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Proverbia Senece.
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Proverbs, Latin--Early works to 1800.
- Proverbs, Latin.
- Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800.
- Aphorisms and apothegms.
- Genre:
- Incunabula.
- Bearer impressions (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 15th century.
- Physical Description:
- 10 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
- Other Title:
- Proverbia Senecae
- Goff title: Proverbia
- Fingerprint:
- niet etre S*ce stes (C) 1489 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [Leipzig] : [Konrad Kachelofen for Johann Schmiedhöfer], [1489?]
- Notes:
- Title from title leaf (leaf A1r).
- Imprint from ISTC.
- Text concludes: Expliciunt prouerbia Senece I S. "[T]he signature I.S. [is] probably that of 'hanss smidehofer', a bookseller, who ... had litigation with Kachelofen in 1498 'der missalien halben', and who presumably shared the risk in these and other books containing the same initials."--BM 15th cent.
- Chancery quarto. Leaf A5v: 32 lines; area of text: 140 x 89 mm. Initial spaces. Printed paragraph marks. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords. Two lines of uninked bearer impressions at foot of leaf B4.
- Signatures: A⁶ B⁴.
- Local Notes:
- Leaf size: 199 x 136 mm.
- Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.
- Penn Libraries copy has copious early ms. annotations on leaves A2r-A6v and some annotations on other leaves, all in brown ink; early ms. inscriptions on title leaf in brown ink with red capital strokes and manicule; early ms. inscriptions in brown ink on leaf B4v.
- Penn Libraries copy has largely effaced round red library stamp ("STADT-BIBLIOTHEK [...]") on verso of title leaf; effaced oval red stamp on leaf A6r.
- Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern parchment.
- Penn Libraries copy: tail outer corner of each leaf mended with a blank leaf; leaves B3 and B4 mended at fore-edge.
- Cited in:
- Goff S-398
- BM 15th cent. III, p. 624 (IA.11700)
- GW M41343
- BSB-Ink. S-280
- ISTC is00398000
- OCLC:
- 249370717
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