Bod-Inc: S-011
Sallustius Crispus, Gaius
Opera: Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Iugurthinum.
Analysis of Content
[a2r] [Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Bellum Catilinae.] Sal. Cat.
[c1r] Sallustius [Crispus, Gaius]: Bellum Iugurthinum. ‘De Bello Iugurthino'. Sal. Jug.
[f12r] [Distich on the death of Iugurtha.] Incipit: ‘Qui cupis ignotum Iugurthae noscere letum | Tarpeie rupis pulsus ad ima ruit'; 1 elegiac distich. See Walther, Initia, 15445. On the transmission of this distich see C. Crispi Salustii quae exstant, ed. F. D. Gerlach (Basel, 1823), I p. xix.
[f12r] [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quadringenta dedit formata uolumina Crispi | Nunc lector Venetis Spirea Vindelinus'; 2 elegiac couplets, advertising the edition.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, 1470. 4°.
Collation
Collation: [a–f12].
References
ISTC: is00051000
Hain: HC 14197;
Goff: Goff S‑51;
BMC: BMC V 155;
Proctor: Pr 4026;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑26; CIBN S‑19; Sheppard 3195. Microfiche: Unit 8: Printing in Italy before 1472: Part II, PI 68.
LCN: 14028264
Copies
Copy number: S-011(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century russia; the title in gilt on the spine; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 270 × 183 × 22 mm.
Size of leaf: 260 × 167 mm.
Frequent marginal and interlinear annotations to Bellum Catilinae in a contemporary Italian hand, supplying ‘nota' signs including ΧΗ and ωwith a superimposed Ρ, pointing hands, corrections to the text, Latin synonyms and references to other authors, extracting personal names, and summarizing key points. Marginal notes on Bellum Iugurthinum in a second contemporary Italian hand, supplying brackets, extracting personal names, and summarizing key points. Occasional notes in a sixteenth-century Italian hand.
Initials are supplied in red or blue.
Provenance: Tomaso de Luca de Cadore (nineteenth century); sale, 18 July 1825, lot 1571. Purchased for £18. 18. 0; ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 58r; Books Purchased (1825), 23.
SHELFMARK: Auct. L 5.20.
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