Manuscript on paper (coarse, some deckle edges) of Varro, De lingua latina. The scribe of Marston MS 82 carefully recorded in the margins the lacunae by giving the number of missing leaves in the exemplar.
Description:
Belonged to the library of the Princes of Liechtenstein. Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Binding: Fifteenth century, Italy. Parchment stays adhered to inner and outer conjugate leaves of quires. Original sewing on three tawed skin, slit straps laid in channels on the outside of boards and nailed. Plain wound, natural color endbands are sewn on tawed skin cores laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and are tied down over strips of green tawed skin. Quarter bound in dark brown leather over beech boards with a leather strip nailed along the edge. One fastening, the leaf-shaped catch on the lower board, the upper board cut in for the clasp strap. Title, in ink, on fore edge: "Marcus Varo. De Lingua Latina"., Plain blue initial, 3-line, on f. 1r; plain red initials, 2-line, at beginning of books; headings in red, ff. 25r, 83v only. Remains of guide letters for rubricator., Script: Written in humanistic cursive script, above top line, by a single scribe who added marginalia, foliation (1-52 only), and Roman numerals for running headlines (ff. 1-30)., and Watermarks, in gutter: similar to Briquet Chapeau 3373, Main 10637; unidentified mountain surmounted by a cross and five-pointed star in a circle.
Binding: 19th-20th centuries. Greyish green paper case with a black gold-tooled label: "Aesopus. Sec. XIV"., Rubrics on ff. 2r-6v by same scribe who copied text; another hand added rubrics on f. 1r-v. Spaces for initials left unfilled; guide letters for decorator., and Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, below top line.
Lactantius, ca. 240-ca. 320 Ovid, 43 B.C.-17 or 18 A.D
Published / Created:
1459
Call Number:
Marston MS 16
Image Count:
420
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
Manuscript on paper of Ovid, Metamorphoses. With Lactantian tituli and narrationes in margins.
Description:
Binding: Fifteenth century, Germany. Adhered vellum stays on the inside of the quires. Original wound sewing on three wide, tawed skin, slit straps laced through tunnels in the edges of beech boards to channels on the outside and pegged. Natural color endbands, caught up on the spine, are sewn to tawed cores laced into grooves on the outside of the boards. Front pastedown: reused paper manuscript with text side pasted face down. Quarter bound in blue, tawed skin with a strip, now wanting, nailed along the edge. Two leaf-shaped catches with three five-petalled flowers on them on the lower board and the upper one cut in for kermes pink straps attached with metal plates; damage from a chain fastening at the head of this board, and the board broken; outer edge wanting. Title, in same (?) hand as on f. 1r, on upper and lower boards: "Ouidius methamorphoseos.", Plain red 5-line initial, in outline only, f. 3r; two smaller initials of similar style, ff. 3v-4r. First letter of each verse stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r. Spaces left for decorative initials remain unfilled elsewhere in codex., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Written in a small neat gothic text hand with hybrida features., and Watermarks: unidentified bull's head and mountain.
Manuscript, on paper, in Gothic bookhand by several different scribes, produced in Northern Italy around 1400.
Description:
Binding: modern quarter calf binding., Decoration: large initial P, characteristic of late fourteenth or early fifteenth century Northern Italian initials (f. 1r); two heads, one of a bishop (f. 43r); rubricated initials at section headings., Inscription: "Liber elisey de piasiis; Puluis ut inuentum sic desunt septra potentum.", Inscription: "Liber guidini et jacobi de piasiis.", Lines 2081-98 of the printed text, a section missing from many versions, appear at the end (after line 2116)., Purchased for the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection., and Watermark: similar to Bricquet 4001 (Venice, 1401) and 4002 (Bergamo, 1402).
Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest) of Ps.-Cicero, Synonyma.
Description:
Belonged to Giuseppe (Joseph) Martini of Lugano. Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1955., Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy. Original sewing on three slit straps. Quarter bound in white sheepskin. The beech boards are early, 15th century, with title written twice on front and once on back. A leaf-shaped catch on the lower board, the upper one cut in for a clasp strap. Spine covering and clasp strap are recent additions., Initials, 5-line, at beginning of text: red with delicate black penwork designs. Heading and each verbum in red; synonyms connected by a curving red line., and Script: Written in a well formed round gothic bookhand by a single scribe.
Manuscript on parchment of Guarino of Verona, 1) Regulae grammaticales. 2) De orthographia. 3) Carmina differentialia.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century (?). Rigid vellum case. Remains of a brick red label., Bookplate of Thomas E. Marston; the date and source of acquisition unknown., One illuminated initial of poor quality, f. 1r, 11-line, purple with white filigree on gold and blue ground; filled with a stylized flower red and green with white filigree, upper terminal extending into pen-and-ink inkspray with gold balls and a mauve flower in upper border; pen-and-ink flourish with gold balls, ending in a bird's head, mauve, green and blue. Plain initials and paragraph marks alternate in blue and red; headings in red. Arms of the Valaresso family of Venice in lower border (azure, 3 bars gemelles or); partially effaced arms of Cardinal Bessarion in outer margin (azure, a cross botonny gules, a chief or; crest, cardinal's hat and crozier)., and Script: Written in humanistic bookhand, below top line; marginal annotations in humanistic cursive.
Manuscript on parchment of Battista Guarino, Epistola ad Iohannem Bertuccium, dated 1467 in Ferrara.
Description:
Binding: Nineteenth century, Paris. Light brown goatskin with a gold-tooled title ("B. Gua./ Episto.") and doublures. Edges gilt. Bound by Chambolle-Duru (Paris, 1863-1915)., Plain 1-line initial, f. 1r, in blue. Heading in red., and Script: Written in a stylized humanistic cursive script much influenced by printing, below top line; heading in humanistic bookhand.
Subject (Name):
Bertucci, Giovanni Battista and Guarini, Battista,--1434-1513
Aurispa, Giovanni, ca. 1376-1459 Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444 Griffolini, Francesco, 1418-1483 Phalaris, Tyrant of Agrigentum, 6th cent. B.C Plutarch Tibullus
Published / Created:
[between 1450 and 1475]
Call Number:
Marston MS 100
Image Count:
224
Resource Type:
Archives or Manuscripts
Abstract:
, Epistolae, translated into Latin by Francesco
Description:
Binding: Date? Italy (?). Sewn through pieces of vellum. Limp vellum case with title in ink on spine: "Phalaridis Epistole". Badly worm eaten., Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1955 by Thomas E. Marston., Script: Arts. 1 and 3-12 written in humanistic cursive by a single scribe, above top line; arts. 2 and 13 added in a more flamboyant style of humanistic cursive., Two illuminated initials, 4-line, gold against blue, green and dark red grounds with white vine-stem ornament and white dots. From the corners issue penwork inkspray with leaves, green with yellow or gold highlights, and blue or red blossoms, extending into margins to form partial border. Plain initials alternate in blue and red. Headings in pale red., and Watermarks: similar in design to Briquet Fleur 6597, 6601.