Beinecke MS 168                                                      Italy, s. XV^^3/4
Justinus, Epitome in libros Pompeii Trogi

          ff. 1r-116v    Justini Epithomatis in libros quatraginta quatuor
     Pompeii Trogi Prohemium incipit feliciter. Cum multi ex romanis etiam
     consularis dignitatis uiri res romanas greco peregrinoque...legibus ad
     cultiorem uite usum traductum in formam prouincie redegit. Iustini
     Epithoma in quatragesimum quartum et ultimum Pompeii Trogi librum
     feliciter explicit. Deo gratias. Amen.

          F. Ruehl, ed., Teubner (1886) pp. 3-248. Portions of the text in
     the first gathering are lacking; some leaves are misbound (see
     collation).

          Parchment, ff. ii (parchment) + 116 + ii (parchment), 239 x 151
     (151 x 92) mm. Written in 29 long lines; double vertical bounding
     lines; ruled in pen.
          I^^10 (-3, 5, 6, 8; 4 and 7 misbound [now ff. 8, 9]), II^^10
     (composed of ff. 5-7, 10-16), III-XI^^10, XII^^12 (-11, 12 with no loss
     of text). Quire VI (ff. 57-66) occurs after VII (ff. 47-56). Catchwords
     perpendicular to text between inner bounding lines, on verso; remains
     of signatures (e.g., g 1, etc.), on recto.
          Written in neat italic by a single scribe who also added frequent
	marginal notes.
          One fine 6-line initial (f. 1r), gold, with white-vine ornament,
     on blue, pink, and green ground decorated with white, gold, and blue
     dots extending into side and upper margins, the vines inhabited by
     birds, insects, and putto; gold dots and brown hairsprays. A coat of
     arms in lower margin (effaced and blotted out) supported by a winged
     putto, set in ornament similar to above. Large blue capitals, 5- to 4-
     line, in blue, throughout. Headings and Roman numerals for books (in
     upper margin of recto), in red, for ff. 1r-35r.
          Binding: s. xix. Citron goatskin, gold-tooled, by C. Lewis; his
     note regarding binding, in Latin, on f. ii recto.

          Written in Florence ca. 1450-70 (we thank Dr. A. C. de la Mare for
     the attribution); effaced arms of early owner, f. 1r. Belonged to the
     Rev. Henry Drury (1778-1841); his sale (London, 3 March 1827, no. 2440)
     to Payne and Foss (Cat., 1827, Suppl. [May], no. 520; Cat., Feb. 1830,
     no. 1113). Collection of Henry Allen (bookplate; acquired ca. 1800);
     Samuel Allen sale (London, 30 Jan. 1920, no. 67) to Young. J. T. Adams
     sale (Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 1931, no. 134) to Davis and Orioli (Cat. 56,
     Feb. 1932, no. 235), from whom it was acquired by David Wagstaff
     (bookplate). Gift of Mrs. David Wagstaff in 1943.

     secundo folio: semiramide

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 1904, no. 15; Faye and Bond, p. 36,
     no. 168.
          E. T. Silk, "The Wagstaff Collection of Classical and Mediaeval
     Manuscripts," Gazette 19 (1944) p. 1.

     Barbara A. Shailor