Bod-Inc: S-165
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus
De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, sive De formula honestae vitae [with German verse translation] (comm. anon.), et al.
Analysis of Content
A1r [Title-page.]
A1v [Life of Seneca.] Incipit: ‘[S]eneca cordubensis philosophus uir doctissimus Stratini stoici . . .’ For Vitae of Seneca see VL VIII 1088.
A2r Seneca, Lucius Annaeus [pseudo-; Martinus de Braga]: ‘De formula honestae uitae siue De quattuor uirtutibus cardinalibus'. See S‑134. Three to five lines of Latin text are followed by their translation in German verse.
A2r [German verse translation of De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus.] Incipit: ‘Wir sint der angel tugent | Do myt getzyrt wirt dy iogenth'; trimeters.
A2r [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘Pro generali noticia presentis libri ista sunt tenenda . . .’
Imprint
Imprint: [Leipzig: Conrad Kachelofen, for] J. N., [1489?–1497?]. 4°.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard; BSB‑Ink dates [c.1490].
Collation
Collation: A–C8.
References
ISTC: is00415000
Hain: H 14629; C 5358;
Goff: Goff S‑415;
BMC: BMC III 631;
Proctor: Pr 2906;
Others: BSB‑Ink M‑213; Sheppard 2092.
LCN: 14050357
Copies
Copy number: S-165(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half morocco over marbled paper boards.
Size: 220 × 153 × 10 mm.
Size of leaf: 211 × 140 mm.
Occasional ‘nota' signs in thick pencil strokes.
Initials, pilcrows, capital strokes, and underlining are supplied in red ink.
Provenance: Purchased for £0. 2. 6; see Books Purchased (1858), 99.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 1.19.
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