SENECA; c. 1300, s. xv 3/4

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Title

SENECA; c. 1300, s. xv 3/4

Shelfmark

Merton College MS. 300

Place of origin

Decoration: French. Hand: Franciscus Florius.

script of French appearance.

Hand: Gerard Iohannes, notary of Remiremont, diocese of Toul, France. Decoration: Italian.

Date

s. XV 3/4

c. 1300

Language

Latin

On f. iii, in a rough Italian cursive hand, s. xiv, is a table of contents to I, and ‘Libri Senece’. On f. iiiv are scribbles, s. xv, including an extract from ‘quadam epistola apostrophando ad Senecam’, ‘Plutarchus siquidem grayus uester et Trayani principis doctor comparans suos Grecos ad nostros latinos ...’. f. iv is blank.

Merton College MS. 300 – Part I (fols. 1–156v)

1. (fol. 1) SENECA Epist.

2. (fols. 1–25) SENECA Quaestiones Naturales

3. (fols. 25–7v) Florilegium of short moral sentences

4. (fols. 27v–9v) SENECA De Prouidentia Dei

5. (fols. 30–1) SENECA De Tranquillitate Animi

6. (fols. 31–7v) SENECA De Brevitate Vitae

7. (fols. 37v–49) SENECA De Ira

8. (fols. 49–53v) SENECA Ad Marciam de Consolatione

9. (fols. 53v–7) SENECA Ad Heluiam de Consolatione

10. (fol. 57rv) Epistolae Pauli et Senecae

11. (fols. 57v–115v) SENECA Epistolae

12. (fols. 115v–16v) Ps.-SENECA De Remediis Fortuitorum

13. (fols. 116v–17v) MARTIN OF BRAGA Formula Honestae Vitae

14. (fols. 117v–32) SENECA THE ELDER Controuersiae

15. (fols. 132–4v) SENECA De Clementia

16. (fols. 134v–56; 156v blank) SENECA De Beneficiis

Annotated in a humanistic bookhand (similar to that of Florius), and in a humanistic cursive.

Merton College MS. 300 – Part II (fols. 157–207v)

17. (fols. 157–205v) SENECA Tragedies

18. (fols. 205v–7; 207v blank) SENECA Apocolocyntosis

Merton College MS. 300 – Part III (fols. 208–17v)

(fols. 208–17v) Indexes to Seneca’s correspondence

Form

codex

Support

Parchment

Physical extent

222 leaves (iv + 219, omitting 129)

Binding

1963; full tan goatskin. Fols. i-ii and 218–19 are modern paper binding leaves. f. iii has the mark of a brass chain-staple near the foot of the foredge.

Provenance

On f. iiiv ‘Iste liber operum Senece est Iohannis ex Bello Vallorum familia episcopi Andegauensis.’ John of Beauveau was bp. of Angers 1451–1479.

On f. ivvis ‘liber Collegii de Mertone in Oxon’ incatenandus in communi libraria eiusdem ad utilitatem sociorum ac aliorum studentium ibidem Ex perquisicione magistri Ricardi Fitz James nuper Custodis eiusdem. Et continentur in hoc uolumine omnia opera Senece uiri disertissimi.’ It was placed in the library on 2 Aug. 1494 (Registrum, p. 184). For Fitzjames, warden 1483–1507, see MS 9. The inscription was written at least thirteen years after the book came to the College.

On f. ivvare the James no. ‘93’, ‘Q. 2. 13. Art:’, and contents (I and II), s. xvii. ‘13’ is inked on the foredge.

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