Beinecke MS 176                                                          Italy, s. XV
Juvenal(fragment)

          //Ostrea callebat primo deprendere morsu/...Contennunt mediam
     temeraria lina charybdim//

     Satires 4.142-5.102; W. V. Clausen, ed., OCT (1959) pp. 65-69.

          Parchment, ff. 2 (bifolium), 237 x 159 (157 x 100) mm. Written in
     29 lines of verse; double [?] bounding lines ruled in hard point;
     horizontal rulings in ink; remains of prickings at top and bottom of
     folio.
          Written in a neat humanistic hand.
          The bifolium was removed from a binding for it is rubbed, stained,
     creased, and mutilated.

          Written in Italy in the 15th century; early provenance unknown.
     Purchased from Maggs (1931) by Thomas E. Marston who presented it to
     Yale in 1937.

     Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 1, p. 155, no. 1; Faye and Bond, p. 36, no.
     176.

     Barbara A. Shailor