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April 1509
SALLUST. De coniuratione Catilinae -De bello Iugurthino -Oratio contra M.T. Ciceronem. -CICERO (falsely attributed to). Oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. -CICERO. Orationes quatuor contra Lucium Catilinam. -PORCIUS LATRO, Marcus (d. 4 A.D.) Declamatio contra Lucium Catilinam. -SALLUST. Orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum. Ed. Aldo Manuzio. Aldine 8° (156 x 97mm). Collation: a8 (1r title and device 3, 1v dedication, 2v extract on Sallust from Petrus Crinitus's De historicis ac oratoribus latinis, 5r life of Sallust, 6r extracts from Pliny, 7v extracts from Gellius, 8v blank); b-s8 t4 (b1r Catilina, e1v Jugurtha, l2v blank, l3r Against Cicero, l4v Against Sallust, l8v Cicero against Catiline, p4r Latro against Catiline, r2r orations from Sallust, t4r colophon and register, t4v device 3). 148 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline, paginated. Initial-spaces with guide-letters for illumination (two completed).
PREFACE: Dedicated to General Bartolomeo d'Alviani, whose brilliant victory in March 1508 over the imperialists near Cadore brought a false sense of security to Venice. Aldus relates how Janus Lascaris and Giocondo of Verona brought him two ancient Sallust manuscripts from Paris to print [see L.D. Reynolds, Texts and Transmission p. 341-47 for the large number of early French codices extant of Catilina and Jugurtha]. An example will demonstrate that it is immediately apparent that they are more correct than other codices ... He dedicates the book to Alviano, because he has equalled in courage and skill the generals whose deeds are described and because he has often urged Aldus to publish in handy format books of the deeds of great men, so that they can be more easily taken into battle.
BINDING: French red straight-grained morocco gilt ca. 1800, panelled sides, spine tooled in compartments, edges gilt, a pair of vellum flyleaves, Aldine device block added to the centre of both covers probably by Storr of Grantham. PROVENANCE: two contemporary French illuminated initials; Sir John Thorold (1734-1815) and his son Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park armorial bookplate and binding-embellishment
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. The Sallust is one of the rare examples where Aldus was anticipated by the Lyonese counterfeiters of his Latin octavos in italics: one edition by T. Murchius (Shaw 16), the other edited by B. Fidelis and published by Barthélemy Trot (Shaw 44). Both appeared in 1504 and offered a similar collection of texts, but omitting the Cicero. A 1508 Parisian edition by Badius Ascensius, with Cicero's orations, also preceded the Venetian edition. The precise Aldine version was then promptly pirated by Trot in 1510 (Shaw 55). FINE COPY. Isaac 12821; Adams S-139; Dionisotti & Orlandi LXVIII; Murphy 86; Sansoviniana 123; Laurenziana 105; R 57:3
SALLUST. De coniuratione Catilinae -De bello Iugurthino -Oratio contra M.T. Ciceronem. -CICERO (falsely attributed to). Oratio contra C. Crispum Sallustium. -CICERO. Orationes quatuor contra Lucium Catilinam. -PORCIUS LATRO, Marcus (d. 4 A.D.) Declamatio contra Lucium Catilinam. -SALLUST. Orationes quaedam ex libris historiarum. Ed. Aldo Manuzio. Aldine 8° (156 x 97mm). Collation: a8 (1r title and device 3, 1v dedication, 2v extract on Sallust from Petrus Crinitus's De historicis ac oratoribus latinis, 5r life of Sallust, 6r extracts from Pliny, 7v extracts from Gellius, 8v blank); b-s8 t4 (b1r Catilina, e1v Jugurtha, l2v blank, l3r Against Cicero, l4v Against Sallust, l8v Cicero against Catiline, p4r Latro against Catiline, r2r orations from Sallust, t4r colophon and register, t4v device 3). 148 leaves. Italic type 1:80. 30 lines and headline, paginated. Initial-spaces with guide-letters for illumination (two completed).
PREFACE: Dedicated to General Bartolomeo d'Alviani, whose brilliant victory in March 1508 over the imperialists near Cadore brought a false sense of security to Venice. Aldus relates how Janus Lascaris and Giocondo of Verona brought him two ancient Sallust manuscripts from Paris to print [see L.D. Reynolds, Texts and Transmission p. 341-47 for the large number of early French codices extant of Catilina and Jugurtha]. An example will demonstrate that it is immediately apparent that they are more correct than other codices ... He dedicates the book to Alviano, because he has equalled in courage and skill the generals whose deeds are described and because he has often urged Aldus to publish in handy format books of the deeds of great men, so that they can be more easily taken into battle.
BINDING: French red straight-grained morocco gilt ca. 1800, panelled sides, spine tooled in compartments, edges gilt, a pair of vellum flyleaves, Aldine device block added to the centre of both covers probably by Storr of Grantham. PROVENANCE: two contemporary French illuminated initials; Sir John Thorold (1734-1815) and his son Sir John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), Syston Park armorial bookplate and binding-embellishment
FIRST ALDINE EDITION. The Sallust is one of the rare examples where Aldus was anticipated by the Lyonese counterfeiters of his Latin octavos in italics: one edition by T. Murchius (Shaw 16), the other edited by B. Fidelis and published by Barthélemy Trot (Shaw 44). Both appeared in 1504 and offered a similar collection of texts, but omitting the Cicero. A 1508 Parisian edition by Badius Ascensius, with Cicero's orations, also preceded the Venetian edition. The precise Aldine version was then promptly pirated by Trot in 1510 (Shaw 55). FINE COPY. Isaac 12821; Adams S-139; Dionisotti & Orlandi LXVIII; Murphy 86; Sansoviniana 123; Laurenziana 105; R 57:3