Accession number
PML 20455
Creator
Sallust, 86-34 B.C.
Object title
Crispi Salustii De coniuratione Catilinae liber incipit.
Published
Impressum Florentiae : Apud Sanctum Iacobum de Ripoli, MCCCCLXXVIII [1478]
Description
[50] leaves ; 29 cm. (fol. and 4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf a2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf f7r.
Printed in type 4:105R.
Signatures: a⁸ b¹⁰ c-f⁸: 50 leaves, leaves a1 and f8 blank.
Capital spaces, most with guide letters. Type 4:105R.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 19.2 cm., trimmed. Chancery folio only.
PMl copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and f8 (blanks).
Imprint from colophon, leaf f7r.
Printed in type 4:105R.
Signatures: a⁸ b¹⁰ c-f⁸: 50 leaves, leaves a1 and f8 blank.
Capital spaces, most with guide letters. Type 4:105R.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.1 x 19.2 cm., trimmed. Chancery folio only.
PMl copy missing 2 leaves: a1 and f8 (blanks).
Binding
19th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (28.5 x 19.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports by Francis Bedford. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Crispi Salvstii De conivratione Catilinae liber incipit
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Illegible contemporary marginal notations throughtout, washed/faded.
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, part 7, Sotheby's, 1 July 1918, lot 6545, to Bernard Quaritch for £22; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1919.
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