Senece omnia opera.

Accession number:

PML 16328

Author:

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

Published:

Venetiis : Per Bernardinu[m] de Coris de Cremona, M.cccc.xcii. die ultima octobris [31 October 1492].

Description:

[2], ccviii leaves ; 32 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.

Notes:

Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [1]/1v).
Printed in Choris's types 6:120G and 13:80R.
Signatures: [1]² a-g⁸ h⁴ i-z & [con]⁸ [rum] aa⁶: 210 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Errors in foliation: leaves xvi, lxxix, cl, and cc misnumbered vxi, lxxxi, clo, and cco, respectively.
Includes: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the elder. Suasoriae et Controversiae.
The Declamations (fol. 67a-83a) are in reality prefaces and excerpts of the Controversiae of L. Annaeus Seneca the elder; these prefaces and excerpts do not appear in the Controversiae on fol. 180a-210b.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.9 x 21.2 cm.

Binding:

Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (32 x 22 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations in several hands, including Amidanus. Manuscript title on bottom edge, partly missing, suggesting used to be bound with another work.

Provenance:

Johannes Petrus Amidanus, signatures, 16th century (leaves [1]/2r and a1r); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, June 1909.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Quarter bindings (Binding)

Goatskin bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books