[Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Jugurthinum]

Name:

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.; Martial; Pseudo-Sallust

Timespan:

Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Date:

1470

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.

Subject:

Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.; Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Histories; Biographies (literary works); Poems; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

149 leaves : paper; 219 x 150 (157 x 92) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm

Geographic Subject:

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

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1-3r: Crispi Sallustii historia atque oratoris clarissimi vita.; Table of contents: 2. f.3r-49r: Bellum Catilinae / Sallust.; Table of contents: 3. f.49r-138v: Bellum Jugurthinum / Sallust.; Table of contents: 4. f.138v: Distichon Martialis in Sallustium / Martial.; Table of contents: 5. f.138v-141v: Crispi Salustii in Marchum Tulium Ciceronem invectiva.; Table of contents: 6. f.141v-149r: Marchi Tulii Ciceronis in Crispum Salustium responsio.; 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).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1042