Senece omnia opera
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 62, item 2
Publisher: Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona
Published: 1492
Place of publication: Venice
Language: lat
Work titles: Works
Notes: Signatures: pi² a-g⁸ h⁴ i-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁶ 2a⁶.

Errors in foliation: leaves xvi, lxxix, cl, and cc misnumbered vxi, lxxxi, clo, and cco, respectively.

Includes: Lucius Annaeus Seneca, the elder. Suasoriae et Controversiae.

The Declamations (fol.67a-83a) are in reality prefaces and excerpts of the Controversiae of L. Annaeus Seneca the elder; these prefaces and excerpts do not appear in the Controversiae on fol.180a-210b.

Hain-Copinger, 14594*.

Proctor, 5221.

Goff, S-371.

BM 15th cent., V, 466 (IB.23442).

ISTC is00371000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2376-2377.

Schullian, 442.

Early ownership inscription: Ex Libris mei advocati marini de Craszan; contemporary or near contemporary ms. notes in several hands, some with line endings cropped; fists (see especially leaf i.)

From the Boston Medical Library Collection. MS ownership notations on flyleaves at front: "Di Pietro Vallonica" and "De François Vallonica L'an dixhuit cent cinquant et deux".

Initial space, with guide letters, not filled in; without rubrication.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication. Imperfect: t.p. mutilated, affecting text.

Bound in 17th-cent. sheep, very worn; spine gilt; blind rules on covers; endpapers decorated and colored by hand (later); edges sprinkled red.
Table of contents: title: Title page, [pi1]r; [Table of contents], [pi1]v; colophon, [pi1]v; printer's register, [pi1]v; Sophronius Eusebius Hieronymus. [Excerpt from De viris illustribus, ch. 12], caption "Prologus super epistolis Pauli ad Senecam et Senecae ad Paulum", [p2]r; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca and [Pseudo- Sanctus] Paulus. Epistolae Senecae ad Paulum et Pauli ad Senecam, [p2]r-v; "Epitaphium Senecæ in morte", [pi2]v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Epistolae ad Lucilium, a1r-h4v; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De paupertate, i1r; "Vita Lucii Annei Senecae Cordubensis", i1v-i2r; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e. Martinus de Braga]. De moribus, i2v-i3r; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e. Martinus de Braga]. Formula vitae honestae vel De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, i3r-i4r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De remediis fortuitorum, i4r-i5r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Senior). Declamationes [also known as Controversiae], i5r-l5r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De clementia, l5r-m1r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De beneficiis, m1r-o8v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De ira, o8v-q3v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De mundi gubernatione, q3v-q5v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De beata vita, q5v-r2r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De consolatione, f2r-s1v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De tranquillitate vitae, s1v-s5v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De constantia sapientis vel Quomodo in sapientem non cadit iniuria, s5v-s8r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. De brevitate vitae, s8r-t6r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. [Epistolae ad Lucilium, LXXXVIII], entitled "De studiis liberalibus", t6r-t7r; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e. Publilius Syrus]. Proverbia, t7v-u1v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca. Quaestiones naturales, u2r-u8v; Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Senior). Suasoriae, z1r-z6r; Lucius Annaeus Seneca (Senior). Controversiae, z6r-aa6v.