L. Annæi Senecæ philosophi Opera, quæ exstant omnia: / a Iusto Lipsio emendate et Scholijs illustrate.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1615
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Wimpole, Cambridgeshire
NT 3031456
Summary
Bibliographic description
[12], xxxvi, 795, [1] p. : ill., port. ; fol. Eighteenth-century pencil “252A” in top left-hand corner of dedication leaf (sig. *3r). Pencil underlining on pp. 95-99. Underlining in brown ink on pp. 542, 544, 548, 550, 593-4, 597, 599-600, 791 and 795. Manuscript notes in a seventeenth-century hand on pp. 234-8. Manuscript notes in a different seventeenth-century hand on pp. 691, 795. Drink stains on pp. 509-12. Provenance: armorial bookplate: The Honble. Charles Yorke [i.e. Charles Yorke (1722-1770), younger brother of the 2nd Earl of Hardwicke; Lord Chancellor, 1770]. Binding: seventeenth-century sprinkled, polished, calf over boards on five raised cords, blind double fillet above and below spine bands, blind roll in top and bottom spine compartments, remains of gilt spine title over black paint, double blind fillet with inner rectangular compartment and cornerpiece design on covers, red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD), author Justus Lipsius (1547-1606), editor Cornelis Galle (1576-1650), engraver (printmaker)