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Beinecke MS 353 Italy, s. XV^^med
Paulus de Sancta Maria, Scrutinium Scripturarum, etc.
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1. ff. 1r-8r [Table of contents for art. 3, written in red throughout:]
Hec tabula est in libro qui dicitur Scrutinium scripturarum Editum ad
conuincendum induratam perfidiam Iudeorum...Primum capitulum continet quod non
solum Iudei...sentiendum est et ibidem huiusmodi tractatus in laude diuina
finitur. Amen. Finis Tabule.
2. f. 8v (a) Iudei non sunt cogendi ad fidem quam tamen si inuiti
susceperint cogendi sunt retinere...blasfemetur et fides quam
susceperunt uilis ac
contemptibilis habeatur, leo papa episcopis. [L]icet [text ends incomplete?
following line and a half blank]; (b) [Q]ui sincera intentione extraneos a
christiana religione ad fidem cupiunt rectam...liberam habeant obseruandi
celebrandique licentiam. xlv. di _ _ _[sic]
Passages concerning the conversion of Jews to Christianity;
(a) unidentified; (b) Letter of Pope Gregory I to Pascasius, bishop of Naples;
MGH Epistolae v. 2 (Berlin, 1899) Epistola 13.15, p. 388.
3. ff. 9r-201v Scrutamini scripturas in quibus putatis uitam eternam habere
et ille sunt que testimonium perhibent de me...homo christus yhesus veritas est
sine fallacia bonitas sine malitia felicitas sine miseria. Cui honor et gloria
in secula seculorum. Amen. Explicit 2^^a pars Dialogi et Finis Huius
Salutiferi Operis. Deo Gratias.
Paulus de Sancta Maria (of Burgos; 1353-1435), Scrutinium Scripturarum;
printed by Johann Schall (Mantua, 1475), Hain-Copinger 10765, and
thereafter.
Parchment (hair side quite yellow), ff. ii (paper) + 201 + ii (paper), 281 x
206 (190 x 128) mm. Written in 35 long lines; single vertical bounding lines
and occasionally double vertical bounding lines, full length. Ruled in hard
point or lead, often with vertical lines ruled on one side of parchment and
horizontal on the other.
I-XIX^^10, XX^^12 (-12, a blank). Catchwords under written space.
Arts. 1 and 3 written below top line in fere-humanistic script by a single
scribe who frequently erased and rewrote the text; art. 2 added in another hand.
Some later marginalia.
Crudely executed initial and full border on f. 9r: gold initial,
11-line, on blue rectangular ground, with white vine-stem ornamentation
highlighted in green; border in gold, blue, pale pink, mauve and green,
consisting of swirling acanthus leaves, flowers, birds, gold dots and
leaves around bar border in upper and outer margin, and with putti supporting
laurel wreath (arms effaced) in lower margin. One penwork initial of pathetic
quality, 8-line, red and blue divided body accompanied by red and blue penwork
designs, on f. 125v. Table of contents (art. 1) and headings throughout, in
bright red. Remains of notes to rubricator.
Binding: s. xviii-xix. Red goatskin, with green, gold-tooled labels.
Yellow edges.
Written possibly in Naples or Southern Italy, in the middle of the 15th century
according to A. C. de la Mare; early modern provenance unknown. Belonged to
Irvin Davis (d. ca. 1961). Acquired from Menno Hertzberger in 1968 by Edwin J.
Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
secundo folio: [table, f. 2] mentionem
[text, f. 10] intentio
Barbara A. Shailor