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[Bellum Catilinae ; Bellum Jugurthinum].

Author/Creator:
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Publication:
[Spain?], [between 1470 and 1499?]
Format/Description:
Manuscript
149 leaves : paper ; 219 x 150 (157 x 92) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm
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Subjects:
Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.
Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.
Rome -- History -- Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Histories.
Biographies (literary works)
Poems.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
Sallust's historical accounts of the Catlinian conspiracy against and of the Battle of Jugurthine, preceded by a brief biography of Sallust and followed by a distich of Martial and dueling invectives attributed to Sallust and Cicero.
Contents:
1. f.1-3r: Crispi Sallustii historia atque oratoris clarissimi vita.
2. f.3r-49r: Bellum Catilinae / Sallust.
3. f.49r-138v: Bellum Jugurthinum / Sallust.
4. f.138v: Distichon Martialis in Sallustium / Martial.
5. f.138v-141v: Crispi Salustii in Marchum Tulium Ciceronem invectiva.
6. f.141v-149r: Marchi Tulii Ciceronis in Crispum Salustium responsio.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Incipit (1st work): Crispus Sallustius vir patritius ab ineunte etate bonis artibus inbutus ad rem publicam gerendam animam applicuit.
Alphonsus Kurfess issued an edition of the Invectiva and Responsio (5th and 6th works) in In Ciceronem et invicem invectiva (Teubner, 1970).
Collation: Paper, 150; 1-10¹⁴ 11¹⁰; [i], 1-4, [i], 6-149; near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on last verso of most gatherings.
Layout: Written in 16 long lines; full-length bounding lines in lead; pricking visible on later pages.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Decoration: Spaces and guide letters for illuminated initials that were never added.
Binding: Half calf over wooden boards. Some evidence of worm damage.
Origin: Written in Spain in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 29 (Ms. Latin 125).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1042
Contains:
Martial.
Pseudo-Sallust.
De studiis et litteris illustri D. D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.
OCLC:
155930348