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Opera.

Accession number
PML 198242.1
Creator
Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Object title

Opera.

Published

Venetiis : per Baptistam de tortis, Mcccclxxxi die xxiii decembris [23 December 1481]

Description

[52] leaves ; 30 x 21 cm (folio)

Credit line
Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 2019.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from second colophon, leaf h8v: Venetiis per Baptistam de tortis. M.cccclxxxi. die .xxiii. decembris.
First colophon, leaf h4r: Crispi Salustii opus feliciter impressum Venetiis. M.cccc.lxxxi.
Printed in de Tortis's type 1:114R.
Signatures: a⁸ b-g⁶ h⁸: 52 leaves, leaf a1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
1 column, 36 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
"An exact reprint of the unsigned edition of 1480 attributed to N. Girardengus." cf. B.M.C.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.
Binding
15th-century German blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards (30 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 4 supports by Paulus R. of Heidelberg (active ca. 1476-1499; EBDB w000004/Kryiss 58). Plain paper pastedowns; plaited endbands. 2 clasps, missing.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary contents list, in hand not found in annotations (front pastedown). Contemporary interlinear and marginal notations in at least 2 different hands throughout, more predominant in quires a-c, including citations from early 16th-century printed texts. Manuscript titles added to fore edge, top edge, and front board.
Provenance
Ottobeuren (Bavaria), Benedictines, inscription (abraded, visible under UV from verso): "Monrij Ottobeuren," 18th century (leaf a2r of Sallust); unidentified shelfmark or dealer code: "No. 2590 -/1-0," perhaps 18th or early 19th century (leaf a1r of Sallust); Morgan Library & Museum, purchased from Maggs Bros. on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, April 2019.
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Department