Beinecke MS 144                                                      Italy, s. XV^^3/4
Tacitus

     1. ff. 1r-91v    [N]am ualerium asiaticum bis consulem fuisse quondam
     adulterum eius credidit...prae lentitudine exitus graues cruciatus
     afferente obuersis in demetrium [in margin:] Deficit multum.

     Annales XI-XVI; E. Koestermann, ed., Teubner, v. 1 (1936) pp. 200-382.

     2. ff. 92r-205v    [I]nitium mihi operis seruius galba iterum T.
     uinius. consules erunt. Nam post conditam urbem octingentos...Arma in
     germania mouit quae mutianus in syria aponius in moesia flauianus in
     parma.

     Historiae I-V; E. Koestermann, op. cit., v. 2 (1936) pp. 1-219. Note on
     front flyleaf "Codex continet verba (Historiae. I. 67-75, et I. 86 -
     II. 2) quae desunt in Mediceo 68.2."

          Parchment, ff. i (parchment) + 205 + i (parchment), 310 x 229 (206
     x 141) mm. Written in 26 long lines; double vertical and horizontal
     bounding lines, full across; ruled in hard point on hair side.
          I-XX^^10, XXI^^5 (structure uncertain). Catchwords perpendicular to
     text between inner bounding lines.
          Written by a single scribe in an elegant humanistic script.
          Spaces left for decorative initials and headings.
          Binding: s. xix. Vellum case with brown labels on spine.

          Written by a scribe who was probably active in Naples in the third
     quarter of the 15th century, according to A. C. de la Mare; early
     provenance unknown. Discovered in an unidentified location by Joseph
     Martini of Lugano (notes inside front cover and on first flyleaf).
     Purchased by Branford College (Yale University) in 1940.

     secundo folio: [sen]tentiam et scipio

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 34, no. 144.

     Barbara A. Shailor