Los v. libros de Seneca.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

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

Contributor:

Cartagena, Alonso de, 1385?-1456.

Successor of Petrus Hagenbach, active 1503-1511, printer.

Standardized Title:

Selections. Spanish

Language:

Latin

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Conduct of life--Early works to 1800.

Conduct of life.

Physical Description:

LXXXIX leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf (the last leaf blank) ; 29 cm (folio)

Fingerprint:

esan a.s: raas noEh (3) 1510 (T)

Place of Publication:

Imprimidas enla emperial ciudad de Toledo : [Successor of Petrus Hagenbach], Enel año del nascimiento del sẽnor de Mill & quinientos & diez años a quinze dias del mes de Mayo [15 May 1510]

Contents:

(from t.p.) Primero libro de la vida bineaventurada

Segundo de las siete artes liberales

Tercero de amonestamientos & doctrinas

Quarto & el primero de provide[n]cia de dios

Quinto el segu[n]do libro de provide[n]cia de dios.

Notes:

Cataloged from imperfect copy: all before leaf c1 (including title leaf) wanting. Leaves a1-b7 of an incunable edition of the same text (Seville: Meinardus Ungut and Stanislaus Polonus, 28 May 1491; ISTC is00374000), with twenty words missing at the transition supplied in early ms. at the foot of leaf b7v, have been bound in before leaf c1 to supply the missing text.

Translated with commentary by Alonso de Cartagena.

Title transcription supplied from Palau y Dulcet; fingerprint taken from digital copy in the Biblioteca Digital Hispánica.

Place and date of printing from colophon on leaf p5v, which reads: A loor y gloria de dios todo poderoso se acaban las obras de Seneca. Imprimidas enla emperial ciudad de toledo. Enel año del nascimiento del señor. de Mill & quinientos & diez Años. A quinze dias del mes de Mayo.

Printer's name supplied from Norton.

Signatures: a-p⁶ (leaf p6 blank). Cf. Norton.

Errors in foliation: leaves XV, XXI, XXV, LVII, LXII, LXXXI, LXXXII and LXXXVIII numbered XVII, XX, XXIIII, LVI, LII, LXXXII, LXXXIII and LXXXV, respectively.

Xylographic title with woodcut vignette (a scholar writing at his desk); woodcut initials.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. bibliographical notes in pencil on front pastedown; some early ms. underlines and marginal marks in brown ink in text.

Penn Libraries copy has paper slip with bookseller's typescript description of this copy (with a few ms. notes in ink and pencil) laid in.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full 16th-century parchment; evidence of two leather fore-edge ties; ms. spine title ("Obras de Seneca") in brown ink.

Cited in:

Palau y Dulcet (2. ed.) 307668

Norton, F.J. Spain and Portugal, 1057

Martín Abad, J. Post-incunables Ibéricos, 1417

OCLC:

45480258