Seneca de quatuor virtutibus cardinalibus
Publisher: Johann Froschauer
Published: 1501
Place of publication: Augsburg
Language: lat
Number of pages: 31
Work titles: Formula vitae honestae
Notes: Goff S-417 (Ulm, Johann Schäffler, 1498).

Signatures: a⁶, b⁴, c⁶.

Woodcut "Accipies" illus. on t.-p.; Albert Schramm, Der Bilderschmuck der Frühdrucke, v. 7, plates 107-116, reproduces 6 different cuts of this illus. used by Johann Schäffler in Ulm prior to 1501, but the one found here does not correspond to any of them; it does, however, correspond to that reproduced by W.L. Schreiber & Paul Heitz, Die deutschen "Accipies" und Magister cum discipulis--Holzschnitte (Strassburg, 1908), plate 23, described as in use by Johann Froschauer in Augsburg in 1501; the types are Froschauer's 74 & 92 as reproduced in the BM Facsimiles I, plate xxxvii.

Set out in paragraphs, with commentary in smaller type between.

While this work may be based on a lost treatise by Seneca, the ascription to him is false; cf. Martini episcopi bracarensis Opera omnia, ed. C.W. Barlow (New Haven, 1950) p. 204ff.

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