                                            Italy, 1475
Juvenal								       Pl. 7

          ff. 1r-81r    Semper ego auditor tantum numquam ue reponam/
     Vexatus totiens rauci teseide codri/...Vt qui fortis erit sit
     felicissimus idem/ Vt leti faleris omnes et torquibus omnes. Finis.
     laus deo. Explicit liber satirici iuuenalis aquini. Scripsit
     benedictus
     1475 die secundo aprilis. f. 81v blank

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

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Lettre A 7918), ff. 81 + i
     (paper), 211 x 136 (151 x 80) mm. Written in 24 lines of verse; double
     bounding lines; ruled in hard point.
          I^^10, II^^12, III-VII^^10, VIII^^10 (-10). First catchword, enclosed
     in red flourishes, is located in middle of lower margin; others appear
     along bottom of page, some with red initial strokes.
          Written in a poorly formed humanistic script by a certain
     Benedictus (see contents for colophon).
          Initials, 5- to 3-line, in red, at beginning of each satire;
     initials stroked in red, for first letter of each verse.
          Binding: s. xviii-xix. Vellum case, with "Satyre Iuvena Saphon
     Carmin M.S." on spine, in gold.

          Written in Italy in 1475; early provenance unknown. Ex libris of
     Raimondo Ambrosini of Bologna (d. 1914), with notations "MS 474" and
     "7274" (codex not listed in G. Mazzatinti, ed., Inventari dei
     manuscritti delle Biblioteche d'Italia, 14 [Forli, 1909] pp. 9-58).
     Bought from Rosenthal's in 1932 by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) who
     presented it to Yale in 1936.

     secundo folio: cum populum

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2254, no. 70.

     Barbara A. Shailor