University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 1607

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1426

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 1607

Title:

Hybrid compilation of Seneca's tragedies and scholarly apparatus

Works of Seneca

Place:

Germany

Germany TGN

Date:

after 1589

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin, with occasional words in Greek

Latin WIKIDATA

Greek WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 73 leaves : paper ; 172 x 102 (134 x 70) mm bound to 180 x 125 mm

Former Owner(s):

Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887

Ernst Ludwig von Leutsch WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
Title supplied by cataloger.
Printed contents cataloged separately under the title L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis Tragoediae. Lectiones variae e MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae. Iusti Lipsi Animadversiones.
Collation of manuscript leaves: Paper, 73; 12 2-126 136(-1); [i-ii] (following printed dedication), [1-71 (66-71 blank)] (following all printed works), modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 21-23 long lines.
Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand; some annotations in the printed works by the same hand and other notations (often V.G.F. (?)) by another, perhaps later, hand .
Decoration: Passages from the tragedies and alternate readings of them written in red ink; running titles of the tragedies added to one printed work and a few marginal notes in others in the same red ink.
Binding: Contemporary (16th-century) blind-stamped pigskin with unidentified coat of arms on upper cover and arms of the city of Torgau on the lower cover.
Origin: Written in Germany after 1589 (Zacour-Hirsch).
Formerly owned by Ernst von Leutsch (professor, Göttingen, Germany); sold to the University of Pennsylvania as part of Leutsch's library (bookplate inside upper cover), 1890.
Transferred from Culture Class Collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Renaissance

anthologies

Manuscripts, Latin

Sixteenth century

Hybrid books

abstracts (summaries)

treatises

commentaries

codices (bound manuscripts)

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

Latin poetry

Early works

Latin drama (Tragedy)

Versification

Criticism and interpretation

Tragedies (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus)

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9952546523503681

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Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania