The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, mssHM 1039
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS9921
- Shelfmark:
- mssHM 1039
- Title:
- De coniuratione Catiline et Bellum Jugurthinum
- Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
- Place:
- Italy
- Date:
- 15th century
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Extent: ff. 119 : parchment ; 131 x 180 mm
- Former Owner(s):
- Poor, Henry W. 1844-1915
- Note:
- Title from printed catalog.
Support: Parchment.
Script: Humanistic; Square capitals.
Layout: 1-1210(the last folio of the last quire now as pastedown). Catchwords written vertically between inner bounding lines through quire 8. 21 long lines, ruled in hard point, with double vertical bounding lines and top and bottom 2 lines full across; pricking visible on last quire.
Other Decoration: On f. 1, gold initial, 4-line, with white vine-stem infilling and C-shaped border decorated at the corners with an owl, a butterfly and clusters of gold dots; on ff. 3 and 40, gold initials, 3- and 4- line, on a blue, yellow and red ground; on ff. 42, 94v, 100v and 114v, 2-line blue initials; 1-line initials in ink of text placed outside of ruled space.
Assigned Date: s. XV.
Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 7/31/2012.
Two unidentified early owners: in the lower margin of f. 1, an erased coat of arms within a crown of laurel leaves; in the right margin, a later coat of arms tied to a lion's head with a red ribbon: azure, a calf salient parted or and argent. Belonged, s. XVII, to "Bartolomeo" whose ex libris is on f. i: "Hunc ego nempe librum possideo Bartolomeus __one word erased___"; later owned by... - Keyword:
- Institutional Record:
- https://catalog.huntington.org/record=b1862153
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://cdm16003.contentdm.oclc.org/iiif/p15150coll7:52054/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
