L. Annei Senec[a]e tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae / per exactissimi iudicii viros post auantium & philologum, D. Erasmum Roterodamum, Gerardum Vercellanum, Aegidium Maserium ; cum metroru[m] presertim tragicorum ratione ad calcem operis posita ; explanate diligentissime tribus commentariis, G. Bernardino Marmita Parmensi, Daniele Gaietano Cremonensi, Iodoco Badio Ascensio.

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An early scholarly edition of Seneca's ten tragedies, edited by and with the commentary of some of the leading humanists of the day. Seneca's text is leaded and surrounded by commentary.

Bibliographic Details
Uniform Title:Tragedies
Main Author: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 55 B.C.-approximately 39 A.D (Author)
Other Authors: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536 (Editor)
Vercellanus, Gerardus, 1480?-1554 (Editor)
Maizières, Gilles de, active 1507-1519 (Editor)
Marmitta, Gellio Bernardino, approximately 1440- (Writer of added commentary)
Caietanus, Daniel, -1528 (Writer of added commentary)
Badius, Josse, 1462-1535 (Writer of added commentary, Printer)
Tory, Geoffroy, approximately 1480-approximately 1533 (Artist)
Cooke, Robert, 1550-1615 (Former owner)
White, Charles Mason (Former owner)
Language:Latin
Published: [Paris] : Venu[n]da[n]tur ab eode[m] Asce[n]sio, [1514]
Subjects:
Tragedies.
Prices (Provenance) > 16th century.
Marginalia (Provenance)
Genre:
Tragedies.
Prices (Provenance)
Marginalia (Provenance)
Ownership and Custodial History:
Evidence of close reading by an early reader throughout the first pages of Hercules Furens, with many interlinear additions of punctuation and alterations to Seneca's text, plus additional marginalia on the commentaries.
Early ownership inscription of Robert Cooke, Vicar of Leeds (1550-1615), at foot of title page: Robertus Cocus ... est dominus, p[re]tiu[m] viij s.
Additional early price handwritten at head of title page (since erased).
Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of Charles Mason White (1772-1850), naval commander and employee of the East India Company, on front paste-down (motto: Semper vigilans); number 223 handwritten at bottom of bookplate.
Late bookseller's notes penciled on front paste-down.
Bookseller's description and correspondence available in MSS 466 box 2 folder 90.
Local Note:
Part of leaf a1 torn away at the lower outer margin, supplied in facsimile; leaves a2, c7, and c8 torn, affecting some text.
Binding Information:
18th-century marbled boards; rebacked with brown sheepskin in late 20th or early 21st century; red edges.
Physical Description:6 unnumbered pages, CCLXVII, 1 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)
Variant Title:
L. Annei Senece tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae
Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae
Format: Book

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