Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Opera.
[Venice]: Filippo di Pietro, 22 June 1478.
Fol. a-c8 d-e6 f-g8. [52] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC is00063000; GW M39604; Goff S63; BMC V 220 (IB. 20161); Bod-inc S-021; CIBN S-32; BSB-Ink S-37.
Contents: De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino. Add: Vita Sallustii. [Pseudo-] Sallustius: Invectiva in Ciceronem. Martialis: Distichon. [Pseudo-] Cicero: Responsio in Sallustium.
| GIP number: | S6 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.16 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Provenance: | Unidentified German owner; painted coat of arms on a3r: within a pink disc (representing a wax seal?) on a shield argent (oxidized) a lion rampant azure (the 'Veldenz' lion), crowned or, tongue gules, talons or, with a bar gemel gules superimposed. Bamberg, Bavaria, Jesuits: inscription on a2r “Bambergensis Collegij Societatis Jesv 1619”. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Au.5.15”. |
| Binding: | 18th-century mottled calf; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 296 x 210 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 289 x 204 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in a 15th/16th-century hand; single marginal annotation in a later hand on c1r; occasional interlinear corrections of text; occasional “nota” marks, underlining and manicules; 18th-century price in pencil “1 1 0” scored through on front free endpaper, together with the number “6”(?) in ink. |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial ‘O’ on a3r supplied in shades of pink to represent foliage and set on a square blue ground (also with a foliate design), which is edged in dull gold and brown; a similarly decorated seven-line initial ‘F’ on c2v; other initials supplied in blue or maroon, often with marginal flourishing; unidentified painted coat of arms on a3r (see Provenance). |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
