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MS. Rawl. G. 140

Summary Catalogue no.: 14864

Contents

1. (fol. 1)
Sallust, Catilina
Rubric: ... Crispi Salustij De coniuratione Catiline
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 33
Sallust, Jugurtha
Rubric: ... eiusdem de bello gesto... cum Iugurtha rege Numidarum
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: paper
Extent: v + 99 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 12.5 × 9 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script (Pächt and Alexander ii. 659)

Decoration

Pächt and Alexander ii. 659

Good historiated border

Good initial

History

Origin: 15th century, second quarter ; Italy, Bologna (?)

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms, fol. 1: argent (?) a horse sable bridled gules, in sinister chief an escalop sable

'Pertinet Francisco de Busleyden liber iste' (16th century), fol. iv [François de Busleyden, d. 1502 (?)]

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (July 2024) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1966)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 368

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2024-07-08: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)