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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

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Belgium Antwerp.

Language code

lat grc

Identifier

B28413
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