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Title

Bellum Catilinae ;

Authors

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

Call number

Ms. Codex 1042
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9939592023503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/79432786
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/3959202

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1470 and 1499?

Place

Spain?

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.

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).
   

Extent

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

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

Half calf over wooden boards. Some evidence of worm damage.

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.

Provenance

• Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.
   

Subjects topical

• Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C

Genres

• Codices
• Histories
• Biographies
• Poems
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Biography
• History
• Paper
• Catalan
• Spain

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Crispi Sallustii historia atque oratoris clarissimi vita, f. 1r
• fol. 3r — Bellum Catilinae, f. 3r
• fol. 49r — Bellum Jugurthinum, f. 49r
• fol. 138v — Distichon Martialis in Sallustium, f. 138v
• fol. 138v — Crispi Salustii in Marchum Tulium Ciceronem invectiva, f. 138v
• fol. 141v — Marchi Tulii Ciceronis in Crispum Salustium responsio, f. 141v