Beinecke MS 422               Italy, s. XV^^1
Aegidius Romanus, Capitula fidei christianae, etc.

1.  ff. 1r-4v  [In upper margin:] Sancti spiritus assit nobis gratia amen.
[preface:] In libro isto omnia continentur que pertinent et sciri debent pro
nostra salute.  Primo de fide Trinitatis...[text:] De Trinitate dei hoc
sciendum est quod in vna substantia sunt tres persone...Et sic habes xiii^^cim
articulos fidei et quilibet tenetur et//

     Aegidius Romanus, Capitula fidei christianae, ending abruptly in Ch. 15
(De duodecim articulis fidei et de Apostolis qui ipsos composuerunt).  G.
Bruni, "Rari e inediti Egidiani," Giornale critico della filosofia italiana
40 (1961) pp. 312-18; Beinecke MS 422 not listed.

2.  ff. 5r-6r  //bonum per dei gratiam atque vestram applicuisse sanus et
incolumis in studio laudabiliter perseuero.  Item narratio dicitur viciosa si
sit confusa...et uirtute et videre poteris in salutationibus infrascriptis.  f.
6v blank

     Unidentified treatise on rhetoric, beginning abruptly in prima pars of
the text, with the following headings:  De uicio petitionis, De reprobando
uicioso dictamine, Notula doctrinalis,
Incipit secunda pars de omnibus regulis que faciunt ad artem utiliter
annotandis, Quid sit epistula, Quare epistula fuit inuenta, De partibus
epistule, Diffinicio salutationis, De his que considerantur in salutationibus.

     Paper (coarse, brown; watermarks:  unidentified human head?), ff. i (paper)
+ 6 (contemporary foliation, 1-6, in ink) + i (paper), 299 x 195 (189 x 115) mm.
Ca. 38 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.  Remains of ptickings in upper, lower
and outer margins.
     A single gathering of 6 leaves, with at least one bifolium missing in center
of quire; crudely stitched together.
     Written in Italian notarial script.
     Two initials, in black ink with simple penwork designs, also in black, for
preface, 7-line, and text, 10-line, on f. 1r; added later [?].  Guide-letters in
margins.
     Binding:  s. xx.  Marbled paper wrapper.

Written in Italy in the first half of the 15th century; early modern provenance
unknown.  Acquired from Guiseppe (Joseph) Martini by H. P. Kraus from whom
it was purchased in 1962 by S. Harrison Thomson.  Acquired from Thomson in
1969 [?] as the gift of Edwin J. and Frederick W. Beinecke.

secundo folio:  quod est

Barbara A. Shailor