Ms. Codex 916 Liber epistularum Senecae ad Lucillium
Title
Liber epistularum Senecae ad LucilliumAuthors
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
Other related names
- Lucilius Iunior, active 4-64, recipient
Call number
Ms. Codex 916(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)
Alternate identifiers
- bibid: 9940457513503681
- http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/155865109
- http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4045751
Publisher
University of PennsylvaniaLanguage
LatinOrigin
Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century? (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Date
- between 1375 and 1399?
- Place
-
Italy
Summary
Incomplete text of Seneca's letters to Lucilius Iunior, also referred to as the Epistulae morales, advising Lucilius on his conduct and emphasizing Stoic philosophy. The text breaks off in Letter 26 and most of the longer letters are abridged.
Notes
- Ms. gathering.
- Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Extent
12 leaves : 210 x 158 (170 x 112) mm. bound to 218 x 149 mmCollation
Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); 1¹²; [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchword for a succeeding gathering (f. 12v).Support
PaperBinding
Modern boards.Layout
Decoration
Red ink for caption title, letter divisions, 1- or 2-line initials at beginning of letters, and slashes marking first letter of sentences; manicules drawn in margin.
Script
Provenance
- Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1962.
Subjects topical
- Conduct of life--Early works to 1800
- Ethics--Early works to 1800
- Stoics--Early works to 1800
Genres
- Codices
- Manuscripts, Medieval
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
Keywords
- 14th century
- Paper
- Italy
- Italian
- Philosophy
Licenses
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- Text
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- URL
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Decorations
- fol. 1v — Manicule, f. 1v
- fol. 2r — Manicule, f. 2r
- fol. 2v — Manicule, f. 2v
- fol. 4r — Manicule, f. 4r
- fol. 4v — Manicule, f. 4v
- fol. 5r — Manicule, f. 5r
- fol. 5v — Manicule, f. 5v
- fol. 6r — Manicule, f. 6r
- fol. 6v — Manicule, f. 6v
- fol. 7v — Manicule, f. 7v
- fol. 8v — Manicule, f. 8v
- fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
- fol. 12r — Manicule, f. 12r
- fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
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