YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
PRE-1600 MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 146 Italy, ca. 1480
Theological and Pastoral Tracts, etc. (in Lat. and It.)
The manuscript is composed of many selections and excerpts, the
organization of which is not always clear. In at least two cases the
same passage is repeated (f. 69r-v and f. 76r-v; f. 86v and f. 91v).
1. ff. 1r-11v Postquam aliqua dicta sunt de trinitate dei de
creatura mundi et corruptela peccati restat nunc aliqua breuiter dicere
de incarnatione uerbi...suam liberalissimam prouidentiam et
prouidentissimam largitatem. Amen.
Leaf with text missing between ff. 6-7; Bonaventure,
Breviloquium
Bk. 4; Stegmueller, Sent. 117.
2. ff. 12r-16v Hora est iam nos de somno surgere ad Ro. 13. Volentes
aliqua de uirgine gloriosa predicare ab eius immaculata conceptione
sumemus...Hora est igitur ut a tanta cecitate surgamus.
3. ff. 17r-29r Circha precepta decalogi secundum Alexandrum de
ales.
Circa primum notandum quod preceptum est iussio uel imperium faciendi
aliquid uel non faciendi...sicut dicit dominus Diligens proximum tuum
sicut teipsum.
4. ff. 29r-53r Incipiunt quedam questiones super euangelia
Quadragesime. Feria quarta cinerum. Cum Ieiunatis nolite fieri sicut
ypocrite tristes [Matt. 6. 16]. Hic queritum inter doctores theologicos
Quid sit maioris meriti...et de hoc habetur in euangelio hodierno.
Expliciunt questiones introductionum euangelorum x1^^me. Finis.
5. f. 53r-v Epistola Sancti Ambroxij. Dilecte fili dilige lacrimas
noli differe eas...Vide quisquis hec legis ne quod legendo respicis
uiuendo contemnas finis.
De novae vitae institutione usually attributed to Valerius Abbas
Bergidensis or to Ambrose, as in this manuscript. See PL 17. 749-52 and
M. C. Diaz y Diaz, Index scriptorum latinorum medii aevi
hispanorum (Salamanca, 1959) v. 1, no. 383.
6. ff. 53v-55r Incipit quoddam interrogatorium seu confessionale
uulgari sermone pro paruulis et alta non ascendentibus. Incomenza vno
interrogatorio confessionale in uulgare per satisfare a le persone
ydiote et simplice [followed by 10 regulae and a concluding
section]...Da tu la decima o sey da cordio [?] con lori. Se tu
aparechiato quando fusti rechiesto.
7. ff. 55r-76v Incipiunt interrogationes et primo circha precepta
decalogi. A tu amato dio superiore ogni cosa. A tu amato piu te
medesimo che dio...et quantum ad haec dicitur libera nos a malo et
cetera....
8. ff. 77r-92r Various passages from the Bible and patristic
excerpts (e.g., Cyprianus de uoluntate dei ait: Voluntas dei est quam
christus fecit et docuit, humilitas in conuersatione stabilitas in
fide...).
9. f. 92v Three medical prescriptions: Tempore pestis utantur hijs
pillulis [Thorndike and Kibre, 1558], Pro splene, Electuarium pro
catharo. ff. 93r-96r ruled, but blank
10. f. 96v Aue maria immaculata e sancta/ Dolce madre del fiolo de
dio/....
Unidentified hymn to the Virgin, in It.
11. ff. 97r-99v Various short recipes, in Lat. and It.: Aqua
perfectissima da ochij, Pillule imperiales, Pillule subtiles et salse,
Puluis ad sustinendum catharum, Pro voce fortificanda et restauranda,
Ad retinendum et ad ingrosandum catarum, Pillule confortantes stomacum,
Pillule bicherchie que tenentur sub lingua...[4 recipes].
12. f. 99r-v Four short epistolary forms: 1. Recomendatio; 2. Forma
cedule discreti fiendi; 3. Forma littere discreti; 4. Forma obedientie
guardianorum.
Items 1-3 mention the place "S. Maria apud Castrumarquatum;" no. 3
also gives the date 1480. The letters seem to have been written for
Franciscan use.
Paper (watermarks: unidentified bird above mountain [?], trimmed),
ff. ii (contemporary parchment) + 100 + ii (contemporary parchment),
150 x 97 (100 x 68) mm. Written in 32 long lines; single vertical
bounding lines; ruled in lead.
I^^10 (-7, a stub foliated 6a), II^^2, III-XI^^10. Catchwords along
inner ruling.
Written in a tiny humanistic script with many abbreviations, by a
single person who added to the volume at various times.
Headings and paragraph marks, in red, for ff. 1r-92r.
Binding: wanting. Marks of wide sewing tapes and fastening straps
on first and last flyleaves. Sewn on one leather and two tawed slit
straps.
Written in Italy for Franciscan use probably at the
"Castrumarquatum" (Arqua? There are several Italian towns by this name)
mentioned in art. 12. No. 21 in the collection of W. H. H. Newman,
Buffalo, New York (label on f. i recto; bookplate). Presented to Yale
in 1941 by Martin Hago.
secundo folio: Circa uerbum
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 35, no. 146.
Barbara A. Shailor