Hoc in uolumine haec continentur. Pomponii Epsitola ad Augustinu[m] Maphaeu[m]. .C. Crispii Sallustii bellum catilinarium cu[m] co[m]mento Laurentii uallensis. Portii Latro[n]is Declamatio co[n]tra .L. catilina[m]. .C. Crispi Sallustii bellum iugurthinum. .C. Crispi Sallustii uariae oratio[n]es ex libris eiusdem historiarum excerptae. .C. Crispi Salustii uita. Romae per Pomponium emendata: ac Venetiis diligentissime impressa.
Sallust (86-34 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1491
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094709
Summary
Bibliographic description
[62] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6951. Imperfect: wanting final blank leaf. Initials supplied in alternating red and blue, some with reserved white decoration. Manuscript inscription at head of leaf a1r in contemporary or early sixteenth-century hand: "In no[m]i[n]e d[o]m[ini?] amẽ" [truncated]. Manuscript marginal notes in contemporary or sixteenth-century hand on leaves h3r, k3v, k5v; with infrequent corrections to the printed text, underscoring of text and other marginal markings. Manuscript date from the colophon on leaf k7v: "1491 / 11a Maij". Provenance: library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript code leaf on a1r: "C 1711 4m2". Binding: eighteenth-century gold-tooled polished calf; sewn on six supports; double gilt fillet border, double and single gilt fillet panel with gilt floral cornerpieces; gilt roll pattern on board edges; blind roll on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine with repeated acorn stamps, gilt title lettered directly onto spine: 'Sallust. cum com: 1491'; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Sallust (86-34 BC), author Pseudo-Sallust, author Marcus Porcius Latro (57- 4 BC), author Julius Pomponius Laetus (1428-1498), editor Lorenzo Valla (1407-1457), commentator Pinzi, Filippo, printer