Beinecke MS 231                                                          Italy, s. XV
Sallust

     1. f. i recto-verso ruled, but blank; ff. 1r-29v    [Title, in a later
     hand:] Conjuratio Catalinae. [text:] Omnis homines qui student sese
     praestare coeteris animalibus summa ope niti decet...ita uarie per
     omnem exercitum letitia meror luctus atque gaudia agitabantur.

     Catalinae conjuratio; A. Kurfess, ed. (Teubner, 1968) pp. 2-52.

     2. ff. 29v-89r    [Title, in a later hand:] Bellum Iugurthinum. [text:]
     Falso queritur de natura sua Genus humanum quod imbeccilla atque eui
     breuis sorte potius...Ea tempestate Spes atque Opes Diuitatis in illo
     sitae sunt. [added below by a later hand:] Finis 1430 Finis Belli
     Jugurthini. ff. 89v-90v ruled, but blank

     Bellum Jugurthinum; A. Kurfess, op. cit., pp. 53-147.

          Parchment, ff. i (parchment) + i (paper) + 91 (foliated i, 1-90) +
     i (paper) + i (parchment), 245 x 125 (180 x 68) mm. Written in 33 long
     lines; double vertical bounding lines. Ruled in crayon; prickings in
     upper and lower margins.
          I^^10 (+ 1 at beginning), II-IX^^10. Catchwords in center of lower
     margin, accompanied by four dots and/or flourishes; remains of leaf
     signatures (e.g., e/2. e/3, etc.) on recto.
          Written by a single scribe in neat sloping italic; notes and
	corrections in several later hands.
          Two gold initials, 5- and 4-line, of indifferent quality on ff. 1r
     and 29v, embedded in white vine ornament extending into margins on
     green, red, and blue grounds, decorated with white dots; gold dots and
     brown hair-spray. On f. 1v, a coat of arms, unidentified (per pale,
     azure, a bend or with 3 stars of the field, between 2 fleur-de-lis or;
     gules, a lion rampant argent, overall a bendlet vert), supported by two
     putti, set in a panel of white vine ornament, as above. 2-line
     initials, gold or blue, throughout.
          Binding: s. xix. Edges gilt. Blue goatskin, gold-tooled by Ramage.

          Written in central Italy in the 15th century; early provenance
     unknown (unidentified arms on f. 1r). Belonged to Henry Huth (1815-78;
     bookplate; see The Huth Library [London, 1880] v. 4, p. 1291) and to
     Albert May Todd (1850-1931; bookplate). Sold by Parke-Bernet Galleries,
     14 Nov. 1941, to Henry Fletcher; gift of Mrs. Henry Fletcher in 1953.

     secundo folio: [ple]rique delicta

     Bibliography: Faye and Bond, p. 44, no. 231.

     Barbara A. Shailor