Beinecke MS 717
Italy (Sinigallia), c. 1650
Miscellany, Italian and Latin

1.	f. 1r	Per un breve diletto / Aspri tormenti, / Per un breve piacer / Eterne pene ...

 Italian poem warning against sin.

2.	ff. 1v-4v	Ecce agnus Dei [John 1:29]. Fratelli e sorelle in Cristo, alzate gl'occhii ...

Italian sermons.

3.	ff. 5r-54v	Notes on Christian, historical and other subjects, sermons, commonplaces, 
recipes etc., all in Italian. On f. 22v: "Sinigaglia fu edificata ... Fu rovinata e destrutta  da 
Alarico re de Goti ...". This is followed by notes on the churches and other buildings of 
the city, and the relics kept in the churches.

4.	ff. 55r-	90r	Catone: Anima magis est ubi amat quam ubi animat. Abundanti dare nihil 
aliud est quam perdere. Gregorio: Abstinentia est mater sanitatis, voluptas vero est mater 
egritudinis ... [f. 90v:] Rom. 13: Vis non timere potestatem? Bonum fac et habebis 
laudem ex illa [Rom. 13:3].		ff. 90v-91r blank

Latin proverbs and quotations in alphabetical order, to which other hands have made additions 
on blank spaces and pages. The sources as far as indicated are the Bible, the Church Fathers, a 
few Christian authors of the Middle Ages, pagan authors and philosophers.

5.	f. 91v	Antonius N. aram hanc construxit centumque constituit, quo in ea res sacra 
perpetuo fiat bis in hebdomada singulis quibusque diebus Dominicis et quibus contigerit 
Annunciatio Virginis. 1619.  - Primi lapides fundamentales huius ecclesi? iacti fuere anno 
Domini 1610. ... Horatius N. Senegalliensis memoriam hanc faciendam curavit 1612.

Notes on monuments in Sinigallia.

6.	f. 92r-v	Carmina ad Mariam. Mater, nata, uxor, natum patremque virumque ... Ad 
eamdem. Dux, genitrix, tutrix, equites natosque, clientes ... Ad Crucifixi imaginem. 
Effigiem Christi qui transis pronus honora ... [cfr. Walther, Initia 5256]. Ad Virginem. Tu 
qui transis, cave, ne dimittas dicere Ave. Ad eandem. Deum capis, hominem rapis ... In 
viam salutis etern?. Sine labe quid miraris mater Dei est ...Ad Virginem. Te intercedente 
divina placatur ira ...

Latin verses in honor of the Virgin.

7.	f. 93r-v	Super sepulchrum inscriptiones. Ad expectandum magni iudicii diem 
locum istum pro se suisque heredibus elegit N., qui obiit anno 1600 Calendis N., etatis su? 
65 ...

Text of epitaphs in churches at Sinigallia, dated 1600-1602, in which the family names have been 
replaced by "N." (see also art. 5). An additional epitaph is of "Iohannes de Ruere  Senegalli? 
vetustissim? civitatis dominus" [Giovanni della Rovere (1457-1501), lord of Sinigallia and 
Mondavio, prefect of Rome].

8.	ff. 94r-	97r	Various notes in Italian, mainly historical. The names of Sinigallia and 
della Rovere appear on f. 96v.

9.	ff. 97v-98r	Table of the times of sunrise (f. 97v: "Sole") and noon (f. 98r: 
"Mezogiorno") for all the days of the year, expressed in hours and minutes, according to 
the Italian system in which the day is divided into 24 hours of equal length and sunset = 
hour 0.

10.	ff. 98v-101v	Various notes in Italian, i.a. a list of herbs, notes about popes and notes 
dated 1655 and 1656.		f. 102 blank


Paper, ff. II +  102 + II, 190 x 125 mm. The paper badly damaged by the acid ink, often 
impairing legibility. Some texts much faded.

Collation impossible.

Written in long lines without any ruling.

Various scribes, mostly writing Humanistica Cursiva Currens difficult to decipher. Some parts are 
written by a more calligraphic hand, especially the original parts of artt. 4, 6 and 7.

There is no decoration.

Modern blue paper wrappers; on the spine a paper label with the printed inscription "ITALIAN 
MISCELLANY. MS. c. 1650".

Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.

Albert Derolez

R 19.02.09