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Beinecke MS 453 Italy, 1485
Coluccio Salutati, De seculo et religione
1. ff. 1r-81r [M]emor semper fui venerabilis et carissime frater postquam
te mundo subtractum in sanctissimo cenobio tuo letus et auidus...et ineffabilis
trinitatis in sue eternitatis Indiuisibili perseueret [sic] Amen.
[colophon:] Anno domini Miiii^^c 1xxxv^^to. Hoc opus scriptum fuit per me
martinum de Laurentio de padono diocesis ypporriensis ad honorem dei et
sacratissimeque virginis marie.
B. L. Ullman, ed., Colucii Salutati de seculo et religione...(Florence,
1957) pp. vi-vii (MS no. 3); text: pp. 1-167. Folios 49 and 50 (central
conjugate leaves) were reversed in binding.
2. f. 81v Six lines of text, incomplete, beginning: Consilia euangelica
sunt illa que christus super legem moysi adiecit que sunt numero duodecim....
Primum est paupertatis.... Secondum [sic] est obedientie...//
Paper, ff. 81, 226 x 168 (160 x 100) mm. 30 long lines. Single vertical
bounding lines ruled in lead or hard point, full length; horizontal rulings for
text in pen.
I^^8, II^^10 (-6, no loss of text), III-IV^^10, V-VI^^8, VII^^10, VIII^^12,
IX^^10 (-7 through 10, presumably blank). Catchwords, with flourishes, under
written space and often extending into inner margin.
Written in neat gothic cursive that shows batarde influence; first
word(s) of each section executed in bold textura. Spaces for decorative
initials are unfilled; guide-letters in margins. Folio 27v reproduced in
Thomson, Latin Bookhands, pl. 82.
Binding: s. xvii [?]. Sewn on three tawed, slit strap supports, the spine
lined with vellum between them. Blue and cream colored endbands. Covered with
tawed skin, originally white, over flush, made boards.
Written probably in Northwestern Italy (diocese of Ivrea) by the scribe Martinus
de Laurentio de Padono, in 1485 (colophon, f. 81r). Unidentified shelf-marks
include "N^^o 838 B" written in ink inside front cover; "P 2/ 12" in ink at top
of spine; "S/ 31-5-27" in pencil inside back cover; and an early ownership
inscription, now effaced, in upper margin of f. 1r. Belonged to S. Harrison
Thomson (MS 6); note inside front cover states that he purchased the manuscript
in Oxford in 1926. Acquired from Thomson in 1968 with the Edwin J. and
Frederick W. Beinecke Rare Book Endowment Fund.
secundo folio: qui licet
Barbara A. Shailor