Beinecke MS 384               Italy, s. XI^^4/4
Passionary (3 leaves)

1.  f. 1r-v [Lines 1-6 mutilated] //ut rex et omnis qui cum eo erant
mirantur de adolescentis animi fortitudine...Et post filios occisa est
et mater.  Hec ergo de impietatibus et de inmensis...in secula seculorum.
Amen.

     Unidentified passion of filii and mater.

2.  ff. 1v-2r Incipit passio sancti stephani episcopi.  Quod est iiii
Non. Aug.  Temporibus ualeriani et galieni multi christianorum declinantes
seuitiam tyrannorum occultabantur...[end obscured].

     Passion of St. Stephen I; BHL 7845.

3. f. 3r-v  //ne qua michi apparuit et dixit ad eum.  Vade dic luciano
presbytero vane laboras in aceruo illo...***cui est honor et***orum.  Amen.
***sio sancti Luciani.

     Passion of St. Lucianus; BHL 5008.

4. f. 3v  //ug. Incipit***Sixti episcopi. Eodem tempore***et ualerianus
pre***erunt sibi sixtum...Vsque adeo consolatus sum michi uel clero meo. ut
de profundo mortis eterne conar omnes//

     Passion of St. Sixtus II; BHL 7801.

     Parchment, 3 ff., 250 x 178 mm.  Originally 2 columns; 32 lines
preserved on ff. 1 and 3, 33 lines on f. 2; 9 mm. between lines.  Ruled in
hard point on hair side; single vertical bounding lines.  Carolingian
minuscule. Folio 1v:  decorative initial, 15-line, in red, blue, and
yellow; f. 3v:  similar decorative initial (partially trimmed) in blue, green
and yellow; both outlined in red.  (Cf. K. Berg, Studies in Tuscan
Twelfth-Century Illumination [Oslo, 1968] pls. 18, 20, 23, 24.)  Headings in
red majuscules;  first letter of each sentence filled with red.  Leaves trimmed
with considerable loss of text.

Written in Italy, probably Tuscany, in the fourth quarter of the 11th
century.  Used as paste-downs.  Presented to the Beinecke Library in 1968
by Thomas E. Marston.

Barbara A. Shailor