(Q3307)
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Crispi Sallustii de Catheline conjuracione liber ; Jugurtinum bellum eiusdem.
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Bellum Catilinae
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Maffei, Mario, 1463-1537
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Carilli, Clemente
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Saccardini, Giuseppe Antonio
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Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
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Rome--History--Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C
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[between 1455 and 1465?]
15. century
1455Gregorian
1465Gregorian
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Extent: 160 leaves : parchment, color illustrations ; 172 x 112 (111 x 72) mm bound to 184 x 120 mm
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Foliation: Parchment, i + 160 + i; 1-160 ; contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto.
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Origin: Possibly written in Padua, between 1455 and 1465.
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Title from rubrics (f. 1r, 53r).
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Binding: Contemporary Italian blind-tooled goatskin over wooden boards; remnants of three clasps and red silk straps, one in the center of each edge; spine largely gone; pastedowns and conjugate flyleaves from a 14th-century manuscript, possibly a grammatical text, written in littera bononiensis with red or blue initials with contrasting flourishing, very faded.
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Decoration: 1 6-line illuminated initial in blue, red, and green on gold (f. 1r); 1 5-line initial in gold on a shaped ground of white vine work filled with red, green, and blue (f. 53v); partially effaced coat of arms (f. 1r); 2- and 3-line initials alternately in red or blue; rubrics and some annotations in faded red ink.
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Ms. codex.
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Script: Written in a humanistic book script.
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Layout: Written in 22 long lines ; frame-ruled in drypoint.
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Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2012.
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Formerly owned by Giuseppe Antonio Saccardini di Volterra dated 1666 (verso of back flyleaf).
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Copied for and owned by members of the Maffei family of Volterra, west of Siena (coat of arms, f. 1r; erased inscription of Mario Maffei and possible 16th-century reference to his descendents, verso of back flyleaf).
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Formerly owned by Clemented Carilli da Volterra, 17th century (inscription, f. 155v).
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Sold at auction at Christie's, 7 June 2000, lot 9, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
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27 August 2023
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27 August 2023
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