Beinecke MS 313               Italy, 1465
Cicero; Plutarch, etc.

1. ff. 1r-26r Quintus Mutius Augur Sceuola multa narrare...nihil
amicitia praestabilius esse putetis. [in a different hand:] Vale. Finis De
amicitia. f. 26v blank

     Cicero, De amicitia; K. Simbeck, ed., Teubner fasc. 47 (1917)
pp. 46c-86c.

2. ff. 27r-38v Animaduerti Brute saepe Catonem auunuculum tuum...sed etiam
inopes et pauperes ex[added above: is]timandi sunt. Vale. f. 39r blank

     Cicero, Paradoxa stoicorum; C. F. W. Mueller, ed., Teubner (1898)
pp. 197-213.

3. ff. 39v-63v O tite si quid ego adiuto...re experti probare possitis.
Explicit liber Marci Tullij Ciceronis de senectute. f. 64r blank

     Cicero, De senectute; K. Simbeck, ed., Teubner fasc. 47 (1917)
pp. 3c-43c.

4. ff. 64v-70v Cum in Africam venissem...ego somno solutus sum. Explicit
opus M.T.C. de somnio scipionis. Finis.

     Cicero, Somnium Scipionis; K. Ziegler, ed., De re publica,
Teubner fasc. 39 (1955) pp. 126-36.

5. ff. 71r-101r Studeo mi pater latine ex te audire...nullum maius
expecto. finis. [in a different hand:] De partitionibus liber explicit [crossed
out: 1511] 24 nouembris 1465. f. 101v blank

     Cicero, Partitiones oratoriae; A. S. Wilkins, ed., Rhetorica v. 2
OCT (1903).

6. ff. 102r-104v Ad diuos aduento caste...nouandem in legibus. finis.
f. 105r blank

     Cicero, excerpts from De legibus; II. 8. 19 - 10. 23 and III. 2. 5 - 5.
12; C. F. W. Mueller, ed., Teubner (1905) pt. 4, v. 2, pp. 411-14, 433-37.
Not listed in P. L. Schmidt, Die Ueberlieferung von Ciceros Schrift "De
Legibus" in Mittelalter und Renaissance, Studia et Testimonia Antiqua
10 (Munich, 1974).

7. ff. 105v-106v [M]aiores nostros Angele mi suauissime non admirari...
Plutarchum ipsum audiamus.

     Dedicatory epistle of Guarino da Verona to Angelo Corbinelli; printed
by Christopher Valdarfer (Venice, ca. 1471) f. 1r-v, Copinger 5984
(II); R. Sabbadini, ed., Epistolario di Guarino Veronese (Venice, 1915)
pp. 15-16.

8. ff. 106v-128r [Q]uid nam est quod de ingenuorum educatione liberorum
dicere quispiam posset...At humano effici posse constat ingenio. finis.
Deo gratias amen amen. Finis. f. 128v blank

     Plutarch, De liberis educandis, Latin translation by Guarino da Verona;
see Valdarfer ed. cited above, ff. 1v-15r.

9. ff. 129r-141r Note litterarum more vetusto. [C]onrandus dei gratia
Romano omnibus inuicte perpetuo Petrus disconus...X .x./ Y .L./
Z  .Duomilia./ Expliciut [sic] littere numerales more uetusto.

     Petrus Diaconus, De notis litterarum more romano; the introduction
follows closely the text printed by Ioannes Tacuinus (Venice, 1525),
but the manuscript gives fewer abbreviations, and they are not arranged
alphabetically; ff. 140r-141r of the manuscript, with sections De numero
litterarum and Metra, do not appear in the printed version.

10. ff. 141r-142v Valrii [sic] probi iuris notarum liber. Est
etiam circa prescribendas uel paucioribus litteris...Q. A. M. quemadmodum.
Q. M. quomodo uel quo magis. I.S. iudicium solui.

     Marcus Valerius Probus, Iuris notarum liber, excerpts;  H. Keil, ed.,
Grammatici latini (Leipzig, 1864) v. 4, pp. 271-75.

