Shelfmark
MS 136
Author
Uniform title
[Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Italian]
Title
Seneca, Letters, etc. (in Italian). manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: L. Annaei Senecae Epistolae Italice
Publication, distribution, etc.
Florence, ca. 1375-ca. 1425.
Physical description
1 volume (ii, 132, ii leaves) : parchment, initials ; 30.5 x 23 cm.
Note
The letters of Seneca in Italian (ff. 4v-131v), followed by translations of the preface extracted from the Catalogus virorum illustrium of Jerome (f. 131v), and the first 13 of the 14 letters between Paul and Seneca (ff. 131v-132v) as found in Eton MSS 89 and 135..
Note
The main text comprises letters 1-87, 89-124 divided in 22 books (books 1-15 containing letters 1-87) 'le quali pistole e insngnamenti a adornamenti fecie translatare in lingua fiorentina Richardo petri cittadino di firenze'.
Note
Letter 89 is counted as two letters 'lxxxviii' and 'lxxxxix' (the second beginning at 'Hec Lucile virorum optime'.
Note
Letter 88 is prefixed to the main sequence (ff. 4v-7) as '... Il prolagho de llibro de liberali istudii di Senecha ...'.
Note
The main text is preceded by a table of the letters divided by books (ff. 1-4v), each preceded by a short summary.
Note
Written space: 230 x 180 mm.
Note
Two columns of 45 lines.
Note
Ruling with pencil.
Note
Collation: 1-15⁸ 16¹².
Note
Well written in the Italian equivalent of anglicana.
Note
6- and 3-line initials on ff. 1 and 7v, in colour on gold and coloured grounds, with a man's head in the Q on f. 1; other 2-line initials in blue with red ornament or red with violet or rarely blue ornament.
Note
Capital letters in the ink of the text filled with pale yellow in quire 1 only.
Note
Beautiful borders to the table of contents and to the first page of the text.
Note
Secundo folio: solitudine.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1720.
Note
Written by a scribe named in the colophon as Lorenzo di Steffano Sambarducci of the parish of San Felice in Piazza, Florence (transcribed in Ker and M. R. James as cited in the references below).
Note
Former Eton shelfmark: Bl.4.9.
Note
This catalogue record is based on the work of Neil Ker and M.R. James, as cited in the references below.
Citation/references note
Ker, N. R.. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, v. 2 (1977), p. 757-758
Citation/references note
James, M. R. A descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College (1895), 136
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 111
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 136
Provenance
No doubt bequeathed to Eton by Sir Henry Wotton in 1639.
Binding
18th century English calf binding by Slatter.
Subject
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C. - 65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium. Italian
Subject
Ancient philosophy Manuscripts.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 Sir former owner.
Added entry--name
Slatter, John, active 1693 - 1721 bookbinder.
Added entry--place
Italy Florence.
Language code
ita lat
Identifier
B50097