Caii Crispi Salustii de bello Catilinario liber incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 47567
Author: 
Sallust, 86-34 B.C.
Published: 
Impressus Parisius : I[n] vico Sancti Jacobi in intersignio follis viridis, Mil.cccc.lxxix. [1479]
Description: 
[86] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1956.
Notes: 

Title from caption, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf i6r.
Printed in Louis Symonel et Socii's type 1b:107R.
Au Soufflet vert printers include Louis Symonel, Richard Blandin, and Johann Simon(?).
Signatures: a-h¹⁰ i⁶: 86 leaves. Signed to the sheet.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.6 x 13.5 cm.

Binding: 
19th-century blind-tooled full brown goatskin, in a pastiche of an early style, over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Simier. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Title in ISTC: Opera

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Some underlining of text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified shelfmark(?): Cy 6 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from G.G. Heilbrun, March 1956.
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