Hoc in uolumine haec continentur : Pomponii epistola ad Augustinum Mapheum. C. Crispi Salustii bellum Catilinarium cum commento Laurentii Uallensis. Portii Latronis Declamatio contra L. Catilinam. C. Crispi Salustii bellum iugurtinum cum commentariis preclarissimi fratris Ioannis Chrysostomi Soldi Brixiani. C. Crispi Salustii uariae rationes ex libris eiusdem historiarum exceptae. C. Crispi Salustii uita. Romae per Pomponium emendata Brixiaeq[ue] per Ioannem Britannicum diligentissime reuisa..
Sallust,86 B.C.-34 B.C.
Pensis, Christophorus de,active 1487-1503,printer.
Leto, Giulio Pomponio,1428-1497.
Britannico, Giovanni,active 15th century-16th century.
Valla, Lorenzo,1407-1457.
Soldus, Joannes Chrysostomus.
Porcius Latro, Marcus,57-4 B.C.
John Grant Booksellers,bookseller.StEdNL
[Venice : Christophorus de Pensis, de Mandello,
after 14 Nov. 1495]
Imprint from ISTC.
A page-for-page reprint of another de Pensis edition (Goff S81, undated, but after 14 November 1495). This edition has readings "iugurtinum" and "Ioannis" on title page; the earlier ed. has readings "Iugurtinum" and "Ioa[n]nis."
Edited by Pomponius Laetus and Joannes Britannicus.
Includes commentaries by Laurentius Valla and Joannes Chrysostomus Soldus.
The Declamatio contra L. Catalinam is an anonymous work, wrongly ascribed to M. Porcius Latro.
Signatures: a-d⁶ e⁴ f-s⁶ t⁴.
With a final blank leaf.
Woodcut ill. at head of title, with caption: Ioannes Bri. Salustius Laurentius.
Text surrounded by 59-60 lines of commentary.
White-on-black woodcut initials; a few initial spaces, with guide-letters.
With notes in an early Italian hand and interlinear English glosses in an early 17th-century hand.
Bound with Inc.205.
Hain-Copinger
Proctor
Goff
Sander
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Price £8/8/- on manuscript waste at front. Bought by the Library from John Grant with the Lauriston Castle Fund 8 September 1943.
Old, probably original, brown stamped leather over wooden boards with contemporary vellum legal manuscript waste pastedowns cum endpapers.
Catiline, approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.
Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.
Italy Venice.