Accession number
PML 125251.1
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published
Lugduni, pro Antonio Constantino, excudebat Sulpitius Sapidus [1543]
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
The eight treatises were published together in 1543. Cf. publisher's binding instructions on verso of t.p. of "De liberalibus studiis".
Description
63 p. 17 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
Xenophon quote ("[?]ailler travailler endurer...") inscribed inside upper cover, with additional inscriptions. "Sages prudens paisibles pudicques..." inscription on first flyleaf, followed by ownership inscription. "Homme qui mange pain chauld..." proverb inscribed on first flyleaf. Contemporary annotations on first flyleaf and title page. Contemporary annotations and underscoring throughout. Recipe for "Eaue singulliere" inside lower cover, additional inscriptions unidentified.
Provenance
"Lazarus Goujon 1579 a Bourge" inscription inside upper cover, name repeated on first flyleaf. "[?] de Serray" inscription inside lower cover. "Joannes Ramey" inscription on title page. From the library of the Ramey family (16th-cent. France).
Binding
Contemporary blind-tooled calf over paperboards; manuscript waste; sewing structure visible.
Classification
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