Harvard University, MS Lat 47

Metadata

DS ID:

DS11097

Shelfmark:

MS Lat 47

Title:

L. Ann. Senecae Tragoediae

Author:

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.

Seneca WIKIDATA

Date:

1432.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

lat

Latin WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 222 leaves, bound ; 29 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Butler, Samuel, 1774-1839

Samuel Butler WIKIDATA

Drury, Henry, 1778-1841

Henry Drury WIKIDATA

Heber, Richard, 1773-1833

Richard Heber WIKIDATA

Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872

Thomas Phillipps WIKIDATA

Note:

Written probably in northeastern Italy in a gothic bookhand by several scribes; dated by its colophon (f. 219).
In a brown calf binding by Charles Lewis for the Reverend Henry Drury.
In a protective tray case, 31 cm.
Formerly belonged to the Reverend Henry Drury; his sale, London, Evans, 19 Feb. 1827, no. 4060; to Butler, possibly Samuel Butler, Bishop of Lichfeld; Richard Heber; his sale, London, Evans, 1836, no. 1510, to Thorpe; sold by Thorpe, London, 1836, no. 1153 to Sir Thomas Phillipps (MS 9463); his sale, London, Sotheby's, 1896, no. 1064, to Quaritch.
Purchased with the Charles Minot Bequest, 1897.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Manuscripts, Medieval

Octavia, Empress, consort of Nero, Emperor of Rome, approximately 42-62

Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character)

Hecuba, Queen of Troy

Agamemnon, King of Mycenae (Mythological character)

Fables, Latin

Phaedra (Greek mythological character)

Thyestes, King of Olympia and Mycenae (Mythological character)

Hercules (Roman mythological character)

Oedipus (Greek mythological figure)

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990093222350203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University