Accession number
PML 16328
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Object title
Senece omnia opera.
Published
Venetiis : Per Bernardinu[m] de Coris de Cremona, M.cccc.xcii. die ultima octobris [31 October 1492].
Description
[2], ccviii leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [1]/1v).
Printed in Choris's types 6:120G and 13:80R.
Signatures: [1]² a-g⁸ h⁴ i-z & [con]⁸ [rum] aa⁶: 210 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Errors in foliation: leaves xvi, lxxix, cl, and cc misnumbered vxi, lxxxi, clo, and cco, respectively.
Includes: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the elder. Suasoriae et Controversiae.
The Declamations (fol. 67a-83a) are in reality prefaces and excerpts of the Controversiae of L. Annaeus Seneca the elder; these prefaces and excerpts do not appear in the Controversiae on fol. 180a-210b.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 21.2 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [1]/1v).
Printed in Choris's types 6:120G and 13:80R.
Signatures: [1]² a-g⁸ h⁴ i-z & [con]⁸ [rum] aa⁶: 210 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Errors in foliation: leaves xvi, lxxix, cl, and cc misnumbered vxi, lxxxi, clo, and cco, respectively.
Includes: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the elder. Suasoriae et Controversiae.
The Declamations (fol. 67a-83a) are in reality prefaces and excerpts of the Controversiae of L. Annaeus Seneca the elder; these prefaces and excerpts do not appear in the Controversiae on fol. 180a-210b.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 21.2 cm.
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in several hands, including Amidanus. Manuscript title on bottom edge, partly missing, suggesting used to be bound with another work.
Provenance
Johannes Petrus Amidanus, signatures, 16th century (leaves [1]/2r and a1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1909.
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