Beinecke MS 587
Italy, s. XIV
Terence, Eunuchus (fragm.)

ff. 1r-2v	// Tu multo hilarior pol quidem. CR. Verbum hercle ... Ut huius loci dieique 
meique semper memineris //.

Terence (Terentius), Eunuchus, A. Fleckeisen (ed.), Teubner (1901) , IV.731-801, with the 
commentary of  Giacomino da Mantova (Iacobinus Mantuanus), s. XIV. The author of the gloss 
was identified by Giuseppe Billanovich in a letter to H.P. Kraus, 9 Febr. 1963 (preserved in the 
documentary folder in the Beinecke Library). See on this commentary  R. Sabbadini, "Giacomo 
da  Mantova commentatore di Terenzio", in Atti e Memorie della Reale Accademia Virgiliana di 
Mantova, N.S., 8 (1915), pp.??, reprinted in R. Sabbadini, Classici e umanisti da codici 
ambrosiani (Florence, 1933), pp. 69-96; E. Franceschini, "Il commento di Giacomino da Mantova 
al prologo dell'Andria di Terenzio", in E. Franceschini, Studi e note di filologia latina medioevale 
(Milan, 1938), pp. 161-173.


Parchment, two conjugate leaves forming the inner bifolium of a quire, 310 x 220 mm. Stained.

Ruled with lead (?) for one column of  22 lines below top line, c. 173 x c. 110 mm.

Copied by one hand in Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria, the interlinear and marginal glosses 
in small script of the same type.

Red headings. The majuscules are heightened in red. Initials wanting. Pointing hands.

At the top of f. 2r, in s. XIX handwriting, the note : "Libro di contratti e testamenti risguardandi 
il monastero di S. Maria di Fregionaia. Sec XIII (1293-97)", showing that the bifolium was used 
as a cover for an archival document belonging to the monastery of Regular Canons of St. 
Augustine of Santa Maria at Frigionaia near Lucca. At the top of f. 1r is a note dated 1595 and in 
the middle of the same page the number "1655". Sold by H.P. Kraus, New York. Gift of 
Edmund T. Silk, 15 December 1976.

Albert Derolez

R 06.06.08