Beinecke MS 124                                                       Italy, s. XV^^ex
Mathias Mercader, Practica de citreria

     1. ff. i-ii ruled, but blank; ff. iii recto - vi verso    [Table of
     contents:] Prohemio dellautore a. Carta. I...Ad panno che uene ali
     occhi. a. Carta. Lxviiii. ff. vii-viii ruled, but blank

     2. ff. 1r-68r   Practica de Citreria breuemente facta ad petitione et
     Comandamento del serenissimo et inuictissimo Principe et Signore lo
     Signore Re Don Ferrando [King Ferdinand of Naples] per la diuina gratia
     Re de Sicilia Hierusalem et Hungaria Facta et composta per lo Reuerendo
     Misser Mathia Mercader Archidiacono de Valentia. [S]erenissimo et
     Inuictissimo Signore. Multe et diuerse volte per la Maiesta uostra me
     stato dicto et comandato...Facto in la uostra citta de napole lo primo
     di de Iunio M CCCC LXXV. Finis.

          Cf. J. E. Harting, Bibliotheca accipitraria (London, 1891) p. 131.

     3. ff. 68v-69r    [Two unidentified short selections:] Medicina
     experimentata per Iuliano ciurczo Ad male de chioui di falconi o daltro
     ucello. Farriti allaczare la uena della cossa che sta...Ad panno che
     uene alli occhi di falcone o de altro ucello. Pigliarite la herba
     chiamata Virga pastoris et caczaritene lo suco.... ff. 69v-72v ruled,
     but blank

          Parchment, ff. ii (paper) + 78 (numbered i-viii, modern hand; I-
     Lxviiij, by original scribe; 1-72, modern hand), 142 x 100 (82 x 61)
     mm. Written in 16 long lines; single vertical bounding lines, full
     across; lightly ruled in ink.
          I-X^^8. Catchwords perpendicular to text along inner bounding line,
     accompanied by lateral embellishments.
          Written by a single scribe in a fine round humanistic script.
          Space left for initial on f. 1r; headings, small initials, and
     entries for table of contents, in red.
          Binding: s. xviii-xix. Vellum case. Fine paste paper flyleaves and
	pastedowns.

          Written in Italy at the end of the 15th century; early provenance
     unknown. Belonged to the Rev. Walter Sneyd (booklabel; T. Phillipps,
     Catalogus manuscriptorum Magnae Britanniae [Middle Hill, 1850] p. 15,
     no. 215) who may have acquired it from Abate Matteo Luigi Canonici.
     Collection of C. F. G. R. Schwerdt (bookplate; see catalogue Hunting
     Hawking Shooting [London, 1928] v. 2, p. 346); his sale (Sotheby's, 12
     March 1946, no. 2233) to Goldschmidt's, from whom it was acquired by
     David Wagstaff (bookplate). Gift of Mr. and Mrs. David Wagstaff in
     1946.

     secundo folio: Vostra Maiesta

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 32, no. 124.
          A. Lupis, La sezione venatoria della Biblioteca Aragonese di
     Napoli...(Bari, 1975) p. 32.

     Barbara A. Shailor