Introduction a los Prouerbios de Seneca / por el Doctor Pero Diaz: dirigido al muy alto y muy illustre ... señor ... el rey don Joan ... Agora de nueuo con gran diligencia corregido y emendado.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

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

Díaz de Toledo, Pero, approximately 1415-1466.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Sententiae. Spanish

Language:

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Maxims, Latin--Early works to 1800.

Maxims, Latin.

Aphorisms and apothegms--Early works to 1800.

Aphorisms and apothegms.

Penn Provenance:

Stirling Maxwell, William, 1818-1878 (armorial binding) (bookplate) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Chorley, William B. (stamp) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

8 unnumbered leaves, lxxviij leaves ; 30 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Introduction a los Proverbios de Seneca

Fingerprint:

n.ha xvo- i-e- ap&p (3) 1552 (R)

Place of Publication:

En Medina del Campo : Vendense en casa de Adrian Ghemart, MDLII [1552]

Notes:

Colophon reads: "Fue impressa la presente obra en Medina del Campo, en casa de Guillermo de Millis, Año M.D. LII."

A collection of maxims derived from the plays of Publilius Syrus and enlarged from other sources, especially the Liber De moribus, attributed to Seneca.

Title printed in red and black, within woodcut architectural border.

Woodcut initials; a few initial spaces with guide letters.

Printed in two columns.

Signatures: a⁸ A-I⁸ K⁶.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy in armorial binding of Sir William Stirling Maxwell: full parchment with Maxwell's arms, incorporating his motto ("GANG FORWARD") and initials ("WS"), on left board and his monogram ("WS") on right board; all edges red; remains of two leather ties.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of Sir William Stirling Maxwell (1818-1878), with motto "Gang forward" on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has stamp of book collector William B. Chorley on title page.

Culture Class Collection copy has bookplate from the library of Sir William Stirling Maxwell at Nether Pollok on back pastedown.

Cited in:

Palau, 30752

Schaaber, S-380

OCLC:

52803342