University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1042

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS872

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1042

Title:

Bellum Catilinae ; Bellum Jugurthinum.

Author:

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

Sallust WIKIDATA

Place:

Spain

Spain TGN

Date:

[between 1470 and 1499?]

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 149 leaves : paper ; 219 x 150 (157 x 92) mm bound to 220 x 150 mm

Note:

Binding: Half calf over wooden boards. Some evidence of worm damage.
Origin: Written in Spain in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).
Title supplied by cataloger.
Ms. codex.
Decoration: Spaces and guide letters for illuminated initials that were never added.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand.
Incipit (1st work): Crispus Sallustius vir patritius ab ineunte etate bonis artibus inbutus ad rem publicam gerendam animam applicuit.
Collation: Paper, 150; 1-10¹⁴ 11¹⁰; [i], 1-4, [i], 6-149; near-contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto. Catchwords on last verso of most gatherings.
Alphonsus Kurfess issued an edition of the Invectiva and Responsio (5th and 6th works) in In Ciceronem et invicem invectiva (Teubner, 1970).
Layout: Written in 16 long lines; full-length bounding lines in lead; pricking visible on later pages.
Sold by Laurence Witten (New Haven), 1959.

Keyword:

poems

codices (bound manuscripts)

biographies (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Latin

histories (literary genre)

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.

Rome (Empire)

Jugurthine War (111-105 B.C.)

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9939592023503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3zg6g824/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania