Shelfmark
Fd.1.14
Author
Uniform title
[Works. 1632]
Title
L. Annæi Senecæ philosophi Opera quæ exstant omnia: / a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Opera quae exstant omnia
Edition
Editio tertia atque ab vltima LipsI manu: aucta Liberti Fromondi Scholijs ad quæstiones naturales, et Ludum de morte Claudij Cæsaris.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Antuerpiæ : ex officina Plantiniana Balthasaris Moreti, M. DC. XXXII. [1632]
Physical description
[16], xxxvi, 893, [5] p. : ill., port. ; Fo.
Language
Text in Latin with small sections within text in Greek.
Note
Includes index at end.
Note
Woodcut historiated initials and end-pieces.
Note
Four further illustrations (within text), all after originals by Peter Paul Rubens: frontispiece portrait of Justus Lipsius (engraved by Cornelis Galle; on verso of half title page), the Death of Seneca (also signed by Cornelis Galle), a portrait bust of Seneca (un-signed) and a small unidentified protrait (unsigned); all four plates were made for the second edition of 1614.
Note
Half title page: L. Annæi Senecæ Opera a Iusto Lipsio emendata et scholiis illustrata. ...'
Note
Engraved title page by Theodoor Galle first used in the Officina Plantiniana's 1605 'Opera omnia' of Seneca.
Citation/references note
Illustration of Books Published by the Moretuses. Antwerp: Plantin-Moretus Museum, 1996, p. 139
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf; blind tooled triple fillet border; blind tooled double fillet on spine, with two panels of hatching at head and tail; faded red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; five raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Previous shelfmark: Fd.2.15.
Subject
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C. - 65 A.D. Criticism, Textual.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Moretus, Balthasar, 1615 - 1674 printer.
Added entry--name
Lipsius, Justus, 1547 - 1606 editor.
Added entry--name
Galle, Cornelis, 1576 - 1650 engraver.
Added entry--name
Froidmont, Libert, 1587 - 1653 editor.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Added entry--name
Plantijnsche Drukkerij printer.
Added entry--place
Belgium Antwerp.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B28413