Beinecke MS 73                                                       Germany, s. XV^^2
Juvenal, with commentary

     1. ff. 1r-61r    Semper ego auditor tantum nunquam ne reponam/ Vexatus
     tociens rauci theseide codri/...Vt qui fortis erit sit foelicissimus
     idem/ Vt laeti phaleris omnes et torquibus omnes.

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

     2. ff. 1r-61r    [Unidentified commentary on the sixteen satires of
     Juvenal, beginning at top of left hand column:] Theseus Egei athenarum
     Regis filius ex Ethra coniuge qui adolescens optante Medea...torquibus:
     torques militares erant sumpto more a gallis...followed by a few
     sentences explaining the distinctions between orator, rhetor, and
     declamator.

          This extensive commentary, written in the same hand as the text,
     draws upon some of the earlier scholia as well as works of later
     scholars; it is not listed in the CTC.

     3. ff. 61v-62r    Miscellaneous passages on the nature of tragedy,
     satire, comedy, plus a short life of Juvenal: Vita Iuuenalis aquinatis
     Satirici. Iunius Iuuenalis libertini locupletis incertum alumnus an
     filius ad mediam...nobis non est longa disputacione confirmandum.

          The Vita begins in the same manner as no. I printed by O. Jahn,
     ed. D. Iunii Iuuenalis Saturarum libri V (Berlin, 1851) p. 386.

          Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14874), ff. iii
     (paper) + 62 (foliation in lower right corner, in pencil, runs from 70-
     131) + iii (paper), 315 x 211 (127 x 85) mm. Written in 32 lines of
     verse; double vertical bounding lines, with additional narrow column in
     inner margin and two columns in outer margin for extensive commentary;
     ruled in hard point, on verso.
          I-IV^^12, V^^14. Signatures of later date on recto along lower
     margin.
          Written by a single scribe in a well spaced informal batarde for
     the main text and in a very small cramped batarde for surrounding
     notes.
          Crude illuminated initial, 9-line, on f. 1r; red initials, 3-line,
     at beginning of remaining satires. First letter of each verse stroked
     in red (ff. 13r-61r); some lines underlined in red.
          Binding: s. xx. Cloth case, bound in Yale Conservation Studio post 1973.

          Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century; early
     provenance unknown. Gift of Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) in 1936.

     secundo folio: Flaminieam

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2254, no. 73.

     Barbara A. Shailor