Crispi Sallustii de Catheli[n]e co[n]jurac[i]o[n]e liber; Jugurtinum bellum ei[us]de[m]

Creator:

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. (author)

Timespan:

Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Date:

1455

Description:

Humanist copy of Sallust's works on the history of Rome, with contemporary and later annotations, including alternate readings, some of which were incorporated into the text as corrections.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Copied for and owned by members of the Maffei family of Volterra, west of Siena (coat of arms, f. 1r; erased inscription of Mario Maffei and possible 16th-century reference to his descendents, verso of back flyleaf).; Formerly owned by Clemented Carilli da Volterra, 17th century (inscription, f. 155v).; Formerly owned by Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini di Volterra dated 1666 (verso of back flyleaf).; Sold at auction at Christie's, 7 June 2000, lot 9, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.; Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.; Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2021.; Maffei, Mario, 1463-1537, former owner.; Carilli, Clemente, former owner.; Saccardini, Giuseppe Antonio, former owner.

Relation:

The Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative Fund Home Page: http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278; Digital facsimile for download (OPenn): https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs381.html; Video orientation: https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000273; Collation model: https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61580

Subject:

Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts); histories (literary genre); annotations; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

160 leaves : parchment, color illustrations; 172 x 112 (111 x 72) mm bound to 184 x 120 mm

Geographic Subject:

Rome -- History -- Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-53r: De Catheline conjuracione liber.; Table of contents: 2. f.53r-160v: Jugurtinum bellum.; Collation: Parchment, i + 160 + i; 1-6¹⁰ 7⁸ 8-13¹⁰ 14¹² 15-16¹⁰; 1-160; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Link to collation model at end of record.; Layout: Written in 22 long lines; frame-ruled in drypoint.; Script: Written in a humanistic book script.; Decoration: 1 6-line illuminated initial in blue, red, and green on gold (f. 1r); 1 5-line initial in gold on a shaped ground of white vine work filled with red, green, and blue (f. 53v); partially effaced coat of arms (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials alternately in red or blue; rubrics and some annotations in faded red ink.; Binding: Contemporary Italian blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards; remnants of three clasps and red silk straps, one in the center of each edge; spine largely gone; pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves from a 14th-century manuscript, possibly a grammatical text, written in littera bononiensis with red or blue initials with contrasting flourishing, very faded.; Origin: Possibly written in Padua, between 1455 and 1465.; Lawrence J. Schoenberg & Barbara Brizdle Manuscript Initiative.; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, LJS 381

Collection:

Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection (University of Pennsylvania)