tis00084000

Text-inc Id:

tis00084000

Bod-inc Id:

S-034

Headings:

Sallustius Crispus, Gaius Opera: Bellum Catilinae (comm. Laurentius Valla); Bellum Iugurthinum (comm. Johannes Chrysostomus Soldus), et al. (ed. Pomponius Laetus, rev. Johannes Britannicus).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a1v Laetus, Julius Pomponius: [Letter addressed to] Augustinus Maffeus. Incipit: ‘M. Valerius Probus unicae uetustatis amator cum animaduertisset . . .’ On this preface see S‑028.
3. a2r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Bellum Catilinae. ‘De coniuratione L. Ser. Catilinae'. All works in this volume are edited by Pomponius Laetus, see his prefatory letter and title-page, and revised by Johannes Britannicus. Sal. Cat.
4. a2r Valla, Laurentius: ‘In C. Crispi Salustii Catilinarium Comentarii'. Incipit: ‘[O]mnis homines [Sal. Cat. I.1] Patritia gente Crispus Salustius Romae natus . . .’ See S‑028.
5. e2r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomeus Soldus. Incipit: ‘Dedi operam mi frater, ut Salustii de bello Iugurthino interpretationem incoharem . . .’ See S‑032.
6. e2r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: [Letter addressed to] Bartholomeus Soldus. Incipit: ‘Mitto ad te expositionem in Salustium de bello Iugurthino sicuti eram pollicitus . . .’ See S‑032.
7. e2v [Soldus] Johannes Chrysostomus: [Life of Sallust.] Incipit: ‘Salustius ciuis Romanus Senatorii ordinis fuit . . .’ See S‑032.
8. e3r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Bellum Iugurthinum. ‘De Bello Iugurthino'. Sal. Jug.
9. e3r [Soldus], Johannes Chrysostomus: ‘Commentaria in bellum Iugurthinum'. Incipit: ‘[F]also queritur [Sal. Jug. I.1]. Iniuste, inquit, homines conqueruntur de natura sua . . .’
10. q3v Porcius Latro, [Marcus pseudo-]: ‘Declamatio contra Lucium Sergium Catilinam'. Incipit: ‘[S]i quid precibus apud deos immortales sanctissimi iudices uobiscum aliquando ualuissemus . . .’ See S‑028.
11. r3r Sallustius Crispus, G[aius]: Ex libris Historiarum [orationes]. ‘Oratio Lepidi consulis ad populum'. Sal. Hist. See S‑028.
12. s1r [Sallustius Crispus, Gaius pseudo-(?): Epistulae] ad Caesarem senem de re publica. Sal. Epist. For the ascription of this work to Sallust see S‑028.
13. s5r [Laetus, Julius Pomponius]: ‘C. Crispi Salustii Vita.’ Ullman, ‘Dedication Copy', 368. See S‑028.
14. s5r Sallustius [Crispus], G[aius pseudo-]: ‘Inuectiua in Ciceronem'. [Sal.] Cic. On the authorship see S‑013.
15. s5v Cicero, M[arcus] T[ullius pseudo-]: ‘Responsio contra C. Salustium'. [Cic.] Sal. On the authorship see S‑013.
16. t1v Sallustius Crispus, [Gaius pseudo-]: ‘Oratio responsiua in M. T. Ciceronem'. [Sal.] Cic. On the authorship see S‑013.

Imprint:

[Venice: Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello, c.1497]. Folio. Pr confuses Goff S‑81 and S‑84.

Collation:

a–d⁶ e⁴ f–s⁶ t⁴. Woodcut initials.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00084000 HC 14228; Goff S‑84. BMC V 474; Pr 5058, 5255; BSB‑Ink S‑56; Sander 6676; Sheppard 4335-6. LCN: 14077141

Copies:

1. S-034(1) First copy Binding: Blind-tooled calf, c.1700; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; sprinkled red-edged leaves. Size: 310 × 215 × 24 mm. Size of leaf: 304 × 196 mm. Provenance: Johannes Baptista Boerius (sixteenth century?), Germany(?); ‘Joannis Baptistae Boerii liber' on a1v. Camillus(?) Boerius (seventeenth century?); ‘C[am]illi Boerij' cancelled on a1r. Richard Furney (†1753); see ‘Catalogus Bibliothecae Novae', fol. 80^r. Bequeathed by Furney in 1755; see Benefactors' Register II (no page): ‘C. Crispus Salustius cum Comm. Laur. Vallensis in Bellum Catilinarum et J. Chrysostomi in Bellum Jugurthinum Patavii 1470'. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.23.
2. S-034(2) Second copy Bound with C‑286; see there for details of binding and provenance. Size of leaf: 311 × 206 mm. Marginal notes on the Bellum Iugurthinum in a c.1500 Northern European hand, supplying underlining, brackets, and comments on the text, and extracting key phrases. A few notes in Bocher's hand. Some notes in the hand of Nathaniel Crynes, mainly correcting and commenting on the text. SHELFMARK: Auct. N 3.24(1).