Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Crispi Sallustii de Catheline conjuracione liber ;

Authors

• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C

Other related names

• Maffei, Mario, 1463-1537, former owner
• Carilli, Clemente, former owner
• Saccardini, Giuseppe Antonio, former owner

Call number

LJS 381
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9946491823503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/802407358
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3qv3c451 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs381.html https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000273 https://repository.upenn.edu/handle/20.500.14332/61580

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1455 and 1465?

Place

Padua?, Italy

Summary

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.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).
   
• 1. f.1r-53r: De Catheline conjuracione liber.
   
• 2. f.53r-160v: Jugurtinum bellum.
   

Extent

160 leaves : 172 x 112 (111 x 72) mm bound to 184 x 120 mm

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.

Support

Parchment

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.

Layout

Written in 22 long lines ; frame-ruled in drypoint.

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.

Script

Written in a humanistic book script.

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.
   

Subjects topical

• Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C
• Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• histories (literary genre)
• annotations
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Licenses

• Text

  These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts LJS 381: Crispi Sallustii de Catheline conjuracione liber ; are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/.

  URL

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — De Catheline conjuracione liber, f. 1r
• fol. 53r — Jugurtinum bellum, f. 53r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial O, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illustration, Coat of arms, f. 1r
• fol. 53v — Illuminated initial, Initial F, f. 53v
• Inside back cover — Reused manuscript leaf, Inside back cover