Las epistolas de Seneca. Co[n] vna sum[m]a siquier introductio[n] de philosophia moral: en romançe.

Accession number: 
PML 79160
Author: 
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published: 
Caragoça de Aragon : [Paul Hurus] a insta[n]cia y expensas de Juan Thomas Fauario de Lumelo, a .iii. dias del mes de março ... .M.cccc.xcvj [3 March 1496].
Description: 
[1], II-LXXXIII, [1] leaves : illustration (1 woodcut) ; 26.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf m9r: [Printer's mark] Acaba[n]se las epistolas de Seneca co[n] vna Su[m]ma siq[ui]er introduction de philosophia moral. Empremidas en la muy insigne ciudad de Caragoça de Aragon: a insta[n]cia y expensas de Juan thomas fauario de Lumelo/ del co[n]tado de Pauia. a .iii. dias del mes de março. El año de n[ost]ro señor ihesu [christ]o .M.cccc.xcvj.
Printed in Hurus's types 2*:134G and 3:100G.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁸ d-e⁶ f-g⁸ h-l⁶ m¹⁰: 84 leaves, leaf m10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Pedro Diaz de Toledo.
1 woodcut of Nero and Seneca, leaf a1v.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 25.7 x 18.2 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: m10 (blank). Leaf a1 repaired/strengthened by Jens Yow (of Morgan Library).

Binding: 
Modern Spanish gilt-tooled full brown calf over paper boards (26.5 x 19 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Brugalla, 1942. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified Spanish typed description, 8,000 pesetas (front pastedown); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 98, purchased from William Salloch, cat. 252, no. 229, March 1968; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Gold tooled bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books