Accession number
PML 20416
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Object title
Incipit liber Senece de remedijs fortuitoru[m].
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of Dares (Johannes Solidi (Schilling))], [about 1472]
Description
[8] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1919.
Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r: Incipit liber senece de remedijs fortuitoru[m].
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 13.8 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of Dares's type 1:100G.
Collation: [1⁸]: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.3 x 13.8 cm.
Binding
19th/20th-century limp parchment (20.7 x 14 cm) with slight extended fore-edges, sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (7 endleaves to fill out bookblock).
Variant title
De remediis fortuitorum
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrics, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
J.T. Hand, siganture (leaf [1]/1r); George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, notes and price code: [rho phi], purchased April 1901 (front endleaf 1 recto), his sale, Sotheby's, part III, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 3715, to Quaritch; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943) purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1919.
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