Beinecke MS 185                                                       Italy, s. XV^^ex
Terence; Cicero (with glosses)

     1. f. 1r    Natus in ectelsis [sic] tectis carthaginis alte...leget sic
     puto cautus erit.

          Life of Terence; Walther, Initia, 11627.

     2. ff. 1r-47r    Argumentum Andrie. Sororem falso...coniugem.
	Prologus. Poeta cum primum animum ad scribendum appulit. Id sibi
	negotij...Si quid est quid restat. Vos ualete et plaudite. Ego caliopius
	recensuj. Explicita Andria.

          Terence, Andria; R. Kauer and W. M. Lindsay, eds., OCT (1926).

     3. ff. 47v-98r    Incipit Enuchus [sic]. Acta ludis megalemsibus...
     Argumentum. Meretrix adolescentem cuius...illuditur. Argumentum
     Eunuchj. Sororem falso creditam...audiente hic loquitur.
     Prologus. Si
     quisquam est qui se placere studeant bonis...Ite hac. Valete et
     plaudite. Casiopolus recensuj. Vale. Explicit Eunuchus.

          Terence, Eunuchus; Kauer and Lindsay, op. cit.

     4. ff. 98r-112v    Incipit Eaphtomtimorumenon [sic]. Acta ludis
     megalensibus...Argumentum. In milicias proficisci gnatum...Clitipho
     uxorem accipit. Prologus. Ne cuj uestrum sit mirum. Cur partes seni
     poeta dederit...Nam uos iamdudum expectat senex//

          Terence, Heautontimoroumenos; Kauer and Lindsay, op.
          cit.

          All bibliographical references in parentheses for articles 5-24
     refer to D. R. Shackleton Bailey, ed., Cicero: Epistulae ad
     familiares
     (Cambridge, 1977), 2 vols.

     5. ff. 113r-115r    Martij Tulj Ciceronis Epistolarum Liber primus
     Incipit; to P. Cornelius Lentulus Spinther (v. 1, no. 12, pp. 46-48).

     6. ff. 115r-116v    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 45, pp. 104-05).

     7. f. 116v    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 46, p. 106).

     8. ff. 117r-118r    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 47, pp. 106-07).

     9. ff. 118r-119r    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 48, pp. 107-08).

     10. f. 119r-v    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 49, p. 109).

     11. ff. 119v-122v    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no. 50, pp. 110-12).

     12. ff. 122v-124v    To C. Scribonius Curio (v. 1, no 107, pp. 199-
     200).

     13. ff. 124v-125v    To M. Caelius Rufus (v. 1, no. 90, pp. 175-76).

     14. ff. 125v-126v    To M. Caelius Rufus (v. 1, no. 85, pp. 168-69).

     15. ff. 126v-128r    To M. Caelius Rufus (v. 1, no. 95, pp. 182-83).

     16. f. 128r-v    To M. Caelius Rufus (v. 1, no. 89, p. 175).

     17. ff. 128v-129v    To Q. Minucius Thermus (v. 1, no. 115, pp. 214-
     15).

     18. ff. 129v-131r    To C. Coelius Caldus (v. 1, no. 116, pp. 215-16).

     19. ff. 131r-132v    To Ap. Claudius Pulcher (v. 1, no. 64, pp. 123-
     24).

     20. ff. 132v-133v    To Ap. Claudius Pulcher (v. 1, no. 65, pp. 124-
     25).

     21. ff. 133v-134v    To Ap. Claudius Pulcher (v. 1, no. 76, pp. 150-
     51).

     22. ff. 134v-138r    Ser. Sulpicius Rufus to Cicero (v. 2, no. 248, pp.
     108-11).

     23. ff. 138r-140r    To Ser. Sulpicius Rufus (v. 2, no. 249, pp. 111-
     13).

     24. ff. 140r-142r    To M. Claudius Marcellus (v. 2, no. 230, pp. 80-
     82)...qui essent auderem scribere nisj te intelligere considerem// f.
     142v blank

     25. ff. 143r-144v    Commentary, partly in Italian, on the first letter
     of Cicero to Lentulus Spinther (some loss due to trimming). Ego omni
     officio argumentum huius [struck out: tale est] epistola tale est
     quicum tolomeus rex egictj per prouinciales de regno...et numquam me
     sibi esse iratum ostendi ac decansa moriens ipse in*** tes
     benedictiones mihi donauit// ends at section 2, line 12 (Shackleton
     Bailey, op. cit, v. 1, no. 12, pp. 46-47).

     26. ff. 144v-145v    Short letters, first in Italian and then in Latin
     (some loss due to trimming): Scipio to Lentulus; Rex Federicus P. A. S. D. 
     (only in Italian and incomplete); Paul to John; Tulius S.D. Precetori
     [sic].

          Paper (unidentified watermarks buried in gutter include horn,
     mermaid in a circle; two distinct birds in circles similar to Briquet
     Oiseau 12203 and 12220), ff. viii (i=front pastedown; paper) + 145 + vi
     (vi=back pastedown; paper), 195 x 141 (142 x 85) mm. Written in ca. 17
     long lines; single bounding lines, sometimes full across. Ruled in
     lead; remains of prickings in outer margins.
          I-X^^10, XI^^8, XII^^8 (-5, 6, 7, 8 after f. 112), XIII^^10,
	XIV-XV^^8, XVI^^8 (-5, 6, 7, 8), XVII^^4 (-4). Catchwords in lower 
	margins.
          Written by multiple scribes in various styles of round humanistic
     and gothic scripts. One hand supplied most of the glosses on Terence
     and Cicero and the texts on ff. 143r-145v in italic.
          Crude initials mark beginning of each section; rubrics throughout;
     many letters stroked in red.
          Binding: s. xvii. Limp vellum case with title lettered in ink down
     the spine.

          Written in Italy at the end of the 15th century presumably for use
     as a school text; early provenance unknown. Round label with perforated
     edge on spine: "S II J [or F?]/ Terentius/ Cicero/ Ms. XV./ 4^^o 74457".
     Bought in 1949 from Stonehill's by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) who
     presented it to Yale in 1952.

     secundo folio: in andriam ex

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, pp. 37-38, no. 185.

     Barbara A. Shailor