YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
PRE-1600 MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 197 Germany, s. XV^^2
Petrarch; Pope Pius II
1. ff. 1r-7r Incipit epistola domini francisci petrarche poete
laureati Ad dominum iohannem florentinum poetam de constantia griseldis
mulieris maxime constantie et pacientie in preconium omnium laudabilium
mulierum. Librum tuum quem nostro materno eloquio vt opinor olim
iuuenis edidisci...rusticana hec muliercula passa est. Explicit
epistola domini ffrancisci petrarche laureati poete ad dominum Iohannem
florentinum poetam de constancia Griseldis mulieris maxime constancie
et paciencie in preconium omnium laudabilium mulierum.
Petrarch, Boccacii Griseldis historia (Rer. senil., 18, 3); I. B.
Severs, The Literary Relationships of Chaucer's Clerkes Tale (New
Haven, 1942) pp. 254-92.
2. ff. 7v-10r Incipit Epistola Enee siluij poete Laureati siue pij
pape secundi de amoris remedio. Eneas siluius etc. Ipolito mediolanensi
salutem plurimam dicit. Querebaris mecum nocte preterita quod amori
operam dares...quod tibi damno est auertere stude. Ex uiena secundo
calendas Ianuarij Anno domini M^^o quadringencesimo quadragesimo tercio.
Explicit Epistola Enee siluij poete laureati Siue Pij pape secundi de
amoris remedio.
Pope Pius II, Epistola; R. Wolkan, ed., Der Briefwechsel des E. S.
Piccolomini in Fontes rerum austriacarum 67 (Vienna, 1912) pp. 33-39.
3. ff. 10v-14v Francisci petrarche ad nicholaum de azaiolis de
florentia magnum regni cecilie senescallum epistola. Iam tandem vir
clarissime perfidiam fides auariciam largitas et superbiam vicit
humilitas...velocior ad sedes ethereas prouolabit. Vale patrie decus ac
nostrum. Explicit ffrancisci petrarche ad Nicholaum de azaiolis de
florencia magnum regni cecilie senescallu[m] epistola. Deo gracias.
Petrarch, Famil. rerum., 12, 2; V. Rossi, ed., Le
familiari
(Florence, 1933) v. 3, pp. 5-17.
4. ff. 15r-21r Pij pape secundi Bulla retractacionum omni dudum per
eum in minoribus adhuc agentem pro consilio et Basilien. et contra
Eugenium summum pontificem scriptorum Incipit feliciter. Pius episcopus
Seruus seruorum dei delectis filijs Rectori et universitati scole
Colonien.... In minoribus agentes nondum sacris ordinibus...Iudicia
reuocamus atque omnino respuimus. Datum Rome apud sanctum
petrum.vi.Kal. Maias Millesimo quadringentesimo sexagesimo tercio. Pij
pape secundi Bulla retractationum...finit feliciter. Deo gratias
semper.
Pope Pius II, Bulla retractationum; F. Gaude, ed., Bullarum
Diplomatum et Privilegiorum (1860) v. 5, pp. 173-80.
5. ff. 21v-26v Incipit Epistola Enee poete De fortuna ad dominum
Procopium militem. Eneas Siluius poeta S. P. D. domino Procopio de
Rabeynsteyn milici litterato et prestanti. Noctu pretarita priusquam me
quieti committerem...holus Epicurei ac pictagore legumen. Ex Vienna.
Explicit epistola Enee poete. De Fortuna Ad dominum Procopium de
Rabensteyn militem.
Pope Pius II, Epistola de fortuna; Wolkan, op. cit., 61 (Vienna,
1909) pp. 343-53.
Paper (watermarks in gutter), ff. i (paper) + 26 + i (paper), 207
x 142 (166 x 93) mm. Written in 36 long lines; single vertical and
double horizontal bounding lines full across. Ruled in hard point or
lead; prickings in outer margin with two for the top lower horizontal
bounding line.
I-II^^12, III^^2.
Written by three scribes in similar styles of informal gothic
scripts (batarde influence). Scribe 1: ff. 1r-7r; 2: ff. 7v-14v; 3: ff.
15r-26v.
One calligraphic initial, f. 1r, 4-line, blue with white floral
motifs; infilled with red penwork floral designs tinted with green;
penwork trails into inner margin, with plain green dots. Four initials,
ff. 1v, 7v, 10v, 21v, red ink, 6- to 2-line. Paragraph marks in red.
Numerous capitals stroked in red; rubrics throughout; explicits
underlined in red.
Binding: s. xx. Vellum spine (verso of an unidentified manuscript)
with "Petrarcae et Aeneae Silvii Epistoles" inscribed; grey-blue paper
sides.
Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century; early
provenance unknown. Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1952 with income from
the Altschul Fund.
secundo folio: erat Itaque
Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 39, no. 197.
Barbara A. Shailor