YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
PRE-1600 MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 72 Italy, s. XV^^2
Juvenal
ff. 1r-69v [S]emper ego auditor tantum numquam ne reponam/
Vexatus totiens rauci teseide codri/... [final five lines added in a
later hand:] Pythagoras? c[u]nctis animalibus abstinuit qui/ Tamquam
homine et uentri indulsit non omne legumen? Expliciunt.
Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV); W. V. Clausen,
ed., OCT (1959) pp. 37-175.
Paper (watermarks similar to Harlfinger Huchet 18, 21, 22), ff. ii
(paper) + 69 + ii (paper), 217 x 144 (150 x 85) mm. Written in 28 lines
of verse; double vertical and horizontal lines, full across; ruled in
hard point, on verso.
I^^12 (-1), II-V^^12, VI^^10. Catchwords in center of lower margin.
Written in humanistic cursive script by one person; some marginal
and interlinear glosses on first two satires.
Spaces left for initials and headings.
Binding: s. xix-xx. Vellum case.
Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century. "Padoua
1678" on inside flap of front cover; inscription on f. 1r "del Conte
Jacomo di Sterpeto [?]". Presented to Yale in 1936 by Thomas E. Marston
(bookplate).
secundo folio: Cum leno
Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2254, no. 72.
Barbara A. Shailor