Incipit Lucii Annei Senecae Cordubensis liber De moribus in quo notabiliter & eleganter uitae mores enarrat:.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus,approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Moravo, Mattia,printer.
Romero, Biagio.
Bernard Quaritch (Firm),bookseller.StEdNL
[Naples : Matthias Moravus, for Blasio Romero],
anno Domini M. lxxiiiii. [sic] [1475]
Title from incipit.
In two parts, the first containing the philosophical works, and the second the Epistolae.
Imprint based on colophon at end of pt. 1. Colophon reads: "Sub Domino Blasio Romero monacho Populeti philosopho ac theologo celebri est impressum hoc opus in ciuitate Neapolis. Anno Domini M. lxxiiiii [sic]."
Pt. 2 incipit is : "Incipit prologus Beati Hieronymi super epistolis Pauli ad Senecam & Senecae ad Paulum."
Completely unsigned throughout.
Spaces left without guide letters for initials.
Signatures: [a-c¹⁰ d-e⁶ f-g¹⁰ h-i⁸ k-m¹⁰ n¹² o⁸ p¹⁰ q⁸ A-B¹⁰ C⁸ D¹⁰ E⁸ F¹⁰ G⁸ H¹⁰ J-L⁸ M¹⁰]
Initials supplied in red or blue or in gold ornamented with dark red scroll-work. On leaves 2, 31, 39 and 79 there are large ornamental initials are borders in gold and colours, the O on leaf 2 depicting a scholar.
With manuscript marginal annotations.
De remediis fortuitorum. -- De clementia. -- De beneficiis. -- De ira. -- De mundi gubernatione. -- De beata vita. -- De consolatione. -- De tranquillitate vitae. -- Quomodo in sapientem non cadit iniuria. -- De brevitate vitae. -- Epistolae ad Lucilium. -- De moribus. -- Pseudo- Seneca [Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga (Bracara)]: De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus. -- Lucius Annaeus Seneca (the Elder): Declamationes, Suasoriae, Controversiae. -- Proverbia Senecae. -- Epistolae Pauli et Senecae.
Hain-Copinger
GfT
Fav e Bres
Pell Ms,
CIBN
Hillard
IDL
IBE
IGI
Mendes
Voull(B)
Hubay(Augsburg)
Madsen
Proctor
Goff
GW
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Rhodes
Beattie, W. Supplement to the hand-list of incunabula in the National Library of Scotland,
Bought from Quaritch with the Lauriston Castle Fund 20 July 1943.
17th-century sheepskin with spine with eight raised bands forming eight gilt tooled compartments and one with title label and marbled edges.
Philosophy, Ancient
Ethics
Latin letters
Italy Naples.