Epistolas de Seneca en romance / nueuame[n]te impressas y corregidas y emendadas.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Díaz de Toledo, Pero, approximately 1415-1466.

Pérez de Guzmán, Fernán, 1376?-1460?

Eguía, Miguel de, approximately 1495-1546, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Spanish

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Ethics--Early works to 1800.

Ethics.

Philosophers--Rome--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Philosophers.

Statesmen--Rome--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Statesmen.

Authors, Latin--Rome--Correspondence--Early works to 1800.

Authors, Latin.

Genre:

Personal correspondence.

Physical Description:

lxxiij leaves, 3 unnumbered leaves ; 27 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

ceo- s-u- e-co enLa (3) 1529 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressas ... d[e] Alcala d[e] Henares : En casa de Miguel de Eguia, a xv d[e] enero MDxxxix años [15 January 1529]

Notes:

Publisher and date of publication from colophon ( verso of leaf m5) which reads: "Fueron impressas las epistolas de Seneca, introducio[n] d[e] moral philosophia. En la vniuersidad d[e] Alcala d[e] Henares en casa de Miguel de Equia a xv d[e] Enero MDXXIX años."

Leaf xii misfoliated viii.

Signatures: a-k⁶ l-m⁸.

"Epistolas de Seneca" is a translation of Seneca's "Epistulae morales ad Lucilium" by Fernán Pérez de Guzman. Cf. Grässe. Some sources attribute translation to Diaz de Toledo.

Inlcudes Leonardo Bruni's "Isagogicon moralis philosophiae" (on leaves lxvii-lxxiii) has caption title: "Introductio[n] si quier sum[m]a de philosophia moral / hecha por el muy excellente orados Leonardo Aretino.

Title within border of historiated woodcut panels representing the seven sages of Greece. Two panels signed with wood engraver's monogram "Pedro"? Cf. García López. Ensayo de una tipografia complutense.

Woodcuts: title page border; initials.

Text printed in double columns.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy has gathering misbound with leaves h3 preceding h2 and h4 preceding h5.

Culture Class Collection copy quarter bound in leather with all edges sponge decorated.

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 308016

Martin Abad, J. Imprenta en Alcalà de Henares I, 206

Salvá y Perez, V. Biblioteca de Salvá, II, 4005

BM STC Portuguese and Spanish-Amer., pre-1601 p. 179

Revue hispanique XVI, p. 39

García López, J.C. Tipografía complutense, 109

Grässe, J. Trésor de livres rares et précieux, VI, 354

Contains:

Bruni, Leonardo, 1369-1444. Isagogicon moralis philosophiae. Spanish.

Introduction si quier summa de philosophia moral.

OCLC:

15433914