Accession number
PML 79069
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Object title
Pistole del moralissimo Seneca nuovamente fatte volgare.
Published
Venetia p[er] i[d]dustria di Sebastia[n] Manilio ... Stefano e Barnardi[n]o Dinali, M.cccclxxxxiiii. a di .xiiii. di aprile [14 April 1494].
Description
[6], 170 leaves ; 33 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf [1]/1r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf F6v).
Printed in Manilio's type 11:110R.
Signatures: [1]⁴; [2]²; a-o⁶ p-q⁴ r-y⁶ z & [con] [rum] A-E⁴ F⁶: 176 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated and printed by Sebastiano Manilio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 20.1 cm.
Imprint from colophon (leaf F6v).
Printed in Manilio's type 11:110R.
Signatures: [1]⁴; [2]²; a-o⁶ p-q⁴ r-y⁶ z & [con] [rum] A-E⁴ F⁶: 176 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Translated and printed by Sebastiano Manilio.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30.2 x 20.1 cm.
Binding
18th/19th-century quarter sheepskin with paper sides over paper boards (31 x 21 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; blue edges.
Variant title
Pistole del moralissimo
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text. Modern bibliographic inscriptions (front fly leaf).
Provenance
Unidentified inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); C.E. Rappaport, Rome, ticket (front pastedown); Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 7, purchased from Rappaport, March 1929; Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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