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Beinecke MS 319 Italy, s. XV^^2
Treatises on Rhetoric, etc. (in Lat. and Greek)
1. f. iv recto [Title:] [Fr]anciscus philelfus Marco Aurelio Sal. pl. D.
[text:] Littere tue, quas a***s (3 or more letters obliterated by water stain)
desideraram...viginti argenti commodas minas, idest integras: Vale. ex Me.^^no
viij^^uo kl. augustas. 1476. Philelfus. f. iv verso blank
Francesco Filelfo, Epistula ad Marcum Aurelium.
2. f. 1r, lines 1-3[Greek].
[Greek].
Apollonius Dyscolus [?], Definitio verbi.
3. ff. 1r, line 4 - 2r, line 11[Greek].
[Greek].
Zonaeus, De figuris; L. Spengel, ed., Rhetores Graeci (Leipzig,
1856) v. 3, pp. 161-65.
4. ff. 2r, line 12 - 3r, line 23
[Greek].
[Greek].
Zonaeus, Figurae orationis; Spengel, op. cit., v. 3, pp. 165-70.
5. f. 3r, line 24 - 3v, line 5[Greek].
[Greek].
Anonymous, De generibus synecdochae; C. Walz, Rhetores Graeci
ex codicibus florentinis mediolanensibus...(Stuttgart, 1885) v. 8, pp.
691-92.
6. ff. 3v, line 6 - 4r, line 5[No title, text begins:]
[Greek]
Unidentified, De figuris orationis.
7. f. 4r, line 5 - 4v, line 33 [Greek].
[Greek].
Anonymous, De figuris; Spengel, op. cit., v. 3, pp. 171-73.
8. ff. 4v, line 34 - 9r, line 25 [Greek].
[Greek].
Trypho, De Tropis; Spengel, op. cit., v. 3, pp. 191-206.
9. f. 9r, line 26 - 9v, line 7 [Greek].
[Greek].
Unidentified, De passionibus verborum.
10. ff. 9v, line 7 - 10r, line 14 Unidentified notes listing inventors
of the arts and sciences, the ten orators, the Muses, divisions of the Roman
month, Egyptian and Roman names of the months, and, in a later hand, Attic
month names in Greek with Roman equivalents. f. 10v blank
11. f. 11r Ph. P. M. P. V. S. P. D. [text:] Suauissime tue
urbanissimeque littere non mediocri me...Vale vir clementissime et me ama:
qui te plurimum obseruo: ex Me.^^no viij. Kl. augustas. 1476. Philelfus.
f. 11v blank
Francesco Filelfo, Epistula ad Paulum Maurocenum.
Paper (watermarks: similar to Briquet Ciseaux 3668, Briquet Monts 11882,
and unidentified grapes), ff. iv (i = pastedown, conjugate with iv) + i (paper,
nearly contemporary; art. 1) + 10 + i (paper, nearly contemporary; art. 11) +
iv (paper,
i conjugate with iv, the back pastedown), 282 x 200 (202 x 119) mm. 35 long
lines; frame-ruled [?] in hard point.
One quire of 10.
Written by one scribe in small, very even Greek minuscule. Letters with
name of Filelfo on flyleaves at front and back are written in well-formed
italic.
Headpiece, 1-line initials and headings in faded reddish-brown.
Water stains in the upper right corner of many folios; some loss of text.
Binding: s. xx. Block printed paste paper case.
Written in Italy (see watermarks) in the second half of the 15th century;
early modern provenance unknown. Acquired from Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini
(Cat. 28/ 24) by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate), who gave it to Yale in
1960.
Barbara A. Shailor