Shelfmark
Fe.8.02
Author
Collective uniform title
Tragedies
Title
L. Annæi Senecae et aliorum Tragoediæ serio emendatæ. Cum Iosephi Scaligeri, nunc primum ex autographo auctoris editis, & Danielis Heinsii animadversionibus & notis.
Varying form of title
Portion of title: Tragoediae serio emendatae
Varying form of title
L. Annaei Senecae et aliorum Tragoediae
Varying form of title
L. Annaei Senecae et aliorvm tragoediae
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni Batavorum, : Ex typographio Henrici ab Haestens. Impensis Iohannis Orlers, And. Cloucq, & Iohannis Maire,, 1611.
Physical description
[24], 584 p. ; 15 cm. (8vo)
Note
Includes the Octavia, formerly ascribed to Seneca.
Note
Leaves A3 and A5 missigned *3 and *5.
Note
"Iosephi Iusti Scaligeri Iul. Caes. fil. in Q. Annaei Senecae tragoedias, animaduersiones. Daniel Heinsius nunc primum ex autographo autoris edidit: ..." and "Danielis Heinsii in L. & M. Annaei Senecae ac reliquorum quae extant tragoedias animaduersiones et notae" have divisional half-titles, p. [435] and p. [481] respectively; pagination and register are continuous.
Note
Title page in red and black, with woodcut printer's device.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris inscription "Geo: Mitford" to right of title-page printer's device, with price 6s. Identified by Robert Birley as George Mitford of Durham, born 1666, Christ's College, Cambridge 1685; a clergyman of these names buried in Durham Cathedral, 1715. See Birley notebooks, Provenance IV.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris inscription of J. Gay at head of title-page.
Binding
Contemporary Dutch vellum laced case binding; three sewing supports; yapp edges; ms. spine-title "Senecae Tragoediae".
Copy-specific note
Previously Fc.6.21.
Copy-specific note
Ms. annotation on rear pastedown (4 lines in Latin and Greek).
Subject
Octavia, approximately 42 - 62 consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome,
Subject
Mythology, Classical Drama.
Added entry--name
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Maire, Joannes publisher.
Added entry--name
Orlers, Jan Janszn, 1570 - 1646 publisher.
Added entry--name
Clouck, Andries publisher.
Added entry--name
Haestens, Henrick van printer.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--title
Octavia (Praetexta)
Added entry--place
Netherlands Leiden.
Identifier
B32333