[Opera philosophica ; Epistolae, etc.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

Contributor:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D.

Martin, of Braga, Saint, approximately 515-579 or 580

Publilius, Syrus, active 1st century B.C.

Romero, Biagio.

Moravo, Mattia, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1475

Language:

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Physical Description:

253 unnumbered leaves (the first leaf blank) ; 37 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

isit nela mamp Noli (C) 1475 (R)

Place of Publication:

Est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis : [Mattia Moravo], Anno domini Mlxxiiiii [sic; i.e. 1475]

Notes:

Contains Seneca the Younger's De clementia, De beneficiis, De ira ad novatum and Epistolae ad Lucilium, Seneca the Elder's Declamationes, and several pseudo-Senecan works: De moribus and De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus (both by Martin of Braga), Proverbia Senecae (by Publilius Syrus) and Epistolae Pauli ad Senecam et Senecae ad Paulum.

Edited by Biagio Romero. Cf. colophon.

Title from Goff.

Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf chi1r, which reads: Sub domino Blasio Romero monacho Populeti philosopho ac theologo celebri est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis Anno domini: M.lxxiiiii. Diuo Ferdinando regnante.

Printer's name from poem by Gabriel Carchanus on leaf chi1r: ... sed docti Mathiae scripta moraui / Artificis: non est passa perire manus / Huic igitur meritas grates studiosa iuuentus / Pro tam sublimi munere semper agas.

Royal folio. Leaf [a]2v: 46 lines; area of text: 263 x 161 mm. Initial spaces; spaces for words in Greek characters. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords. Registers on leaves chi1v (part 1) and [B]10r (part 2). "The register wrongly assigns only four sheets to quire [u]."--BM 15th cent.

Signatures: [a]-[c]¹⁰ [d]-[e]⁶ [f]-[g]¹⁰ [h]-[i]⁸ [k]-[m]¹⁰ [n]¹² [o]⁸ [p]¹⁰ [q]⁶([q]6+chi1) [r]¹⁰ [s]-[z]¹⁰/⁸ [et]¹⁰ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ [A]⁸ [B]¹⁰ (leaf [a]1 blank).

"An ornament of [4] full stops ... is found at each end of the line containing the explicit to the second part in IC.29394, a single stop in the other copies. Similar ornaments are found at the beginning and end of the registrum to the second part in IC.29395."--BM 15th cent.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 351 x 252 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: the line containing the explicit to the second part ends with a single period.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: most initials supplied in red, blue or red and blue ink (a few later decorated also in brown ink); a few initials supplied by a reader in brown ink and one in pencil (leaf [i]7v); paragraph marks in red or blue ink; capital strokes in yellow ink.

Penn Libraries copy: many guide letters supplied in ms. in brown ink; early ms. marginal notes, corrections to text, underlines, headlines and marks in brown ink (in more than one hand?) throughout text; ms. foliation of leaves in brown ink and pencil; ms. inscription (struck through) at foot of leaf [u]1r.

Purchased for the Penn Libraries in 1952.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full parchment with fore-edge flaps (each ca. 7 mm. in width); gold-tooled brown leather spine label ("SENECA"); all edges yellow.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf [a]1 (blank) wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: boards damaged; leaves [a]2-[a]3 cropped at all margins and mounted in blank paper frames (excised red penwork extensions of initial on leaf [a]2r supplied in red ink); leaves [a]4 and [a]7 cropped at outer margins and mounted in blank paper frames; occasional wormholes in leaves; leaves cropped at all margins with damage to ms. marginalia.

Cited in:

Goff S-368

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 861 (IC.29394, IC.29395)

GW M41235

BN cat. des incun. S-183

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3271

ISTC is00368000

OCLC:

17501370