CATALOGUE OF MEDIEVAL & RENAISSANCE MANUSCRIPTS IN THE BEINECKE RARE BOOK & MANUSCRIPT LIBRARY, YALE UNIVERSITY

Volume III: Marston Manuscripts

“One of the best manuscript catalogs ever published…This is an excellent piece of scholarship – knowledgeably and carefully written and beautifully produced.”
Philip Rider
American Reference Books Annual

• Edited by Barbara Shailor, Volume III of this reference work describes 287 literary manuscripts from the holdings of the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library.
• The volume describes the contents of each codex or manuscript, fragment, including incipits and explicits, parchments or watermarks, foliation, dimensions, collation, scribes, scripts, decoration, binding and provenance.
• This volume contains 64 pages of illustrative plates as well as extensive indices, all relating to Medieval and Renaissance Literature.

Amongst the items catalogued in Volume III are:

• Boniface VIII, Sextus Liber Decretalium, etc. (Marston MS 155).
• Cicero’s Orationes, De Oratore, Orator and Brutus, Northern Italy, 1420’s (Marston MS 6).
• Plato’s Phaedo, translated into Latin by Leonardo Bruni (Marston MS 78).
• Walter Burley, De vita et moribus philosophorum, 15th century (Marston MS 91).
• Pilgrim’s Passport (letter of conduct) in Latin, 1425 (Marston MS 205).