title: Nero
variant_description: There are two issues of this edition: Greg L5b(i) is dated 1638 and lists Flesher as printer; Greg L5b(ii) is dated 1639 and lists "M. F." as printer and Mynne as publisher. The two title pages also differ slightly in formatting. See also Greg 
title_page_title: <I>NERO</I> TRAGOEDIA NOVA.
title_page_author: M<small>ATTH</small>æ<small>O</small> G<small>WINNE</small> Med. Doct. Collegii Divi Joannis Præcursoris apud Oxonienses Socio collecta è <i>Tacito, Suetonio, Dione, Seneca</i>.
title-page_latin_motto: O<small>VID</small>. <i>Tam fœlix utinam, quam pectore candidus essem</i>.
title_page_imprint: L<small>ONDINI</small>. Excudebat <i>Milo Flesher</i>. 1638.
paratext_dedication: Epistle <i>to</i>: Thomas Egerton (1st Viscount Brackley); and Francis Leigh (<i>father of Francis Leigh, 1st Earl of Chichester</i>); <i>from</i>: Matthew Gwinne [A3r]. Verses <i>to</i>: Justus Lipsius; <i>from</i>: John Sandsbury [A11r].
paratext_charachter_list: "Actorum nomina" [A12r]
stationer_entries_in_register: Feb 23, 1603: Entered to Edward Blount: "A booke called. Nero Tragedia nova Matheo Gwyn medec' D<i>o</i>c<i>t</i>ore Colegij divi Iohn<i>n</i>is precursoris apud Oxonienses socio Collecta".<br />Sep 4, 1626: Transferred from John Budge to Robert Allott: "The Tragedye of Nero."<br />Jul 1, 1637: Transferred from widow of Robert Allott to John Legat (2) and Andrew Crooke (1): "saluo Iure cuiuscunq<i>ue</i> ... Tragedy N&aelig;ro latyn."
transcript_modern_spelling: Nero tragoedia nova matthaeo gwinne med doct collegii divi ioannis praecursoris apud oxonienses socio collecta e tacito suetonio dione Seneca ovid. tam foelix utinam quam pectore candidus essem Londini excudebat milo flesher 1638