Bod-Inc: S-017
Sallustius Crispus, Gaius
Opera: Bellum Catilinae; Bellum Iugurthinum.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Bellum Catilinae. ‘De Lucii Catiline coniuratione'.’ Sal. Cat.
[c1r] Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Bellum Iugurthinum. ‘De bello Iugurthe contra populum romanum'.’ Sal. Jug.
[g6r] ‘De morte Iugurthe disticon.’ Incipit: ‘Qui cupis ignotum Iugurthe noscere letum | Tarpeie rupis trusus ad ima ruit'; 1 elegiac distich. See Walther, Initia, 15445. On the transmission of this distich see S‑011.
Imprint
Imprint: [Basel: Martin Flach, c.1474]. Folio.
Collation
Collation: [a–d10 e8 f g6].
References
ISTC: is00058000
Hain: H 14188;
Goff: Goff S‑58;
BMC: BMC III 740;
Proctor: Pr 7549;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑28; CIBN S‑26; Rhodes 1545; Sheppard 2390.
LCN: 14028177
Copies
Copy number: S-017(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century dark red morocco, blind-tooled in imitation of a fifteenth-century South German design; gilt-edged leaves; probably bound for John Bellingham Inglis (ex informatione Andrew Honey); the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; gilt-edged leaves; scar of an index tab on [a1r]; brown silk bookmark. The black-letter type and title layout used on the spine is the same as on the spine of BB‑1.
Size: 288 × 207 × 20 mm.
Size of leaf: 273 × 192 mm.
Two- to four-line initials and pilcrows are supplied in red; capital strokes are painted in yellow.
Provenance: Jesuits, probably in Konstanz, Switzerland; see obliterated inscription ‘Liber Societatis Jesu C[ ]st[ ]' on [g6r]. John Bellingham Inglis (1780-1870); sale (1826), lot 1429. Purchased at Inglis's sale for £5. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1826), 15.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 4.22.
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