Epistolae ad Lucilium.

Accession number: 
PML 43
Author: 
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published: 
[Strasbourg] : [The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)], [about 1474 or 1475]
Description: 
[212] leaves ; 29 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Printed in Rusch's type 1:103R.
Dated about 1475 in CIBN, about 1474 by Goff. PML copy with manuscript table of contents on paper with watermark dated to 1474 by Piccard.
Collation: [1⁸ 2¹⁰ 3¹⁰(+8*); 4-5¹⁰ 6⁶ 7⁸ 8-9¹⁰ 10¹²; 11-12¹⁰ 13-14⁶; 15-16¹⁰ 17-18⁶ 19-21¹⁰ 22⁶(+2*) 23⁶ 24¹⁰]: 212 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [24]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).

Binding: 
18th-century red morocco with gilt-stamped frame over stiff paper boards (29 x 21 cm), bound in England; rebacked with gilt-stamped panels. Marbled paper pastedowns and end leaves. All edge gilt. Hinges and corners wearing.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, lombards, paragraph marks, capital strokes and underlining in red; initial on leaf [1]/2r partially faded. Annotations: Contemporary manuscript quire signatures, mostly trimmed. Four leaves added at end ([25]/4) with contemporary table of contents in light brown (faded?) ink (leaves [24]/9v-[25]/1r) with faded note in same hand on leaf [25]/3r; Agnus dei watermark dated to 1474 (Piccard, Wasserzeichen, XV/3: 1725). Contemporary annotations in inner margins of brackets, manicules, and clustered dots.

Provenance: 
Thomas Lyon Fellowes (1818-1881), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); [Fellowes sale, Puttick & Simpson, 1 Aug. 1882; Sotheby's/P&S sale description, lot 633 (front fly leaf)]; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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