L. Annaei Senecae philosophi Stoicorum omnium acutissimi opera quæ extant omnia, . Coelii Secundi Curionis uigilantissima cura castigata, & in nouam prorsus faciem, nimirum porpriam & suam, mutata: quorum lectio non modò ad bene dicendum, uerumetiam ad bene beatéque uiuendum prodesse plurumùm potest. Totius porrò emendationis ratio, quid<q3> superiori editioni accesserit, ex sequentibus statim cognosces. Index rerum & ueborum copiosus.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1557
Materials
Place of origin
Switzerland
Collection
Lanhydrock, Cornwall
NT 3143110
Summary
Bibliographic description
[16],387,389-391,391-761,[15] p. . fol.. Lacks final blank leaf. With sporadic manicules throughout, in more than one hand. Annotated, mostly the text of the 'Epistolarum', in sixteenth/seventeenth-century hand. Possibly Ed. Henryson.. Provenance: In ink on flyleaf, in sixteenth-century italic hand 'Alexandri Humii ex bibliotheca Domini a S. cruce'. On title page (and on final leaf, with longer annotation) in sixteenth/seventeenth-century italic hand 'Eduard Henryson'. On title page in similar hand 'Thomas Henryson'.. Binding: Sixteenth-century calf, blind tooled with frame of filets. Gold-tooled with small tool at corners of frame and centre. Rebacked, nineteenth century, with new endpapers and pastedowns.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD) Celio Secondo Curione (1503-1569)