Lvcii Anaei Senecae Cordvbensis: Hercvles fvrens tragedia prima incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 22557
Author: 
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published: 
[Ferrara] : cum premis Andrea gallice mortis opus, [between 30 September and 17 December 1478]
Description: 
[174] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1925.
Notes: 

Title from incipit at head of a1r.
Andreas Belfortis, Gallus, named as printer in verse colophon on u6v; place and date of printing supplied from ISTC. "The partnership formed with the bookseller Pellegrino Sillano on 30 September 1478 for printing the book in 500 copies was dissolved on 17 December: E. Peverada in Analecta Pomposiana, 19 (1994), p.183. The historical event alluded to in the colophon is therefore not the Peace of Bagnolo concluded in September 1484 (as BMC, etc.)"--ISTC.
Printed in Belfortis's type 2:116R.
Signatures: a-b¹° d⁸ dd¹° e⁸ f-h¹° i-k⁸ l¹° m-n⁸ o¹° p⁶ q¹° r-t⁸ u⁶: 172 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
"The signatures to sheet n2 inclusive are placed far down in the right-hand lower corner of the page; from sheet n3 onwards they are printed a little below the text in the ordinary way."--BM 15th cent.
Initial spaces, with guide letters.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.1 x 18.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
18th/19th-century Italian (or Austrian?) gilt-tooled red morocco, with Austrian imperial crest on spine, over paper boards (28 x 19 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Printed paper pastedowns and fly leaves (with contemporary printed German text visible as underlayer), with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Lucii Anaei Senecae Cordubensis: Hercules furens tragedia prima incipit

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Vienna, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek, shelf mark (on white label on front pastedown): 3. F. 7., with a group of duplicates sold to L.C. Harper; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Harper, Feb. 1925.
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