Script: 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: Nineteenth century. Edges gilt. Blue goatskin, gold-tooled by Ramage.

In Latin.

Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.

Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, MS 231.

Sallust, Catalinae Conjuratio and Bellum Jugurthinum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven.

Rome > History > Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.

Rome > History, Military > 265-30 B.C.