University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 916

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DS ID:

DS1720

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 916

Title:

Liber ep[istularum] Senecae ad Lucilliu[m

Letters

Author:

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

Seneca WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1375 and 1399?

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 12 leaves : paper ; 210 x 158 (170 x 112) mm bound to 218 x 149 mm

Note:

Ms. gathering.
Title from caption title (f. 1r).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 12 + i (modern paper); 112; [1-12]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchword for a succeeding gathering (f. 12v).
Layout: Written in 35-36 long lines.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script.
Decoration: Red ink for caption title, letter divisions, 1- or 2-line initials at beginning of letters, and slashes marking first letter of sentences; manicules drawn in margin.
Binding: Modern boards.
Origin: Written in northern Italy in the late 14th century? (Zacour-Hirsch).
Sold by Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), 1962.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

codices (bound manuscripts)

Conduct of life

Ethics

Early works

Stoics

Institutional Record:

https://find.library.upenn.edu/catalog/9940457513503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/items/ark:/81431/p3pv63/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania