Accession number
PML 20113
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Object title
Opera philosophica. Epistolae.
Published
Est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis : docti Mathiae ... Moraui, Anno domini: M.lxxiiiii [1[4]75].
Description
[253] leaves ; 40 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon of part I, leaf [16]/6r: Sub domino Blasio Romero monacho poluleti philosopho ac theologo celebri est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis anno domini: M.lxxiiiii. Diuo Ferdinando regnante. Gabrielis Carchani mediolanensis in artificem carmen: Iam poene abstulerat Senecae monume[n]ta uetustas / Vixq[ue] erat haec ullus cui bene nota forent / Tam bona: sed docti Mathiae scripta Moraui / Artificis: non est passa perire manus / Huic igitur meritas grates studiosa iuuentus / Pro tam sublimi munere semper agas.
Printed in Moravus's type 2:116R.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit Lucii Annei Senecae Cordubensis liber de moribus in quo nobiliter & eleganter uitae mores enarrat.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4-5⁶; 6-7¹⁰ 8-9⁸; 10-12¹⁰ 13¹²; 14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁶ (4+1: "cum ad senectutem"); 17-18¹⁰; 19-24⁸/¹⁰ 25-27⁸ 28¹⁰]: 253 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Blasius Romerus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.8 x 26.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Imprint from colophon of part I, leaf [16]/6r: Sub domino Blasio Romero monacho poluleti philosopho ac theologo celebri est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis anno domini: M.lxxiiiii. Diuo Ferdinando regnante. Gabrielis Carchani mediolanensis in artificem carmen: Iam poene abstulerat Senecae monume[n]ta uetustas / Vixq[ue] erat haec ullus cui bene nota forent / Tam bona: sed docti Mathiae scripta Moraui / Artificis: non est passa perire manus / Huic igitur meritas grates studiosa iuuentus / Pro tam sublimi munere semper agas.
Printed in Moravus's type 2:116R.
Incipit, leaf [1]/2r: Incipit Lucii Annei Senecae Cordubensis liber de moribus in quo nobiliter & eleganter uitae mores enarrat.
Collation: [1-3¹⁰ 4-5⁶; 6-7¹⁰ 8-9⁸; 10-12¹⁰ 13¹²; 14⁸ 15¹⁰ 16⁶ (4+1: "cum ad senectutem"); 17-18¹⁰; 19-24⁸/¹⁰ 25-27⁸ 28¹⁰]: 253 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal folio.
Edited by Blasius Romerus.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 38.8 x 26.8 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
19th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled full brown goatskin over heavy paper boards (40 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Francis Bedford. Plain vellum pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Opera
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Early marginal notations sporadically throughout, including expurgated notes, some textual corrections, keywords, and numbering of text sections.
Provenance
William Horatio Crawford (1815?-1888), of Lakelands, Cork, bookplate (front pastedown), Lakelands Library sale, Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 2858 for £13.10.0 to: Bernard Quaritch, Rough list 115 (June 1891), no. 629 for £21.0.0; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1917.
Classification
Catalog link
Century
Department