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Beinecke MS 714
Bible. New Testament. Excerpts, in Greek and Latin. Bound with other
texts.
Latin and Greek. Italy, second half of the 15th century.
1. ff. 1r-6r [[Greek text]]
Book of Hosea, in Greek.
2. ff. 6v-12v Blank.
3. ff. 13r-14v [[Greek heading]] Plures fuisse qui evangelia scripserunt, ut
lucas evangelista testatur dicens. Quam quem multi conati sunt ordinare
narrationem rerum, quae in nobis completae sunt sicut tradiderunt nobis
qui ab initio ipsi videruntur sermonem et ministraverunt ei...
Preface to Jerome on Matthew, in Latin [Stegmueller 3372].
4. ff. 15r-122r [[Greek text, ff. 15r-16v]] f. 16v inc.: Cap. Primum.
Liber generationis iesu christi filii david, filii habraam habraam
genuit isaac isaac autem genuit iacob...
Gospel of Matthew, in Greek and Latin.
5. ff. 122v-123v Blank.
6. ff. 124r-141r [P]aulus servus iesu christi vocatus apostolis segregatus
in evangelium dei: quod ante promiserat per prophetas suas in scripturas
sanctis de filio suo: qui factus est ei ex semine david secundum carnem.
Epistle of Paul to the Romans. In Latin with Greek and Latin
notes.
7. ff. 141r-152r [[Greek text, ff. 141r-142r]] f. 142r inc.: Argumentum.
Corinthii sunt achaici: et hi similiter ab apostolo audierunt verbum
veritatis: et subversi sunt multifarie a falsis prophetis. Quidam a
prophetiae verbosa eloquentia; alii a decta legis iudaicae inducti
sunt: hos revocat apostolis ad veram et evangelicam sapientiam: scribens
eis ab ephesio per Timotheum discipulam suum. [[Greek heading]] Paulus
vocatus apostolus iesu christi per voluntatemdei: et Sosthenes frater
ecclesiae dei: quae e corinthi sanctitatis in christo iesu vocatis
sanctis...
First Letter of Paul to the Corinthians, I:1-XII:12, in
Latin with Greek and Latin notes [Preface is Stegmueller 685].
8. ff. 152v-157v Blank.
9. ff. 158r-205v Fratres carissimi non queo quem mente concepi ore proferre
sermonem et cordis leticiam lingua non explicat hoc autem non solum ego
pacior qui cupio narrare que sentio sum etiam ut et vos mecum
paciamini plus exultantes in conscientia...
Jerome (compilation commonly attributed to Thomas Dorniberg).
Aureola ex floribus Sancti Hieronymus contexta [Printed Goff
H-154 to H-159].
10. f. 206 Blank.
11. ff. 207r-228r Incipit Testamentum beati Ieronimi. Reverendissimo patri
damaso portuensi episcopo ac christianissimo Theodoro senatori urbis
Romane clarissimo Eusebius olim Ieronimi discipulus patris fletum et
gaudium deus omnipotens...
Jerome, attributed author. Testamentum [BHL 3866].
12. f. 228v Pius papa secundum venerabilis fide Ieronimis archiepiscopus
cretum comissario nostre venerabili fd salutem et apostolicam
brevi intelleximus ad venisse... [Second letter incipit, line 16:]
Pius secundum accepimus litteras tuas et intelligimus que de confluente
multitudine scribis agimus deo gratias qui corda fidelum descusione
fidei...
Copies of two letters in Latin by Pope Pius II (reg. 1458-
1464) to Hieronymus Landus, Archbishop of Crete, dated 13
June 1463 and 18 June (no year).
13. ff. 228v Io so la more principessa grande
che lumana superbia in basso pono
e per lo mundo el mio mone sispande
78 lines of Italian terza rima. [F. Carboni, Incipitario della lirica
italiana dei secoli XV-XX, vol. 2 [Vatican City: Biblioteca Apostolica
Vaticana, 1982], no. 8809].
14. ff. 229r-233v Post peccatum ade expulso et eva de paradiso propter
peccatum dum clamaret in misericordiam dei indutus perisomate de solus
fici ex benignitate suscepit promissum quod in fine secolorum daturus
esset ei dominus oleo misericordie.
Anonymous. History of the Cross [Bloomfield 3966; Betty Hill,
"The Fifteenth-century Prose 'Legend of the Cross before
Christ,'" Medium Aevum 34 (1965), pp. 203-222].
15. ff. 233v-257r De trinitate hoc tenendum est quod in una substantia sunt
tres persone scilicet pater et filius et spiritus sanctus pater a nullo
filius generatum a patre solo...
Aegidius Romanus (Giles of Rome). Capitula fidei christiane
[Bloomfield 1466].
16. ff. 257v-260r [G]Racioso principi et felici militi Raymundo dno Castri
sancti Ambrosii Bernardus in senium deductus salutem doceri petis a
nobis de cura et modo rei familiaris utili gubernacione qualiter pater
familias debeat se honore.
Bernard of Clairvaux. Letter to Raymundus dominus Castri
Sancti Ambrosii [PL 182: 647-651].
17. f. 260v Table of kindred and affinity.
Paper, ff. i (parchment) + 260 + i (parchment), 210 x 140 (writing space
varies) mm. Written in one column, 26-29 lines.
I-II^^12, III^^10, IV-V^^12, VI-VII^^14, VIII-IX^^12, X^^14, XI-XII^^12,
XIII-XV^^10, XVI^^(10+1), XVII^^10, XVIII^^(10-1), XIX^^10, XX^^12,
XXI-XXII^^10, XXIII^^12. Catchwords in various positions in lower margin.
Some initials and headings in red. Initial and marginal ornamentation on f.
15r in pink, yellow, and olive green. Marginal design on f. 16v in violet
and yellow. Ornate pen initials on f. 158r, 207r, and 229r. Smaller
initials and rubrics in violet and red throughout.
Written in by several scribes using various scripts, ranging from humanist
miniscule to gothic bastarda and bookhand. Numerous marginal notes in
contemporary and later hands, often concerning exemplars.
Binding: Bound in 18th century half leather over boards.
Provenance: Items j) and m) signed by scribe Johannes Listighe de Monaco.
Location-note on verso of back flyleaf "Banco 2o ad orientem".
Formerly in the libraries of the Earl of Guilford and Sir Thomas
Phillipps (ms. 6899; shelf number on label on spine). Unidentified shelf
number 231 on label on spine, with printed note "GAOL".
Bibliography: Robert G. Babcock and Mark L. Sosower, Learning from the
Greeks: An Exhibition Commemorating the Five-Hundredth Anniversary of the
Founding of the Aldine Press (New Haven, CT: Beinecke Rare Book and
Manuscript Library, 1994), p. 13, no. 8.