tis00382000

Text-inc Id:

tis00382000

Bod-inc Id:

S-136

Headings:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Epistolae ad Lucilium [Italian] Pistole del moralissimo Seneca, et al. (trans. Sebastiano Manilio).

Analysis of content:

1. [*1r] [Title-page.]
2. [*1v] [Table.]
3. [**1r] Manilius, Sebastianus: ‘Prefatione . . . in lingua volgar tosco delle pistole del . . . Seneca’ [addressed to] Ludovicus Maria Sforza. Incipit: ‘[V]ariamente dalli nostri antichi la uera Philosophia . . . esser stata diuisa . . .’
4. [**2r] [Vita Senecae.] Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; see preface. Incipit: ‘[L]ucio Anneo Seneca huomo non meno di uita costumatissimo che di scientia . . .’
5. a1r Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: ‘Le morale epistole . . . a Lucillo'. Translated by Sebastianus Manilius; see preface. Incipit: ‘[I]n tal modo ti gouerna Lucillo mio che la tua uita a te medesimo . . .’ See S‑131.

Imprint:

Venice: Sebastiano Manilio, and Stephanus and Bernardinus di Nallis, 14 Apr. 1494. Folio.

Collation:

[*⁴ **²] a–o⁶ p–q⁴ r–y⁶ z & [con]⁴ [rum] A–E⁴ F⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00382000 HC 14606; Goff S‑382; BMC V 545; Pr 4887; BSB‑Ink S‑264; CIBN S‑192; Oates 2145.5; Sheppard 4579. Microfiche: Unit 2: Classics in Translation: Part I, CT 100. LCN: 14051455

Copies:

1. S-136(1) First copy Binding: Sixteenth/seventeenth-century Italian pasteboards, the spine covered by nineteenth-century paper with imprint information printed on a rectangular blue paper label. ‘614' in red ink on a small rectangular paper label at the head of the upper cover, adjacent to the spine; for another of such labels see P‑123. Italian title along the lower edge, in brown ink. Size: 299 × 214 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 292 × 205 mm. A few notes in a sixteenth-century Italian hand, supplying ‘nota' marks and corrections to the text. Provenance: Johannes Penna (sixteenth century); see ‘Joannis Pennae' on [*1r]. Pietro da Pistoia (sixteenth century); a washed inscription in his hand on F6v; ‘Io Piero da Pistoia, visitatore de' fratri Jesuati de sancto Hieronymo, facio fede chome Io o dato in conto | a frate Dominico [ ] [ ] possa [t?]enere a presso | di se questo presente libro da portare dove | andero astare nela [ ] . . . | e per fede del uero o fato questa scrip^a | de mano questo 9(?) di giugno 1526 (or 1576?)'. Purchased for £1. 12. 6; see Books Purchased (1858), 99. SHELFMARK: Auct. Q inf. 2.20.
2. S-136(2) Second copy Binding: Eighteenth-century half red morocco over paper boards; azure pastedowns. Size: 308 × 201 × 28 mm. Size of leaf: 299 × 187 mm. A few brackets are supplied in red ink. Provenance: Paget Jackson Toynbee (1855-1932). Bequeathed in 1932. SHELFMARK: Toynbee 3402.