L. Annæi Senecæ philosophi Epistolæ,. quæ exstant ex recensione I. Lipsii & Io. Fr. Gronovii.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1649
Materials
Place of origin
Netherlands
Collection
Gunby Hall Estate, Lincolnshire
NT 3086729
Summary
Bibliographic description
502p.. 12mo. MS twice on front flyleaf: Ideo tantium venisti[us], ut exire [a version of a line from one of Martial's epigrams: Ideo tantium veneras ut exire "Did thou come in, just to go out again?"] MS in same hand on next flyleaf: vitanda est improba [Siren …] turba [a partial quote from Horace: "Then learn the Siren indolence to shun"]. Provenance: MS on front flyleaf: W. Massingberd [i.e.: Sir William Massingberd, 3rd Baronet (1677-1723) or his father Sir William Massingberd, 2nd Baronet (1650-1719)]. Binding: Seventeenth-century full calf; nrecessed cords.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)