L. Annei Senecae Tragoediae
Subtitle: cu[m] duobus co[m]mentis.
Contributors: Marmitta, Gellio Bernardino, b. ca. 1440.; Caietanus, Daniel, d. 1528.; John Davis Batchelder Collection (Library of Congress).; John Boyd Thacher Collection (Library of Congress)
Publisher: Per Matheu[m] Capcasam, Parmensem
Published: 1493
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat; grc
Number of pages: 146
Subjects: Mythology, Classical -- Drama
Genres: Drama.
Other titles: Tragoediae.
Notes: Goff S-437
Hain-Copinger 14668
BM 15th cent., V, p. 484 (IB.22748)
Title from leaf Ia (immediately preceding the Senecan text, which begins there).
The commentaries are by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus. Marmitta's was previously printed in a 1491 incunabulum; cf. BM 15th cent.
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴.
LC copy: contemporary beech boards, with 4 clasps (clasp on lower edge lost) fastening on lower cover; rebacked in tooled brown leather (re-used from another book?: title on spine: Senece Tragedie cum Persio, Brixiae, MDCCCC, Venetis (partially obliterated; date, following, completely obliterated). Title burned into upper board: Tragedie Senece. Provenance: Sir James Mountague, Her Majesty's solicitor general; purchased by John Davis Batchelder from Maggs Bros., London, Dec. 22, 1936; given by him to LC.