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Seneca; Claudian, etc
Title
Seneca; Claudian, etc.
Created
France, [between 1150 and 1175]
Physical Description
ff. ii + 110 + ii : parchment ; 294 x 204 (218 x 150) mm.
Language
Latin
Notes
Script: Written in fine early gothic bookhand; arts. 11-12 in less expert hands.
Carefully drawn monochrome initials with modest penwork designs, 12- to 2-line, in red, green and blue. Headings in red.
Binding: Eighteenth century, France. Bound in light brown, mottled calf with a gold-tooled spine and red label: "Opera Senecae MS". Red edges. Mended at tail. Discoloration from bosses (?) of earlier binding on first and last leaves.
In Latin.
Record created by Beinecke staff from catalog description by Barbara Shailor.
Provenance
Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1954 by Thomas E. Marston.
Access and use
Material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript on parchment (good quality) of 2) Jerome, Prologus beati Ieronimi presbyteri. 3) Ps.-Seneca, Epistolae Senecae, Neronis imperatoris magistri, ad Paulum apostolum et Pauli apostoli ad Senecam. 4) Complete 6-line text of Anthologia latina 667. 5) Seneca, Ad Lucilium epistulae morales. 6) Seneca, De beneficiis libri vii. 7) Seneca, De clementia libri ii. 8) Martin of Braga, Formula vitae honestae. 9) Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum liber. 10) 19 sententiae attributed to Publilius Syrus and Seneca. 11) Claudian, Excerpta. 12) William of Saint-Thierry, De tribus dicendi generibus. Written in the Cistercian abbey at Igny near Rheims.
Publications
Faye and Bond, p. 69, no. 45.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
June 24, 2011
References
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 45.
Seneca; Claudian, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Seneca; Claudian, etc. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
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Genre/Form
Manuscripts, Medieval - France - 12th century.
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