L. Annaeus Seneca /
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD)
Category
Books
Date
1592
Materials
Place of origin
Heidelberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3188952
Summary
Bibliographic description
[2], 516 p. ; fol. Running number: 4725. Provenance: manuscript initial (crossed-out) on front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; with Mitchell's manuscript code at foot of leaf: "β½" [i.e. beta½ = Greek number 2½]. Manuscript price (crossed-out) on front fly-leaf: "2-6". Manuscript code on title page: "a/a.n./". Manuscript marginal annotations and page references on p. 361-403 (i.e. Seneca the Elder's Controversiae). Binding: seventeenth-century[?] calf; blind thin thick thin fillet border; blind centrepiece stamp; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title label.
Makers and roles
Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the younger (c. 4BC-65 AD), author Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Seneca the elder (c.55BC-c.39AD) Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627) Marc-Antoine Muret (1526-1585)