Tragedie Senece : cum commento.

Accession number: 
PML 129488
Author: 
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published: 
Venetiis : per Lazarum Isoarda de Saviliano, M.cccc.lxxxxii. die .xii. Decembris [12 December 1492].
Description: 
[140] leaves ; 32 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased on the L.C. Harper C-1 Fund, 2003.
Notes: 

Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf z6r): Venetiis: per Lazarum Isoarda de Saviliano. M.cccc.lxxxxii. die .xii. Decembris.
Printed in Soardis's types 2:104R (text), 3:81R (preface and commentary), and 4:150G (half-title).
Signatures: a⁸ b-z⁶: 140 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Commentator's preface (leaf a2r) with heading: Gellius Bernardinus Marmita Parmiensis eminentissimo ac humanissimo D.D. Guielmo de Rupeforti magno cancellario Franciae S.D.
"The line 'Cum priuilegio ... ' on leaf z6r has been added with a stamp after printing off; it does not appear in all copies. Reprinted from the edition of Lambillon and Saracenus, Lyons, 1491 (IB.420033)"--BM 15th cent.
Register follows colophon.
60 lines of commentary surrounding the text. Capital spaces with guide letters. Catchwords. Printer's device.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.7 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy without "cum privilegio" stamp and with quires x and y transposed.

Binding: 
Modern stiff vellum (31 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Modern plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands.
Variant Title: 

Tragediae Senecae

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not realized. Annotations: 1 contemporary interlinear correction (leaf y4r) with a few other minor marginal notations, mainly NB marks.

Provenance: 
H.P. Kraus, inventory and reference sale, Sotheby's 4 Dec. 2003, lot 558; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased 4 Dec. 2003, post sale.
Classification: 
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