Sallust

Description

Title: Sallust
Creator: Sallust, 86 B.C.-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. 2) Bellum Iugurthinum
Description: In Latin.
Script: copied by one hand writing a careful Humanistica Textualis with wide distance between the lines.
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.
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.
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.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Rome
Subject (Name): Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Subject (Topic): Latin prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
History
Subjects: Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Latin prose literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rome > History > Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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