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Humanist copy of Sallust's works on the history of Rome, with contemporary and later annotations, including alternate readings, some of which were incorporated into the text as corrections.
Support: parchment; Extent: 160 leaves : 172 x 112 (111 x 72) mm bound to 184 x 120 mm; Foliation: Parchment, i + 160 + i; 1-160 ; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
Written in 22 long lines ; frame-ruled in drypoint.
Written in a humanistic book script.
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.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).
2. f.53r-160v: Jugurtinum bellum.
1. f.1r-53r: De Catheline conjuracione liber.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Padua?, Italy
Possibly written in Padua, between 1455 and 1465.
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.
Latin
Sold at auction at Christie's, 7 June 2000, lot 9, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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).
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Formerly owned by Clemented Carilli da Volterra, 17th century (inscription, f. 155v).
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini di Volterra dated 1666 (verso of back flyleaf).
Padua?, Italy
Possibly written in Padua, between 1455 and 1465.
Latin
Sold at auction at Christie's, 7 June 2000, lot 9, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Copied for and owned by members of the Maffei family of Volterra, west of Siena
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
Formerly owned by Clemented Carilli da Volterra, 17th century
Formerly owned by Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini di Volterra dated 1666
Humanist copy of Sallust's works on the history of Rome, with contemporary and later annotations, including alternate readings, some of which were incorporated into the text as corrections.
Ms. codex.
Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).
2. f.53r-160v: Jugurtinum bellum.
1. f.1r-53r: De Catheline conjuracione liber.
Written in a humanistic book script.
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.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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