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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16423

Shelfmark:

P702

Title:

Epistolae ad Lucilium /

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium

Author:

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

Seneca WIKIDATA

Place:

Florence, Italy

Florence TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

approximately 1150-1450

twelfth century (dates CE) AAT

thirteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

In Italian; Epistolae ad Lucilium translated from the Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 320 x 220 mm

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Parchment, 437 x 320 (378 x 252) mm. 2 columns (117 mm each), 50 lines (lacking at least one at top). Single blind-ruled bounding and writing lines. Written in a romanesque bookhand in brown ink. Red semiuncial rubrics. 5-line initial [Q], yellow filled with blue, with white vinework with green and white scallops on red background. Written in S. Germany or Austria in the mid-twelfth century.
Flyleaves: Lectionary preserving the Office for St. Euphemia (19 September): "[text] ... tristitiam vultus sui as scientiam divinam ... ; ... In quo loco fructificant orationes eius ... " Here folded in half and oriented sideways for use as front and back flyleaves (the upper half of the folio is the front flyleaf)
Collation (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Parchment. 1², 2².
Collation (Unidentified Italian homilies): Parchment, non-consecutive bifolium. 1². Catchword in the lower margin of f. 2v reads "condo che I[ ] sege"
Modern pencil foliation numbers all leaves consecutively.
Layout (Epistolae ad Lucilium): 2 columns (75 mm each), 59 lines. Single plummet bounding and writing lines.
Layout (Unidentified Italian homilies): 2 columns (64 mm each), 45 lines. writing lines ruled in light plummet or blind.
Script (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink. Red rubrics begin each Letter with the Latin incipit in brown below.
Script (Unidentified Italian homilies): Written in an Italian gothic bookhand in brown ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration (Epistolae ad Lucilium): 3- to 5-line red initials with brown or blue filigree extending into left margin.
Decoration (Unidentified Italian homilies): 3-line blue initials with red filigree extending into left margin.
Origin (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Written in Florence in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century; both bifolias were once used as wrap-around bindings.
Origin (Unidentified Italian homilies): Written in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century; used as a wrap-around binding, probably for an account book (the date 1585 is written on the lower half of f. 1r)
These three fragmentary manuscripts, of disparate dates and places of origin, were compiled into their current codex form before they were acquired by George A. Plimpton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Catholic Church

Sermons

Early works

Manuscript fragments

Epistulae morales ad Lucilium (Seneca, Lucius Annaeus)

Excerpts

Italian language

Wellesley College Library

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626488

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/30459/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College