Tragedies : in Latin

Item Information

Title:
Tragedies : in Latin
Author:
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Former owner:
Petit, Samuel, 1594-1643
Former owner:
Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946
Date:
[1400–1499]
Format:
Manuscripts
Books
Genre:
Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
Manuscripts, Medieval--Italy
Manicules
Marginalia
Autographs
Calf bindings
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Medieval and Early Renaissance Manuscripts (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy
Extent:
133 leaves : parchment ; 278 x 194 (207 x 95) mm, bound to 30 cm
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Place of origin:
[Italy]
Language:
Latin
Table of Contents:
1. fol. 1-11: Thyestes (lines 383 fol.) (begins imperfectly: lacking Hercules Furens and lines 1-382 of Thyestes).
2. fol. 11-21: Phoenissae (here called "Thebays").
3. fol. 21-41: Hippolytus.
4. fol. 41-57v: Oedipus.
5. fol. 57v-75v: Troades (here called "Troas").
6. fol. 75v-91: Medea.
7. fol. 91-105v: Agamemnon.
8. fol. 105v-120: Octavia.
9. fol. 120-133v: Hercules Oetaeus.
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century. Lacking at least three quires at the beginning, the entire text of Hercules Furens and the first 382 lines of Thyestes. Some of the missing pages may be Biblioteca de Catalunya Ms. 632, a 24-leaf manuscript comprising only Hercules Furens (see L. R. Fernández, Catálogo de los manuscritos clásicos latinos existentes en España (Madrid, 1984), 24-25). The prologues were edited by R. Peiper, "De Senecae tragoediarum vulgari lectione" in Festschrift zur 250jährigen Jubelfeier des Gymnasiums zu St. Maria Magdalena zu Breslau am 30. April 1893 (Breslau, 1893), pp. 161-164.
Notes (ownership):
Provenance: Pointing hands and NB marks throughout,15th- and 16th-century commentary added to margin on fol. 120v, at the beginning of Hercules Oetheus. Owned in the early seventeenth century by Samuel Petit (d. 1643), his signature on fol. 1.
Notes (acquisition):
Immediate source of acquisition: Bought in 1947 from the estate of Gabriel Wells.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Bond, W.H. Supplement to the Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, 212.
Notes (object):
Secundo folio: Ferrum timere lateris...
Collation: Parchment, fol. vii (later paper) + 133 + vii (later paper) ; 1⁸⁻³ (lacking two leaves before fol. 1; fol. 5 is singleton) 2-16⁸ ; quires signed in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
Layout: 1 column, 34 lines (ruled width not completely filled by verses)
Script: Written in a southern textualis libraria in brown ink with red rubrics, some rubrication guides preserved in outer margins, with the name of the speaker in the outer margins.
Decoration: 5-line initials throughout in blue with red filigree and harping or vice versa, major speeches begin with 1-line initials in the same scheme, dialogue incipits alternate blue and red epigraphic capitals.
Binding: 18th-century calf over pastebpoard, ruibbed and red-rotted, front cover detached, spine gilt in compartments, spine label reads "SENECA/ TRAGOR./ MoSCRIP[T]", seven paper flyleaves at front and back. In manila phase-box.
Notes (language):
In Latin.
Identifier:
06_01_018679
Call #:
RARE BKS MS f Med.112
MS 1540 (no longer used)
Barcode:
39999087646582