Seneca — c. 1420–30 (Huter); Italian, Venice
MS. Auct. F. 1. 14
Bodleian Libraries, University of Oxford
Description
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Title
Seneca — c. 1420–30 (Huter); Italian, Venice
Shelfmark
MS. Auct. F. 1. 14
Place of origin
Italian, Venice
Date
c. 1420–30 (Huter)
Language
Latin
Contents
Form
codex
Support
parchment (FHHF)
Physical extent
163 + i (later paper) leaves
Hands
Gothico-antiqua / fere humanistica
Decoration
Historiated initials at the beginning of each play (that for Agamemnon lost).
Each initial with a partial border.
Penwork initials in alternating red and blue flourished in the other colour.
Binding
Red leather on boards, stamped and ornamented, with a shield bearing a raven let into the centre of each side (late 15th cent. Italian work, for Matthias Corvinus, king of Hungary, d. 1490), 'SENECA TRAGEDIE' on the back board and fore-edge. R25 in the classification of Corvinian bindings by Marianna Rozsondai in Nel segno del corvo (Modena, 2002), 249-59.
Acquisition
Presented by sir Henry Lillo, late consul of the English merchants in Constantinople/Istanbul, in 1608.
Provenance
Matthias Corvinas: his arms added, fol. 1r (type A1 in the classification by Csaba Csapodi, The Corvinian Library, (1973), p. 493); his binding, with arms and initials.
Removed to Istanbul by Suleiman 'the Magnificent' following the conquest of Buda in 1526 (Csapodi, p. 79).
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