Lucii Annei Senece Cordubensis ad Lucilium epistole Feliciter Incipiunt
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: Lucii Annei Senece Cordubensis ad Lucilium epistole Feliciter Incipiunt
Other titles: Epistulae ad Lucilium; Epistulae morales ad Lucilium; Ad Lucillium epistole feliciter incipiunt
Classmark: BC Incunabula/SEN
Creator(s): Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Additional creator(s): Rusch, Adolph (fl. 1466-1489) (Printer); Schedel, Hartmann (1440-1514) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Rusch, Adolph; Schedel, Hartmann; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: The R-Printer (Adolf Rusch)
Publication city: [Strassburg]
Date(s): [about 1475]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [212] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/97867
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008145069705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Imprint from ISTC.
Dated about 1475 in CIBN, about 1474 by Goff.
Printed with 35 lines to a full page.
No signatures, foliation or catchwords.
The first and last leaves are blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. is00379000.
Indexed in: Goff S379; HC 14597; Pell Ms 10397; CIBN S-189; Jammes S-10; Delisle 1781; IGI 8862; IDL 4080; IBP 4972; Sajó-Soltész 3064; Madsen 3670, 3671; Lőkkös(Cat BPU) 395; Nentwig 356; Voull(B) 2126; Sack(Freiburg) 3202; Mittler-Kind 557; Chap p.36; Hunt 109; Morg 77; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1604; Sheppard 221, 222; Pr 243; BMC I 62.
Features
Bound at the front of the book are three leaves comprising a table in black ink manuscript, probably late fifteenth-century.
Very occasional marginal annotations and underlinings in black ink manuscript.
Two numbers are written at the top left-hand corner of the front pastedown. In black ink manuscript: 389. In red pencil manuscript: 620.
Written in black ink manuscript at the head of the front pastedown are notes giving details of the edition.
The major initial on the first leaf of printed text is supplied in green and gold against a red and gold background with decoration of stylised foliage in red, green and purple extending along the inner margin. The bottom margin is decorated in a smiliar style with stylised foliage in green, red and purple, with a coat of arms at the centre featuring a shield in blue, black and red upon which is a gold helm with a grey coronet. Above is a moor's head with red eyes and lips, a beard and plaited hair wearing a hat, and the whole coat of arms is surrounded by stylised foliage in black and gold. The arms bear a resemblance to those associated with Hartmann Schedel (1440-1514).
At the top right of the first leaf of printed text is an illustration in black ink featuring a helm on a decorated plinth surrounded by stylised foliage.
Major initials supplied and decorated alternately in red and blue throughout.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue.
Capital strokes supplied in red.
Leaf numbers have been supplied in Roman numerals in red ink manuscript at the top left of versos, now mostly cropped.
This copy is missing the first and last blank leaves.
Some water damage.
Bindings
Binding of quarter white vellum and marbled paper over pasteboard. The marbled paper features the comb pattern in red, blue and cream, now much worn. Written directy onto the smooth vellum spine in black ink manuscript: L. A. Seneca. II 108. The leaf edges of the book are sprinkled red and blue. Size: 280 x 206mm. Leaf size: 271 x 202mm.
Provenance
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
Access and usage
Access
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