Described Hardwick & Luard: iv.477.

[1]

f. 1

How moche salustius is to be praysed afore oder wryters of histories in the laten tonge wintilianus declarith in that he gevith hym the laude above thucidides whiche by the iugement of hym and many oder famose clerkes excellid ferre herodotus or livius marcialis also that noble poete …

f. 1v

… from the rude and derke stile to the good and commendable kynde of wryting thus therfore the more boldly i entre into the mater.

Preface to the English translation of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae, see [2] below.

[2]

f. 2

It is expedyent to all men that myndes themselfes to be above other bestys to endevour them wiþ all laboure and diligens that they over rynne not their lyffe no thing doyng lyke shepe the which nature hathe ordeynd to be inclynyd and obeysant to the bellye but all oure possibylite is putt in the doyng of the sowle and of the body the sowle to haue the rewle the body to be subiectt …

f. 44v

… he executed togader as well the offices of a bolde sowger as of a good gouernoure petreius where he seith catelyne make sore fyght …

‘Caius cryspus salustius in his boke of hystoryes of the coniuracion of lucius sergius catelina’ (f. 2). Ends imperfectly. English translation of Sallust's Bellum Catilinae. Ends in chapter LX (equivalent to Rolfe, p. 127 line 1). Daniel Wakelin advises (personal communication) that this is probably the earliest translation of Catilinae, and perhaps the earliest translation of Sallust if this text precedes Pynson's print of Barclay's Jugurtha, c. 1520 (STC 21626).

s. xv/xvi.