Beinecke MS 380               Italy, s. XV^^2
Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum, etc.

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1.  ff. 1r-3r Quatuor virtutum speties multorum sapientum sententijs
diffinite sunt...aut deficientem puniat ignauiam.

     Excerpts (De prudentia, De fortitudine, De continentia, De iustitia)
from Martin of Braga, Formula honestae vitae, a work often
attributed incorrectly to Seneca.  C. W. Barlow, ed., Martini Episcopi
Bracarensis opera omnia (New Haven, 1950) pp. 237-50.

2.  ff. 3r-10v De sapientia Salamonis.  Cani sunt sensus hominis...;
(f. 6r) Expliciunt prouerbia Salamonis.  Et sequunt [sic] ipsius
Salamonie [sic]
notabilia...obsequio militie uobis subditi sunt.  ff. 11r-12v ruled, but
blank

     Salomonis dicta; excerpts concerning wisdom, including quotes from
Seneca, Book of Wisdom, etc.

3.  ff. 13r-198v Sanctorum Doctorum ac etiam aliorum quamuis paganorum
rationi tamen congruentia dicta memoria et auctoritate digna ad instructionem
fidelium ex locis plurimis ut flores collecta feliciter incipiunt.  [text:]
Vix uidi continentem quem non uidi abstinentem.  [added in margin, in red:
Ambrosius]...Nec unde certe nec quo pergitis meministis F. Petrarca libro
secundo capitulo de duro itinere.  ff. 199r-202v blank

     Thomas of Ireland, Manipulus florum (I. T. Gelardi, ed., Monteregali,
1858); cf. R. H. and M. Rouse, Preachers, Florilegia and Sermons:  Studies
on the "Manipulus florum" of Thomas of Ireland (Toronto, 1979) p. 364 and
Appendix 4 on p. 246.  In the lower margins are numerous quotes from Petrarch's
De remediis utriusque fortunae.

4.  ff. 203r-265r De virtutis inopia. F. Petrarca.  At virtutis inops sum
verum damnum iustus dolor...proprius accessisse nostri dixere philosophi.  ff.
265v-266v blank

     Excerpts from Petrarch, De remediis utriusque fortunae; cf. N. Mann,
"The Manuscripts of Petrarch's De remediis:  A Checklist," Italia medioevale
e umanistica 14 (1971) p. 82, no. 177.

5.  ff. 267r-274r [Title, in a later hand:] Isidori Opusculum de temporibus.
[text:]  [B]reue[m] temporum pergo nationes [sic] et Regna Primus et
nostris Iulius africanus...momenta quia pater posuit in sua potestate.  Finis.

     Isidore, Chronicon; PL 83.1017-56.  Text missing between ff. 272-273
(Nerva to Honorius) and most sections abbreviated.

6.  ff. 274v-281v Miscellaneous definitions and etymologies, mostly of
Greek words, e.g.:  Philosophia cum id est latino et unico L dici potest
latine amor sapientie....  ff. 280v-281r ruled, but blank

7.  ff. 282r-285v [Table of contents, in another hand; ends with colophon:]
In Dei nomine.  Amen.  Anno eiusdem 1495 die X secunda decembris.  Explicit
tabula istius libri qui vocatur flores collectae auri feliciter finit, etc.  Qui
scripsit scribat semper cum domino viuat/ Qui me furatur vel reddat
vel moriatur.  Amen.

8.  f. 285v [Title:] Sancti Vitalis verba [text:] Advenis optatus presul
celeberime tandem/....

     Six unidentified verses.

     Paper (watermarks similar to Briquet Huchet 7693), ff. iv (paper) + 285
(early ink foliation 1-212, 214-245, 247-274, 277-285, 290-293; modern pencil
foliation 1-285) + iv (paper), 215 x 145 (ca. 127 x 80) mm.  Folios 1-12 written
in 33 long lines, with single vertical bounding lines full length in lead and
guide-lines for text in ink; ff. 13-125 written in ca. 26 long lines,
frame-ruled in lead; ff. 126-272 written in 26 long lines ruled as ff. 1-12; ff.
273-281 written in ca. 28 long lines, single outer vertical bounding lines in
hard point, single inner in lead.  Prickings in all but inner margins.  ff.
282-285 not ruled.
     I-XXIII^^12, XXIII^^8 (+1 leaf added at end?). Catchwords perpendicular to
text on inner bounding line.
     Written by a single scribe in various styles of italic script;
heavy annotations by the scribe and later hands.
     Several crude initials:  f. 1r, 4-line gold initial on blue ground, infilled
red, and 3-line red initial on gold ground; on f. 2r, 5-line red initial on blue
ground; f. 72v, 4-line red initial on green ground with some flourishes and gold
dots, infilled blue.  Initials (2- and 1-line), names of authors (added in
margins), paragraph marks and headings in pale red.
     Binding:  s. xix.  Quarter bound in brown, diced calf with a gold-tooled
title on spine:  "Miscellanea di Seneca, Petrarcha e d'altri."  Orange,
leather-grained paper sides.  Rebacked.

Written in Italy before 1495 (see art. 7); early modern provenance unknown.
Belonged
to the Visconti-Litta library and to the Trivulzio library (according to note
of F. von Schennis, f. ii recto; not located in catalogues).  Collection of
Friedrich von Schennis, Swiss-born artist (1852-1918; bookstamps on ff. ii
recto, 266v, 281v, 285v).  Belonged to A. N. L. Munby, from whom it was acquired
by H. P. Kraus. Purchased from Kraus by Thomas E. Marston (bookplate) in 1959;
his gift to the Beinecke Library in 1969.

secundo folio:  esse genus

Bibliography:  Faye and Bond, p. 92, no. 244 (while in the collection of
T. E. Marston).
     D. Dutschke, Census of Petrarch Manuscripts in the United States,
Censimento dei Codici Petrarcheschi 9 (Padova, 1986) pp. 192-94, no. 76.

Barbara A. Shailor