Sallustius Crispus, Gaius: Opera.
Contents: De coniuratione Catilinae; De bello Jugurthino. Add: Vita Sallustii. [Pseudo-] Sallustius: Invectiva in Ciceronem. [Pseudo-] Cicero: Responsio in Sallustium.
[Fivizzano: Jacobus de Fivizzano, Lunensis], 1474.
4to. [110 212 3-78 86]. [68] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC is00057000; GW M39631; Goff S57; Bod-inc S-016; CIBN S-25.
| GIP number: | S5 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bw.2.23 (see main library entry for this item ) |
| Provenance: | Joseph Smith (1682-1770), British Consul in Venice: armorial book-plate (overlaid with Hunterian book-plate); sale (1773), lot 1781. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Smith sale for £3.4.0; see annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue. |
| Binding: | Italy, 18th-century parchment, black leather title label on spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; green silk bookmark; inner leaves of each quire guarded with thin parchment strips. Size: 275 x 197 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 268 x 190 mm. |
| Annotations: | Early catchwords in ink on the final verso of each quire; traces of early signatures; a few leaves have an early foliation; occasional marginal and interlinear annotations in an early hand (many faded); a few manicules; seven lines of Italian verse in a humanist hand at foot of 8/6r (f. 68r). |
| Decoration: | Many initials and a few paragraph marks supplied in red; some capitals and the roman numerals of the date on 8/6r (f. 68r) supplied with red strokes. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the first blank leaf; worming in final two leaves affecting a few letters. |
