tis00436000

Text-inc Id:

tis00436000

Bod-inc Id:

S-147

Headings:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus Tragoediae (ed. and comm. Gellius Bernardinus Marmita).

Analysis of content:

1. a1r [Title-page.]
2. a2r Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: [Preface addressed] to Guilelmus de Rupeforti. Incipit: ‘[M]aiores nostri quodcumque studio, industria aut uirtute . . .’ See S‑146.
3. a2v Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: ‘In tragoedias Senecae interpretatio'.’ [Introduction.] Incipit: ‘[Q]ue potissimum ad explanationem huius preclari operis attinent . . .’ See S‑146.
4. a3r [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus]: ‘In tragoedias Senecae interpretatio'.’ [Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[S]oror”. Hic est primus actus in quo indignatio Iunonis habetur . . .’
5. a3r Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Hercules Furens. This and the other plays in this edition are edited by Marmita; see his preface. Sen. Her. F.
6. d5v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Thyestes.] Sen. Thy.
7. d5v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[Q]uis me”. Haec secunda tragoedia inscribitur. Thyestes . . .’
8. g1r [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[C]eci parentis”. Titulus huius tragoediae est Thebais . . .’
9. g1r [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Phoenissae.] ‘Thebais'.’ Sen. Phoen.
10. h2v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Phaedra.] ‘Hyppolitus'.’ Sen. Phaed.
11. h2v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[I]te umbrosas”. Haec tragoedia quae inscribitur Hyppolitus inter alias . . .’
12. k4v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Oedipus. Sen. Oed.
13. k4v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[I]am nocte”. Argumentum huius tragoediae, quae inscribitur Oedipus repetendum est . . .’
14. m5v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[Q]uicunque”. Haec tragoedia inscribitur Troas . . .’
15. m5v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Troades.] ‘Troas'.’ Sen. Tro.
16. o6v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Medea.] Sen. Med.
17. o6v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[D]ii coniugales”. Iason fuit Aesonis filius fratris Peliae . . .’
18. q6r [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus]: Agamemnon. Sen. Ag.
19. q6r [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[O]paca linquens”. Haec tragoedia inscribitur Agamemnon a materia quae tractatur . . .’
20. s4v [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus pseudo-: Octauia.] [Sen.] Oct.
21. s4v [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[I]am uaga”. Claudius imperator Romanus post alias sponsas . . .’
22. u3r [Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Hercules Oetaeus.] Sen. Her. O.
23. u3r [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Commentary.] Incipit: ‘  “[S]ator deorum”. Haec tragoedia inscribitur Hercules Oetheus . . .’
24. z4r [Marmita, Gellius Bernardinus: Final note, addressed to] the reader. Incipit: ‘Habeas amice lector commentaria in aureas L. Annaei Senecae tragoedias . . .’

Imprint:

Venice: Lazarus de Suardis, de Saviliano, 12 Dec. 1492. Folio.

Collation:

a⁸ b–z⁶.

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: is00436000 HC 14666; Goff S‑436; BMC V 491; Pr 5283; BSB‑Ink S‑272; CIBN S‑203; Oates 2066; Sheppard 4379. LCN: 14051484

Copies:

1. S-147(1) Copy Binding: Early eighteenth-century calf over thick rope fibre-boards, stained olive-green (later?). Formerly chained: staple-marks of a hasp at tail of lower cover. Sprinkled red-edged leaves. The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers; ‘21' in white across the head of the spine, and across the fore-edge. Size: 312 × 218 × 32 mm. Size of leaf: 305 × 203 mm. A few marginal notes in a sixteenth-century English hand, extracting key words and supplying underlining. Provenance: Nathaniel Crynes (1686-1745); see inscription ‘E libris Nath. Crynes' on a1r. Presented by Crynes in 1736: see Registrum C (Library Records c. 854), fol. 112r. Former Bodleian shelfmark: DD 21 Art. SHELFMARK: Auct. O 1.1.