11. ff. 143r-148v Cathologus romanorum imperatorum a Iulio Caesare huc
usque. [I]ulias [sic] caesar primus Romanorum imperator Annis tribus
mensibus. .vii imperauit...Federicus .iii. dux Austrie nepos alberti eligitur
in imperatorem concorditer in francfordia die .iii. februarij. MCCCCXL cum magno
omnium principium alemanie applausu.

     Anonymous catalogue of Roman emperors, from Julius Caesar to Frederick
III (elected 1440).  The entries give all or some of the following information:
when the emperor came to power, his relationship to the previous emperor,
length of rule, age at death, place of death.  The same text occurs in Berlin,
Collection Hamilton 254, ff. 91-94.

12. ff. 149r-150v [Q]ui laudant sanctitatem tuam beatissime pater
opus...ad interpretationem ipsam accedamus.

     Leonardo Bruni, Preface to tr. of Plato's Phaedo; H. Baron, ed.,
Leonardo Bruni Aretino humanistisch-philosophische Schriften in
Quellen zur Geistgeschichte des Mittelalters und Renaissance, Bd. 1
(Leipzig, 1928) pp. 3-4.

13. ff. 150v-191v [I]pse affuisti o Phedon a die qua Socrates...non
igitur et tu assentieris. [crossed out by a later hand:] Si quis//
3 leaves cut out following f. 191

     Plato, Phaedo, tr. Leonardo Bruni, ending defectively. On the
translation, see E. Berti, "La traduzione di Leonardo Bruni del Fedone di
Platone ed un codice greco della Bibliotheca Bodmeriana," Museum Helveticum
35 (1978) pp. 125-48.

14. ff. 192r-195v M. T. C. De optimo genere oratorum. [O]ratorum
genera esse dicuntur tanquam poetarum...Eschinem ipsum latine dicentem
audiamus. M. T. C. De arpinatis de optimo genere oratorum liber explicit.

     Cicero, De optimo genere oratorum; A. S. Wilkins, ed., Rhetorica
v. 2 OCT (1903).

15. ff. 196r-207v M. T. C. De essentia mundi. [M]ulta sunt in
achademicis nostris conscripta contra phisicos...neque datum est immortalium
deorum concessu neque munere dabitur. M. T. C. De essentia mundi explicit
M^^o CCCC^^o LXV.  4 leaves cut out after f. 207

     Cicero, Timaeus; W. Ax, ed., Teubner fasc. 46 (1965)
pp. 154b-187b.

     Parchment, ff. i (paper) + 207 + ii (paper), 203 x 135 (142 x 77) mm.
Written in 25 long lines. Ruled in hard point on the hair side before folding,
single vertical and horizontal bounding lines, full length and full width.
     I-XII^^10, XIII^^8, XIV-XIX^^10, XX^^6 (-4 through 6), XXI^^10, XXII^^10
(-7 through 10). Catchwords centered
below written space, verso, within a pattern of dots and flourishes.
     Written in humanistic bookhand below the top line by two persons:
Scribe 1, ff. 1r-128r and 149r-191v; Scribe 2, ff. 129r-148v and 192r-207v.
     Initials, 5- to 2-line, ff. 1r, 39v, 71r (space for additional initials
on ff. 105v and
149r), gold edged in black with white-vine ornament, against crimson,
green and light blue; white-vine extensions in upper and inner margins. On f.
1r a coat of arms (see Provenance) in lower margin surrounded by a wreath with
a ribbon. 3-, 2-, and 1-line initials in red or blue. Rubrics throughout.
     Water damage has obliterated several words in the lower left of f. 1r.
     Binding: s. xvii-xviii.  Brown/red calf, gold-tooled.  Paste decorated
edges. On spine, stamped in gold but nearly effaced: "Ciceronis et aliorum
varia. MSS 1465."

Written in 1465 in Italy, perhaps in Rome according to A. Derolez; the date
is given in the original hand on f. 207v,
and repeated by a later hand on f. 101r.  Arms of original owner
(unidentified) on f. 1r:  party per fess azure and argent, a lion rampant
countercharged, holding a fleur-de-lis or. Note on f. 70v reads: "Ex
Biblioteca Dugganiana 1761." Collection of Ernest H. Alton (bookplate inside
front cover). Purchased from L. C. Witten in 1964 by the Yale Library
Associates. 

secundo folio: existimem. Sed

Barbara A. Shailor