Scenecae [sic] Tragoediae.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1517
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3087011
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 207, [5] leaves ; 8vo. Running number: 7064. Water staining throughout. Provenance: eighteenth-century manuscript inscription in black ink on front pastedown: "E Musaeo G 1G J Bridges" [i.e. purchase code and autograph of John Bridges (1666-1724), antiquarian and lawyer; Bridges' library was sold in London, 7 Feb. 1725/26]. Lot 409 in Bridges sale catalogue 'Bibliothecae Bridgesianae catalogus' (London, 1725 [i.e. 1726]). Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire; Ellys bought a number of books at the Bridges library sale in 1726. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on five supports; double gilt fillet border; gold-tooled spine; gilt title tooled directly onto spine; red sprinkled bookblock edges.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD), author Hieronymus Avancius (fl.1500), editor Andreas Torresanus de Asula (1451-1529), printer Aedes Aldi et Andreae Asulani Soceri, printer