Bod-Inc: S-033
Sallustius Crispus, Gaius
Opera: Bellum Catilinae (comm. Laurentius Valla); Bellum Iugurthinum (comm. Johannes Chrysostomus Soldus), et al. (ed. Pomponius Laetus, rev. Johannes Britannicus).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a1v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘M. Valerius Probus unicae uetustatis amator cum animaduertisset . . .’ On this preface see S‑028.
a2r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Bellum Catilinae. ‘De coniuratione L. Ser. Catilinae'. Edited by Pomponius Laetus, see his prefatory letter and title-page, and revised by Johannes Britannicus. Sal. Cat.
a2r Valla, Laurentius: ‘In C. Crispi Salustii Catilinarium Comentarii'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis homines [Sal. Cat. I.1] Patritia gente Crispus Salustius Romae natus . . .’ See S‑028.
e2r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomeus Soldus. Incipit: ‘Dedi operam mi frater, ut Salustii de bello Iugurthino interpretationem incoharem . . .’ See S‑032.
e2r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomeus Soldus. Incipit: ‘Mitto ad te expositionem in Salustium de bello Iugurthino sicuti eram pollicitus . . .’ See S‑032.
e2v [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: [Life of Sallust.] Incipit: ‘Salustius ciuis Romanus Senatorii ordinis fuit . . .’ See S‑032.
e3r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Bellum Iugurthinum. ‘De Bello Iugurthino'. Sal. Jug.
e3r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: ‘Commentaria in bellum Iugurthinum'. Incipit: ‘[F]also queritur [Sal. Jug. I.1]. Iniuste, inquit, homines conqueruntur de natura sua . . .’
q3v Porcius Latro, [Marcus pseudo-]: ‘Declamatio contra Lucium Sergium Catilinam'. Incipit: ‘[S]i quid precibus apud deos immortales sanctissimi iudices uobiscum aliquando ualuissemus . . .’ See S‑028.
r3r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Ex libris Historiarum [orationes]. ‘Oratio Lepidi consulis ad populum'. Sal. Hist. See S‑028.
s1r [Sallustius Crispus, Gaius pseudo-(?): Epistulae] ad Caesarem senem de re publica. Sal. Epist. For the ascription of this work to Sallust see S‑028.
s5r [Laetus, Julius Pomponius]: ‘C. Crispi Salustii Vita.’ Ullman, ‘Dedication Copy', 368. See S‑028.
s5r Sallustius [Crispus], G[aius pseudo-]: ‘Inuectiua in Ciceronem'. [Sal.] Cic. On the authorship see S‑013.
s5v Cicero, M[arcus] T[ullius pseudo-]: ‘Responsio contra C. Salustium'. [Cic.] Sal. On the authorship see S‑013.
t1v Sallustius Crispus, [Gaius pseudo-]: ‘Oratio responsiua in M. T. Ciceronem'. [Sal.] Cic. On the authorship see S‑013.
Imprint
Imprint: [Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, c.1494-1500]. Folio.
Remarks: This edition seems to be closely based on Brescia: Bernardinus de Misintis, for Angelus and Jacobus Britannicus, 1495 (S‑032). Pr confuses Goff S‑81 and S‑84.
Collation
Collation: a–d6 e4 f–s6 t4.
Illustrations: Woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: is00082300
Hain: HC 14229;
Goff: Goff S‑81;
BMC: BMC V 474;
Proctor: Pr 5255;
Others: BSB‑Ink S‑49; CIBN S‑44; Essling 51; Sack, Freiburg, 3135; Sander 6677; Sheppard 4333-4.
LCN: 14074342, 14077059
Copies
Copy number: S-033(1)
Binding: Late eighteenth-century mottled calf; faded sprinkled red-edged leaves; green pastedowns.
Size: 315 × 213 × 28 mm.
Size of leaf: 310 × 202 mm.
A few marginal notes on the Bellum Catilinae in a sixteenth-century Italian hand, supplying underlining, synonyms, and corrections to the text, and extracting key phrases.
Provenance: Anonymous monogram ‘D† B' in brown ink in a contemporary hand; Sheppard suggests Italy. Frederick William Chaundy. Leslie Frederick Chaundy; ‘Chaundy, Oxford Nov. 1918' on the verso of the front endleaf. Purchased for £0. 35. 0 in 1918; see Annual Report of the Curators of the Bodleian Library, Oxford University Gazette, 26 Feb. 1919, 299.
SHELFMARK: Inc. c. I4.2.
Copy number: S-033(2)
Bound after S‑031; see there for details of binding and provenance.
Size of leaf: 209 × 139 mm.
Containing leaves e2 –t4 only.
Marginal and interlinear notes in a contemporary German hand (see S‑031), mainly supplying synonyms, corrections, and some comments on the text.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 3.18(2).
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