Ps.-Seneca, Seneca, Martin of Braga (Ps.-Seneca) — 1466; Netherlands or Germany (Kleve (?)) (fol. 66r)

Title

Ps.-Seneca, Seneca, Martin of Braga (Ps.-Seneca) — 1466; Netherlands or Germany (Kleve (?)) (fol. 66r)

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 143

Place of origin

Netherlands or Germany (Kleve (?)) (fol. 66r)

Date

1466

Language

Latin

Contents

Form

codex

Support

Parchment for the outermost and innermost bifolium of each quire, otherwise paper; Watson states that the watermark is probably Briquet no. 5799 (cf. WZIS), used in Utrecht in 1462 and other places in the Low Countries in the 1460s.

Physical extent

i (paper) + 72 + i (paper)

Hands

Humanistic-influenced Gothic cursive/hybrida

Decoration

One six-line initial painted in mauve, with reserved designs, and flourishing in red ink (fol. 1r); four-line initials in plain red with brown flourishing; two-, three-, and four- line initials in red or gray-mauve, with brown flourishing, one with a human face (fol. 30v).

Binding

Sewn on five bands and bound in 16th(?)-century red-brown morocco, the covers framed with a gilt roll tool, and fleurons on each corner; the spine densely gilt, with a title in gilt capitals, ‘SENE | OPUS | VARI’ in the edges of the leaves speckled with red and green. The foot of the spine with two printed paper labels, with the former (‘X. 1. | 4. 41.’) and present Bodleian shelfmarks. The Summary Catalogue compared the binding of MS. D'Orville 142.

Acquisition

Purchased from him by the Bodleian in 1804. Former Bodleian shelfmarks: Auct. X. 1. 4. 41 (cf. spine label).

Provenance

‘Deus assit’ in the upper margin of fols. 1r, 36r; 15th-century manicula and marginal notes (apparently mainly by the main scribe).

Jacques Philippe D’Orville (1696–1751), classical scholar. Listed in the catalogue of D'Orville's collection by C. J. Strackhoven (18th century, second half), MS. D'Orville 302, fol. 21r, without recording the source of acquisition.

By descent to his son, Jean D'Orville, b. 1734, and a grandson also named Jean D'Orville, who sold the collection to:

Rev. John Cleaver Banks (1765/6–1845)

Title

Minor works of, or attributed to, L. Annaeus Seneca

Shelfmark

MS. D'Orville 143

Summary

Comprises:

(fol. 1) 'Liber Senece de Paupertate cuius est vm capitalum': beg. 'Honesta quidem res est paupertas.'

(fol. 3) 'Liber de Remediis fortuitorum Senece ad Gallionem.'

(fol. 8) 'Liber Senece de Moribus ': beg. 'Omne peccatum est actio.'

(fol. 11). '... Liber Senece de Tranquillitate anime ad Serenum.'

(fol. 30v). '... Liber Senece de quatuor Virtutibus': beg. 'Quatuor virtutum species.'

(fol. 36). '... Liber Senece de Breuitate vite.'

(fol. 66). 'Recollecte ex quam pluribus varijs et diuersis Senece libris oratoris excellentissimi Cliuis Anno 1466°.'

This is part of a larger work, being foliated 94 to 168 in an old hand.

The two inner leaves of each section are parchment, the rest paper.

Date

written in 1466 at Cleve or Cleves in Westphalia (?)

Language

Latin

Physical facet

On paper and parchment, with an illuminated capital, binding, red leather with gold tooling (16th cent.?)

Physical extent

73 Leaves