Beinecke MS 179                                                          Italy, s. XV
Cicero, etc.

     I.1. ff. 1r-30v    Mar. Tulius Cicero de amicitia. [Q]uintus mucius
     Augur sceuola multa narrare de C. lelio socero suo memoriter et iocunde
     solebat...Nam quid ego de studijs cognoscendi semper aliquid// f. 31r-
     v, a later addition, blank

     De amicitia; K. Simbeck, ed., Teubner (1917) pp. 46c-85c. Text ends
     abruptly in 26.104; also lacking a small portion of 9.32 [scribal
     error?].

     II.2. ff. 32r-53v    Marci tulii ciceronis de senectute. [O] tite si
     quid ego adiuto curam ueleuasso [sic] que nunc te coquit...ut ea que ex
     me audiuistis re experti probare positis. M. T. Ciceronis. De senectute
     Liber explicit Feliciter. ff. 54r-63v blank, except for a few notes

     De senectute; Simbeck, op. cit., pp. 3c-43c.

     III.3. ff. 64r-90v    Cicero meo ut cernis et ipsum. [?] Cicero Lucio
     Uenturio suo salutem. collegi ea que pluribus modis dicerentur quo
     uberior promptiorque esset oratio...[3 columns] Vociferatur/ uitare
     uellatur/ Operitur prestolatur. Finis. f. 91r-v blank; f. 92r-v
     miscellaneous quotations

          Pseudo-Cicero, Synonyma; GKW, v. 6, nos. 7031-40.

     IV.4. f. 93r-v    Per leonardum Aretinum Basilii Prologus et S.
     Collucio. [E]go tibi hunc librum Colucij ex media vt aiunt Grecia
     delegi...in quo animaduerte queso quanta grauitas sit. Vale.

          Dedicatory epistle of Leonardo Bruni to Coluccio Salutati; H.
     Baron, ed., Leonardo Bruni Aretino humanistisch-philosophische
     Schriften (Leipzig, 1928) pp. 99-100.

     5. ff. 94r-105v    [Heading in a later hand:] Diui Basilij Capadocie
     Aepiscopi ad Nepotes suos de liberalibus studijs et de ingenuis moribus
     liber. [text:] Multa filij sunt que me hortantur ad ea uobis
     consulenda...quod uos nunc non paciamini recta consilia aspernentes.
     Finis.

          Basil, De libris gentilium legendis, Lat. tr. of Leonardo Bruni;
     GKW, v. 3, nos. 3700-18.

          Composed of four separate manuscripts:
          I. Paper (watermarks: unidentified arrow, much worn) ff. 30 + i
     (f. 31, modern paper, tipped in), 209 x 145 (134 x 78) mm. Written in
     24 long lines; single horizontal and double vertical bounding lines;
     ruled very faintly in hard point. I-III^^10. Clumsy humanistic cursive
     by a single scribe. Spaces left for headings and decorative initials;
     some letters stroked in red.
          II. Paper (watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Tete de boeuf
     14803 and unidentified mountain), ff. 32 (numbered 32-63), 210 x 145
     (130 x 75) mm. Written in 27 long lines; double vertical and horizontal
     bounding lines, full across; ruled in hard point. I-II^^10, III^^12.
     Catchwords in center of lower margin. Inelegant fere-humanistic script.
     Heading and one plain initial in red (later additions?).
          III. Paper (watermarks: similar to Briquet Fleche 6285), ff. 28
     (numbered 64-91), 210 x 144 (136 x 105) mm. Arranged in 3 or 4 columns
     of 23 lines; single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full
     across. Ruled in lead; some prickings in upper and lower margins.
     I-II^^10, III^^8. Catchwords in center of lower margin. Italian script.
     Initial strokes, in red, for ff. 64-83.
          IV. Paper (watermarks: unidentified balance in a circle), ff. 14
     (numbered 92-105), 210 x 143 (124 x 85) mm. Written in 22-23 long
     lines; double vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full across;
     ruled in hard point. A single gathering of 14 leaves, written in an
     angular humanistic bookhand.
          Binding: Date? Resewn on three tawed, slit straps laid in beech
     boards bevelled on the inside. Quarter covered in dark brown goatskin.
     Two clasp-and-catch fastenings. The boards do not fit the bookblock
     very well, the off-printing on them does not match the writing on the
     first and last leaves, and the marginal notes have been partially cut
     away. Edges of paper tinged with red.

          Written in Italy at various times in the 15th century; all four
     sections owned at the end of that century or the beginning of the next,
     by an individual whose notes, in a careful humanistic cursive, appear
     throughout. Unidentified circular label with perforated edge on spine:
     "S II J/ Cicero/ MS XV/ 4^^o 69503". Purchased in 1949 from C. A. Stonehill
     by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate); his gift to Yale in 1952.

     secundo folio: [f. 2] [dispu]tantem Quia
          [f. 33] obripit
          [f. 65] Adiscite
          [f. 94] Multa filij

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 37, no. 179.

     Barbara A. Shailor