Les euvres de Senecque, translateez de latin en francoys par maistre Laurens de Premierfait.

Accession number:

PML 78838

Author:

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

Published:

Imprime a Paris : pour Anthoine Verard, [between Oct. 1499 and July 1503]

Description:

[4], vii-Cxxi leaves (with mistakes) : illustration (woodcut) ; 27 cm (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1986.

Notes:

Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf v8v: Les oeuvres de senecque translatees de latin en francoys par maistre laurens de premierfait. Imprimees a paris pour Anthoine verard marchant et libraire demourant a paris en la rue sainct Jehan levangeliste/ ou au palais au premier pillier deva[n]t la chappelle ou len cha[n]te la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Vérard's device, leaf v8r.
Printed in Vérard's types 10:84/85G and 12:104G.
Dated between Oct. 1499 and July 1503 in CIBN S-198, not before 1500 by Goff.
Signatures: a⁴ b-t⁶ v⁸: 120 leaves. Quire a might be 6 leaves due to printed foliation, perhaps a[1].6 (blanks?).
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated by Laurens de Premierfait.
Woodcut, leaf a2r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 26.2 x 17.5 cm.

Binding:

Modern laced stiff vellum with fore-edge (Yapp) extensions (27 x 19 cm), sewn on 3 supports by L. Pouillet. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.

Variant Title:

Oeuvres de Senecque

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Pale capital strokes and ruling. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Guilelmus Pinchonius, signature, 16th century (leaf a1r); G. Duval, bookplate with motto: Nec unquam amicorum (front and rear pastedowns); Viau y Zona (of Buenos Aires), booksellers' ticket (front pastedown); Marcellus Schlimovich, bookplate (front pastedown), donated his collection to: Sociedad Hebraica Argentina, Colección Schlimovic, Incun. no. 22, stamps (front and rear endleaves); Sotheby's NY, 15 Dec. 1986, lot 163; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, Dec. 1986.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books