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Bod-Inc: S-136

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

Epistolae ad Lucilium [Italian] Pistole del moralissimo Seneca, et al. (trans. Sebastiano Manilio).

 

Analysis of Content

[*1r] [Title-page.]

[*1v] [Table.]

[**1r] Manilius, Sebastianus: ‘Prefatione . . . in lingua volgar tosco delle pistole del . . . Seneca’ [addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza. Incipit: ‘[V]ariamente dalli nostri antichi la uera Philosophia . . . esser stata diuisa . . .’

[**2r] [Vita Senecae.] Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; see preface. Incipit: ‘[L]ucio Anneo Seneca huomo non meno di uita costumatissimo che di scientia . . .’

a1r Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: ‘Le morale epistole . . . a Lucillo'. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; see preface. Incipit: ‘[I]n tal modo ti gouerna Lucillo mio che la tua uita a te medesimo . . .’ See S‑131.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Sebastiano Manilio, and Stephanus and Bernardinus di Nallis, 14 Apr. 1494. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [*4 **2] a–o6 p–q4 r–y6 z & [con]4 [rum] A–E4 F6.

References

ISTC: is00382000

Hain: HC 14606;

Goff: Goff S‑382;

BMC: BMC V 545;

Proctor: Pr 4887;

Others: BSB‑Ink S‑264; CIBN S‑192; Oates 2145.5; Sheppard 4579. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation: Part I, CT 100.

LCN: 14051455

Copies

Copy number: S-136(1)

Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century Italian pasteboards, the spine covered by nineteenth-century paper with imprint information printed on a rectangular blue paper label. ‘614' in red ink on a small rectangular paper label at the head of the upper cover, adjacent to the spine; for another of such labels see P‑123. Italian title along the lower edge, in brown ink.

Size: 299 × 214 × 35 mm.

Size of leaf: 292 × 205 mm.

A few notes in a sixteenth-century Italian hand, supplying ‘nota' marks and corrections to the text.

Provenance: Johannes Penna (sixteenth century); see ‘Joannis Pennae' on [*1r]. Pietro da Pistoia (sixteenth century); a washed inscription in his hand on F6v; ‘Io Piero da Pistoia, visitatore de' fratri Jesuati de sancto Hieronymo, facio fede chome Io o dato in conto | a frate Dominico [ ] [ ] possa [t?]enere a presso | di se questo presente libro da portare dove | andero astare nela [ ] . . . | e per fede del uero o fato questa scripa | de mano questo 9(?) di giugno 1526 (or 1576?)'. Purchased for £1. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1858), 99.

SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.20.

Copy number: S-136(2)

Binding: Eighteenth-century half red morocco over paper boards; azure pastedowns.

Size: 308 × 201 × 28 mm.

Size of leaf: 299 × 187 mm.

A few brackets are supplied in red ink.

Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932). Bequeathed in 1932.

SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3402.


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