[Bellum Catilinae ; Bellum Jugurthinum].

Format:

• Book
• Manuscript

Author/Creator:

• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.

Language:

• Catalan
• Latin

Subjects (All):

• Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.
• Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.
• Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Genre:

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

Penn Provenance:

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

Physical Description:

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

Place of Publication:

[Spain?], [between 1470 and 1499?]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

Sallust's historical accounts of the Catiline conspiracy against the consuls Cicero and Hybrida and of the Jugurthine War, with interlinear and marginal notes in both Latin and Catalan. Main text preceded by a brief biography of Sallust and followed by a distich of Martial and dueling invectives attributed to Sallust and Cicero. The biography (f. 1r-3r) is based on the one written by Sicco Polenton before 1437 and included in Vindelino de Spira's edition of Sallust published in Venice in 1471 (Alejandro Coroleu, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona).

Contents:

• 1. f.1-3r: Crispi Sallustii historia atque oratoris clarissimi vita.
• 2. f.3r-49r: Bellum Catilinae / Sallust.
• 3. f.49r-138v: Bellum Jugurthinum / Sallust.
• 4. f.138v: Distichon Martialis in Sallustium / Martial.
• 5. f.138v-141v: Crispi Salustii in Marchum Tulium Ciceronem invectiva.
• 6. f.141v-149r: Marchi Tulii Ciceronis in Crispum Salustium responsio.

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).
• 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. Link to collation model at end of record.
• 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).

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 29 (Ms. Latin 125).

Cited as:

Sallust, Bellum Catilinae (Ms. Codex 1042). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contains:

• Martial.
• Pseudo-Sallust.
• De studiis et litteris illustri D. D. Baptistinae de Malatestis.

OCLC:

155930348

Online:

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