Details

Subject(s)

• Catiline approximately 108 B.C.-62 B.C.—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Jugurthine War, 111-105 B.C.—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Rome—History—Conspiracy of Catiline, 65-62 B.C.—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Latin—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Medieval—Italy [Browse]
• Manuscripts, Medieval—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]
• Illumination of books and manuscripts [Browse]

Former owner

Kane, Grenville, 1854-1943 [Browse]

Bookseller

Voynich, Wilfred Michael, 1865-1930 [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Kane MS. 32. [Browse]

Contains

• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. Bellum Catilinae. [Browse]
• Sallust, 86 B.C.-34 B.C. Bellum Jugurthinum. [Browse]

Notes

• Script: Humanistica antiqua.
• Decoration: Sallust's Catilinae coniuratio and Bellum Iugurthinum open with 5-line gold initials, with white vine-stem on blue, green, and pink fields, outlined in deep blue with tiny triple white dots, with penwork extending into the margins ending in gold lunettes (fol. 1r) and triangles (fol. 29v).

Binding note

France, 19th century. Light brown calf over binder's boards, gilt-tooled rectangle along the perimeter and along board edges; floral tooling along turn-ins.

Provenance

Kane Ms. 32 was probably produced in Genoa in the mid-15th century. A 5-line dated colophon has been vigorously erased, but a few words are visible under ultraviolet light. The manuscript belonged to Jacobus de Furnareis. His late 15th- or early 16th-century ex libris is on fol. 88r. 539. Intermediate provenance is unknown. It belonged to the French collector Jean Baptiste Joseph Barrois (1785?-1855), from whom it was acquired in 1849 by Bertram, 4th earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878). passed by descent to Bertram, 5th earl of Ashburnham (1840-1913). Ashburnham sold the collection at auction at Sotheby's, London. At the Ashburnham sale, T.W. Greene, Esq., probably the son of the British barrister Thomas Webb Greene (1804-1875), purchased the manuscript. In 1931 the London and New York antiquarian bookseller Wilfrid M. Voynich (1865-1930) sold the manuscript to Grenville Kane (1854-1943), of Tuxedo Park, N.Y. The Kane Collection was acquired by the Princeton University Library from Kane's heirs in February 1946.

References

Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, volume 2, page 73-75.

Cite as

Kane MS. 32, Manuscripts Division, Department of Rare Books and Special Collections, Princeton University Library.

Other title(s)

Bellum Iugurthinum

OCLC

1103840908

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