Sallust

Description

Title: Sallust
Creator: Sallust, 86-34 B.C
Contributor: Sallust,--86-34 B.C
Published / Created: [between 1450 and 1500]
Publication Place: Italy (Florence?),
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of 1) C. Sallustius Crispus (c. 86-34 B.C.), De coniuratione Catilinae, A. Kurfess, ed. (Teubner, 1954), pp. 2-52. 2) Bellum Iugurthinum, A. Kurfess, ed., pp. 53-147.
Description: Binding: Original, blind-tooled, over wooden boards. Remnants of three clasps attached to the front cover with three nails each, one at each edge of the cover, and three pentagonal brass catches on the rear cover. Remnants of five bosses.
Lower section of leaves, especially of first and last quires, badly waterstained, causing loss of text. Quires strengthened by means of parchments stays at inner and at outer side.
Script: Copied by one hand writing a careful Humanistica Textualis with wide distance between the lines.
Space for 2-line initials has been reserved (for a 3-line initial on f. 1r). The words following a planned initial and the explicit formulas are in Capitalis.
Extent: ff. vi + 119 + ii ; 220 x 150 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Format: text
Genre: Annotations
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Geographic): Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C
Subject (Name): Sallust,--86-34 B.C
Subject (Topic): Latin prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Sallust. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Orbis Record: 9885295
Object ID (OID): 11007492
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/MS938.pdf