Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with scholia
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Description
- Title
- Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with scholia
- Creator
- Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Published / Created
- [between 1400 and 1425]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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Manuscript on parchment (trimmed) of 1) Unidentified preface. 2) Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. 3) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Catilinae. Although the commentary of Beinecke MS 358 belongs to the medieval school tradition rather than to the Renaissance tradition, neither the text of this article or of art. 5 below resembles closely any medieval texts currently known. 4) Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum. 5) Unidentified scholia on Sallust, Bellum Iugurthinum
- Description
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In Latin.
Script: Written in batarde, with scholia in a smaller version of the same hand.
One miniature, 12-line, f. 74v, a T-O mappa mundi, in a red and gold frame, slightly waterstained at the edges. One 4-line initial, f. 3r (pink), and one 3-line initial, f. 57r (blue), both with white highlights, filled with red and blue ivy on gold against a gold ground. Twenty 2-line initials, gold, filled with pink and blue against pink and/or blue grounds, square or irregular, with white filigree. Capitals stroked in yellow, red or blue between ff. 1r and 26v; in yellow for the remainder of the text. Borders were perhaps added later (between 1425 and 1450) on folios with initials only; between ff. 1r and 57r, flowering vines, gold, green and blue with gold dots in lines above, below or in written space; blue and gold acanthus mixed with flowering vines, red, pink, blue, and green with gold ivy in line above written space and in inner margin within rulings for scholia; on a few folios, outer vertical bounding line reinforced in red with small acanthus terminals. Between ff. 57v and 162v pink, blue and/or green acanthus, with flowering vines, pink, blue and green, with gold ivy and dots, disposed as above; on f. 85v vertical bounding line repainted as a green stem with lopped off stalks. Lemmata underlined in red.
Binding: 18th-19th centuries. Limp vellum case with title in ink. Rodent damage. - Extent
- ff. iii + ii + 162 + iii : 210 x 146 (112 x 75) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Latin
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 358
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
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Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. - Subject (Topic)
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Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia - Subjects
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Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Sallust, Bellum Catilinae and Bellum Iugurthinum, with Scholia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9782251
- Object ID (OID)
- 17311127
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