Accession number
PML 77270
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Object title
Annei Lucij Senece de quatuor virtutibus liber incipit.
Published
[Cologne] : [Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' (Johann Guldenschaff or Conrad Winters, de Homborch?)], [about 1472]
Description
[21] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased on the Harper Fund, 1981.
Notes
Title from incipit caption, leaf [1]/1r.
De quattuor virtutibus in fact by Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara).
The four fictitious orations ascribed to Demosthenes, Aeschines, Demades, and Philippus, are probably by Petrus Marcellus, bishop of Ceneda; see Remigio Sabbadini in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, N.S. 30 (1915), 241 ff. (GW 8251)
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' type 1:ca.102G.
Polain dates about 1474, CIBN as about 1470-73.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁶(6+1)]: 21 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14 cm.
PML copy with bifolia [1]/4.5 and [1]/3.6 exchanged.
De quattuor virtutibus in fact by Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara).
The four fictitious orations ascribed to Demosthenes, Aeschines, Demades, and Philippus, are probably by Petrus Marcellus, bishop of Ceneda; see Remigio Sabbadini in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, N.S. 30 (1915), 241 ff. (GW 8251)
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in the Printer of the 'Historia S. Albani' type 1:ca.102G.
Polain dates about 1474, CIBN as about 1470-73.
Collation: [1⁸ 2⁶ 3⁶(6+1)]: 21 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto in half-sheets.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.5 x 14 cm.
PML copy with bifolia [1]/4.5 and [1]/3.6 exchanged.
Binding
19th-century French full brown goatskin over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Lortic. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, sive De formula honestae vitae. Add: De moribus. Demosthenes (Pseudo-) Orationes duae de Alexandro Magno habitae in senatu Atheniensi; (Pseudo-) Aeschines: Exhortatio ad Athenienses; (Pseudo-) Demades: Dehortatio adver
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary French rubrication, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Early manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures: y, z, and [et]. Unidentified modern notations: "B1" and "Huys" (leaf [1]/1r at lower gutter).
Provenance
Georges Heilbrun, cat. 33, no. 99; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from L.C. Harper, Inc. on the Harper Fund, Dec. 1981.
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