C. Crispi Sallustii De coniuratione Catilinae. Eiusdem De bello Iugurthino Eiusdem oratio contra M. T. Ciceronem. M. T. Ciceronis oratio contra. C. Crispu[m] Sallustium. Eiusdem orationes quatuor co[n]tra Lucium Catilina[m]. Porcii Latronis declamatio contra Lucium Catalina[m] Orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum. C. Crispi Sallustii.
Sallust (86-34 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1509
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3040571
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16], 279, [1] p. ; 8vo. Running number: 7039. Water-staining throughout. With sixteenth-century manuscript marginal annotations and textual corrections throughout (see following provenance note). Provenance: manuscript inscription (within wavy line border) on front fly-leaf: "Salustius collatus cum vetere illo qui in Medicea Bibliotheca Romae est" [i.e. this copy was compared and collated with an older copy, presumably a manuscript, in the 'Medici Library'[?] in Rome]. Manuscript initial on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century[?] plain cartonnage boards; sewn on three double parchment supports; hollow back; traces of manuscript title on spine; fore-edge of bookblock untrimmed.
Makers and roles
Sallust (86-34 BC), author Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), author Crinito, Pietro, 1465-ca. 1504, author possibly Marcus Porcius Latro (57- 4 BC), author Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), editor Aldo Manuzio (1449/50-1515), printer Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer