YALE UNIVERSITY
BEINECKE RARE BOOK AND MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY
GENERAL COLLECTION OF RARE BOOKS AND
MANUSCRIPTS
PRE-1600 MANUSCRIPTS
Beinecke MS 209 Germany, s. XV^^2
Precepts for Students
1. ff. 1r-8r Compendiosa de modo studendi preceptio. Prefatio. [E]x
re profecto discipulorum videbitur esse si ad capescendas bonarum
artium disciplinas debitum legendi modum ac...[text:] Preceptum
primum.
Cum omnium virtutum dux sit Religio et omnis sapientie...[concludes
after 34 precepts:] Oderunt peccare mali formidine pene. Oderunt
peccare boni virtutis amore.
Accompanied by extensive marginal annotations including references
to Bernard, Seneca, Boethius, Quintilian, Augustine, Jerome, Plato, and
Cicero.
2. ff. 8v-10v Carmen Statuta Comprehendens modumque viuendi honestum
scolarium siue studentum. [E]xpedit in cunctis mores seruare decentes.
Nam solet auctorem mos redimire bonus...Primum statutum mandat
latinitatem a scolaribus obseruandam...[concludes after 7 statutes:]
huic puto suspensor iure magister erit.
Interlinear and marginal glosses (ending with the 5th precept).
Paper (watermarks: unidentified bull's head buried in gutter), ff.
i (contemporary paper) + 10 + i (contemporary paper), 206 x 145 (140 x
83) mm. Written in ca. 18 long lines or lines of verse. Vertical
rulings delineate main text as well as an inner and outer column for
commentary; frame-ruled in hard point.
Composed of a single gathering of 12 leaves.
Written by one scribe in a small running script, with a more
formal style of writing for headings.
Some loss of marginalia due to trimming.
Binding: s. xx. Fragment of a 16th century choirbook from Germany
(four-line staves, in red; square notes, in black).
Written in Germany in the second half of the 15th century; early
provenance unknown. Acquired from Goldschmidt's in 1927 by the Rev.
Anson Phelps Stokes (bookplate) who sold it to Yale in 1956.
Bibliography: De Ricci, v. 2, p. 2276, no. 3; Faye and Bond, p. 41, no.
209.
Barbara A. Shailor