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MS. Rawl. G. 42

Summary Catalogue no.: 14773

Contents

1. (fol. 3)
Sallust, Catilina
Rubric: Crispi Salustii De coniuratione Catiline liber...
Language(s): Latin
2. (fol. 57)
Sallust, Jugurtha
Rubric: Crispi Salustii De bello Iugurtino liber...
Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex
Support: parchment
Extent: i + 163 leaves
Dimensions (binding): 8 × 5 in.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script

Decoration

By the same hand as the Cockerwell Cicero (written in 1442 by Domenico di Cassio di Narni in the house of the Carmelites in Florence, Sotheby's 3 April 1957, lot 12; Christie's, 'The library of Willia Foyle', 2000, lot 79, attributed by A. C. de la Mare to Joacchinus de Gigantibus) (Pächt and Alexander ii. 229, Pl. XXI):

Fine historiated border.

Fine historiated initials.

Fine other initials.

The first page is written in silver.

History

Origin: c. 1440–1450 ; Italy, Florence

Provenance and Acquisition

Arms partly erased, fol. 3, azure a fess, over an undecipherable charge.

Walter Clavell, sale, 8o, lot 72. (B. J. Enright, 'Richard Rawlinson: collector, antiquary, and topographer', D.Phil thesis, Oxford, 1957, app B.)

Richard Rawlinson, 1690–1755

Bequeathed to the Bodleian in 1755

Record Sources

Description adapted (November 2023) by Stewart J. Brookes from the Summary Catalogue (1895). Decoration, localization and date follow Pächt and Alexander (1970)
Summary Catalogue, Vol. 3, p. 349

Digital Images

Digital Bodleian (2 images from 35mm slides)

Abbreviations

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Last Substantive Revision

2023-11-29: Description revised to incorporate all the information in the Summary Catalogue (1895)