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L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis Tragoediae. Lectiones variae e MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae. Iusti Lipsi Animadversiones.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Ms. Codex 1607
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Standardized Title:
- Tragedies. Latin
- Language:
- Latin
- Subjects (All):
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D--Criticism and interpretation.
- Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62.
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Mythology, Classical--Drama--Early works to 1800.
- Latin drama (Tragedy)--Early works to 1800.
- Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62--Drama.
- Latin drama (Tragedy).
- Mythology, Classical.
- Criticism and interpretation.
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Armorial bindings (Binding)
- Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Heidelberg -- 16th century.
- Penn Provenance:
- Brockmäyer, Christian (autograph)
- Salomon, Nicolaus (autograph)
- Insignia civitatis Torgensi (armorial binding) (stamp)
- Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887 (former owner)
- Leutsch Library (bookplate)
- Physical Description:
- 3 parts (8 unnumbered pages, 384; 56; 112 pages) ; 17 cm (8vo)
- Other Title:
- L. Annaei Senecae Cordvbensis Tragoediae
- Fingerprint:
- reca r,t, e,i, EsAn (3) 1589 (R) pt.1
- 7:r- s.*. i.es cite (3) 1589 (Q) pt. 2
- a.e- s.E. t,hi inve (3) 1588 (R) pt. 3
- Place of Publication:
- Heidelbergae : [Hieronymus Commelinus], MDLXXXIX [1589]
- Notes:
- Printer from VD 16.
- Verso of leaf *2 signed: "Hier. Commelinus."
- Commelinus's woodcut printer's device on title page with motto "Aletheia panda mator" depicts Aletheia, the Greek goddess of truth, holding a sun, a quill pen, and a book with her foot resting on a globe .
- "Lectiones variae ad Senecam, e. MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae" (on 56 p.) has separate signatures and pagination with half-title: Lectiones variae ad Senecam, e. m. s. l. Bibliothecae Palatinae alisq[ue] descriptae.
- "Iusti LipsI Animadversiones in tragoedias quae L. Annaeo Senecae tribuuntur" (112 p.), was previously issued separately. It has separate title page (dated 1588), signatures and pagination.
- Includes the work "Octavia" which has been included with other tragedies by Seneca but was probably written by an imitator at a later date.
- Signatures: *⁴ A-2A⁸; a-c⁸ d⁴; A-G⁸.
- Local Notes:
- Culture Class Collection copy has "Iusti LipsI Animadversiones in tragoedias quae L. Annaeo Senecae tribuuntur" bound before "Lectiones variae ad Senecam".
- Culture Class Collection copy bound in paneled pigskin with blind stamped unidentified coat of arms on the left cover bearing initials "Z G"; right cover has the arms of the city of Torgau (Germany) underneath which is stamped: Insignia civitatis Torgensi.
- Culture Class Collection copy inscribed on title page: "[...] Christiani Brockmeyeri a[nn]o. 1660 [...] Nicolaus Salomon Troltz? Schleusingen? ... 1702 d. 28 Febr. [...]
- Culture Class Collection copy bound together with 73 manuscript leaves, cataloged separately as a manuscript (call no. Ms. Codex 1607) with supplied title "Hybrid compendium of Seneca's tragedies and scholarly apparatus".
- Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate "Leutsch Library" from the library of Ernest von Leutsch, whose library was sold to the University of Pennsylvania in 1890.
- Cited in:
- Adams S913
- VD 16 S5819
- Contains:
- Lipsius, Justus, 1547-1606. Animadversiones in tragoedias quae L. Annaeo Senecae tribuuntur.
- Octavia (Praetexta)
- Lectiones variae e MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae.
- OCLC:
- 56488597
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