Beinecke MS 112                                                        Italy, s. XV^^2
Juvenal; Persius

     1. ff. 1r-74v    Semper ego auditor tantum numquam ne reponam/ Vexatus
     totiens rauci teseide codri/...Pytagoras cunctis animalibus abstinuit
     qui/ Tanquam homine et uentri indulsit non esse legumen. Telos Deo
     Gratias.

          Juvenal, Satirae I-XVI (with XVI preceding XV); W. V. Clausen,
     ed., OCT (1959) pp. 37-175. For the argumenta of Guarino of Verona see
     S. Endlicher, Catalogus codicum philologicorum latinorum Bibliothecae
     Palatinae Vindobonensis (Vienna, 1836) p. 116 and Walther,
     Initia 10770.

     2.    The satires are followed (on f. 74v) by eight lines of
     unidentified text in alternating lines of red and black: Voma
     superstitio egipti seruasque nefanda...Tempora reprehendens iniqua
     ducesque.

     3. ff. 75r-87v    Flacci Persii uolterrani satirarum prima foeliciter
     incipit. Nec fonte labra prolui caballino/ Nec in bicipiti somniasse
     parnaso/...Iam decies redit in rugam depinge ubi sistam/ Inuentus
     crisippe tui finitor acerui. Amen. Telos. Flacci Persii satirarum
     ultima foeliciter explicit.

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

     4. ff. 88r-89v    Miscellaneous notes in various hands,
     including selections from Horace, an epitaph for Persius, and
     identifications of mythological characters (e.g., Prometheus et
     Epimetheus fratres fuerunt).

          Paper (watermarks: similar to Briquet Enclume 5961 and
     unidentified horn) and parchment (ff. 1, 10), ff. ii (paper) + 89 + ii
     (paper), 215 x 145 (151 x 70) mm. Written in 26 lines of verse; double
     vertical bounding lines, full across; ruled in hard point.
          I^^10, II-VII^^12, VIII^^8 (-8). Catchwords are located in lower
     margin; some are enclosed in a rectangle or surrounded by flourishes.
          Written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe. Marginal and
     interlinear glosses in several contemporary hands.
     Argumenta of Guarino
     of Verona in red and simple initials in red or black at beginning of
     most satires. First letter of each line stroked with red.
          Many waterstains that sometimes affect the text.
          Binding: s. xix. Vellum stays. Half vellum case with blue paper
     sides.

          Written in Italy in the second half of the 15th century; early
     provenance unknown. Belonged to Henry Allen (acquired ca. 1800;
     bookplate); Samuel Allen sale (London, 30 January 1920, no. 71). Bought
     from C. A. Stonehill by Thomas E. Marston, who presented it to Yale in
     1946.

     secundo folio: Aut diomedeas

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 31, no. 112.

     Barbara A. Shailor