Seneca, Lucius Annaeus: Opera philosophica. Epistolae.
Venice: Bernardinus de Choris, de Cremona, 31 Oct. 1492.
Fol. π2 a-g8 h4 i-z8 &8 [con]8 [rum]6 aa6. [2], i-ccviii leaves.
ISTC is00371000; GW M41245; Goff S371; BMC V 466 (IB. 23442); Bod-inc S-134; CIBN S-185; BSB-Ink S-268.
| GIP number: | S23 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Bh9-d.9 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Bound with: | The first of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, Tragoediae. Venice: Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca), 18 July 1493. |
| Provenance: | Robert Foulis (1707-1776) & Andrew Foulis (1712-1775), printers and booksellers, Glasgow. University of Glasgow: purchased from the Foulis brothers, 9 June 1742, for £1.0.0; see GUA 353; shelfmark ‘G.8.11’ on book-plate matching entry in A. Arthur, Catalogus impressorum librorum in Bibliotheca Universitatis Glasguensis (Glasguae: 1791). |
| Binding: | 18th-century calf; gold-tooled spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; front flyleaf has fleur-de-lys watermark, rear flyleaf has countermark “IV”. Size: 314 x 220 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 305 x 212 mm. |
| Annotations: | 16th-century marginal annotations in Latin (mainly extracting keywords), “nota” marks, manicules and underlining in quires a-c and p-y; on π1r (title-page) a 17th-century(?) shelfmark or inventory number “no xlv” followed by an unread monogram. |
| Decoration: | Initials supplied throughout in alternate blue and red; capital strokes, paragraph marks and underlining of epistle headings supplied throughout in red. |
| Imperfections: | None. |
