Accession number:
PML 21241
Published:
[Italy] : [Printer of Sallustius 'Opera' (H 14196)], .M. CCCC. LXX. [1470]
Description:
[56] leaves ; 28 cm. (fol. and 4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1921.
Notes:
Title from incipit at head of leaf [a]1r.
Date from colophon on leaf [f]6v; other imprint details supplied from ISTC. Exact place of publication in Italy is unknown, although the affinities of the type are with Roman and Venetian models - cf. BM 15th cent.
Printed in type 1:106R.
The book is found in both Chancery folio and Royal quarto formats, but with same collation.
Collation: [a-b¹⁰; c-e¹⁰ f⁶]: 56 leaves, leaf [b]10 blank.
Binding:
18th-century gilt-tooled black hard-grained morocco over paper boards (26.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports, with Cortina's gilt-tooled armorial added in 19th century. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
C. Salustii Crispi De coniuratione Catiline. Proemium
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary (German?) alternating red and blue lombards. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance:
Joachim Gomez de la Cortina, Marqués de Morante (1808-1868), Bibliotheca Cortina bookplate (front pastedown) and armorial binding; his sale, Paris, part I, 21 Feb. 1872, lot 1574; Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown); Huth sale, Sotheby's, pt. VII, 8 July 1918, lot 6542; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, 1921.
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