Beinecke MS 194                                                          Italy, s. XV
Historia Alexandri Magni (It. tr.), etc.

     Vol. I: ff. 1r-55v    Historia Alexandri Magni compiled largely from
	the version of Archpresbyter Leo, translated into Italian. //tto[?]
     sapeuano la misura della terra distingieuano londe del mare e
     chonosceuano le chose cielestialj...finissce alexandro che ttuto e
     detto del suo nasscimento insino alla fine. ff. 33v-34r blank; f. 44
     has notes, but no text

          This is not the Italian translation found in GKW, v. 1, nos. 880-
     83.

          Vol. II: ff. 1r-59r    Leonardo Bruni, De primo bello punico,
     translated into Italian. [Preface:] //antiche auendo per materia preso a
     sscriuere della prima guerra punicha la quale per lunghezza de tenpo
     era gia dimentichata e spenta...Et che primamente ebbono nauilj. Et
     primamente chonbatterono per mare. [text:] //fue intral popolo Romano e
     i chartaginesi grandissima per mare e per terra ebbe principio da
     cierte nouita di messina...E non molto da poi tolto loro le posessionj
     chostrettj furono in gran parte il paese. E chosi fue loro fine per la
     superbia e arroghanza loro. ff. 9v-10r, 59v blank.

          GKW, v. 5, no. 5604; L. Bruni, La prima guerra punica, ed. A.
     Ceruti (Bologna, 1878) pp. 1-246.

          Composed of two volumes formerly bound as one, with original
     foliation remaining: Vol. I: ff. 1-55; Vol. II: ff. 56-115 (66
     omitted).

          Paper (sturdy; watermarks similar in design to Briquet Chapeau
     3369-70, unidentified mountain), ff. 114 (each volume has a modern
     paper flyleaf at beginning and end), 285 x 216 (ca. 225 x 160) mm. Some
     leaves are frame-ruled in lead or hard point (prickings at corners of
     written space), others have no visible guide-lines.
          Vol. I has been repaired so extensively that the original
     gatherings cannot be distinguished. Vol. II: I-V^^10, VI^^8 (+ 1 added at
     end).
          Written by a single scribe in careless notarial script.
          Blank spaces for headings that would have also included the first
     few words of text.
          Binding: s. xx. Brown decorated paper cases with blank and
     inscribed labels. (See also MSS 180 and 184.)

          Written in Italy in the fifteenth century by a scribe who
     apparently worked in some haste (blank leaves were left in the middle
     of both works) and who was producing the codex for his personal use.
     Early inscriptions in Vol. I: f. 1r, "Petrus Franciscus de Cenninis";
     in another hand the date "31 di Iuglio 1520"; f. 44r, "Lorenzzo
     Hilippilipo Strozzi" (with partial drawing of a face). Unidentified
     circular labels on spine (perforated edges): "S. III 8-9./ Alexander/
     Magnus/ s. xv/ fol. 43342" and "S. III. 8-9./ Polybius/ s. xv./ fol.
     43343". Unidentified stamp [of the Strozzi family?] with motto
     "Expecto" on f. 1r. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill and presented by Thomas
     E. Marston (bookplate) in 1951.

     secundo folio: chosi fisamente

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 39, no. 194.

     Barbara A. Shailor