University of Pennsylvania, LJS 381

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS634

Shelfmark:

LJS 381

Title:

Crispi Sallustii de Catheline conjuracione liber ; Jugurtinum bellum eiusdem.

Author:

Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C

Sallust WIKIDATA

Place:

Padua?, Italy

Padua TGN

Date:

[between 1455 and 1465?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 160 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 172 x 112 (111 x 72) mm bound to 184 x 120 mm

Former Owner(s):

Maffei, Mario, 1463-1537

Mario Maffei WIKIDATA

Carilli, Clemente

Clemente Carilli WIKIDATA

Saccardini, Giuseppe Antonio

Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini WIKIDATA

Note:

Foliation: Parchment, i + 160 + i; 1-160 ; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Origin: Possibly written in Padua, between 1455 and 1465.
Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).
Binding: Contemporary Italian blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards; remnants of three clasps and red silk straps, one in the center of each edge; spine largely gone; pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves from a 14th-century manuscript, possibly a grammatical text, written in littera bononiensis with red or blue initials with contrasting flourishing, very faded.
Decoration: 1 6-line illuminated initial in blue, red, and green on gold (f. 1r); 1 5-line initial in gold on a shaped ground of white vine work filled with red, green, and blue (f. 53v); partially effaced coat of arms (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials alternately in red or blue; rubrics and some annotations in faded red ink.
Ms. codex.
Script: Written in a humanistic book script.
Layout: Written in 22 long lines ; frame-ruled in drypoint.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini di Volterra dated 1666 (verso of back flyleaf).
Copied for and owned by members of the Maffei family of Volterra, west of Siena (coat of arms, f. 1r; erased inscription of Mario Maffei and possible 16th-century reference to his descendents, verso of back flyleaf).
Formerly owned by Clemented Carilli da Volterra, 17th century (inscription, f. 155v).
Sold at auction at Christie's, 7 June 2000, lot 9, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.

Keyword:

histories (literary genre)

annotations

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Latin

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Rome (Empire)

Jugurthine War (111-105 B.C.)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9946491823503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3qv3c451/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania