Tragedies : in Latin]. (DS3321) (Q16745)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444654, MS f Med.112)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
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| English | Tragedies : in Latin]. (DS3321) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Boston Public Library (8444654, MS f Med.112) |
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28 November 2023
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Tragedies : in Latin].
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D
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Petit, Samuel, 1594-1643
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Wells, Gabriel, 1862-1946
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Italy
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)--Massachusetts--Boston
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Manuscripts, Medieval--Massachusetts--Boston
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between 1400 and 1499
15. century
1400Gregorian
1499Gregorian
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Extent: 133 leaves : parchment ; 278 x 194 (207 x 95) mm, bound to 30 cm
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Ms. codex.
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In Latin.
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Bibliographic record created by BPL staff based on description by Dr. Lisa Fagin Davis.
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Secundo folio: Ferrum timere lateris...
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Collation: Parchment, fol. vii (later paper) + 133 + vii (later paper) ; 18−3 (lacking two leaves before fol. 1; fol. 5 is singleton) 2-168 ; quires signed in lower center margin of final verso of each quire. Modern arabic pencil foliation, upper outer corner of each page.
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Layout: 1 column, 34 lines (ruled width not completely filled by verses)
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Script: Written in a southern textualis libraria in brown ink with red rubrics, some rubrication guides preserved in outer margins, with the name of the speaker in the outer margins.
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Decoration: 5-line initials throughout in blue with red filigree and harping or vice versa, major speeches begin with 1-line initials in the same scheme, dialogue incipits alternate blue and red epigraphic capitals.
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Binding: 18th-century calf over pastebpoard, ruibbed and red-rotted, front cover detached, spine gilt in compartments, spine label reads "SENECA/ TRAGOR./ MoSCRIP[T]", seven paper flyleaves at front and back. In manila phase-box.
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Origin: Written in Italy in the 15th century. Lacking at least three quires at the beginning, the entire text of Hercules Furens and the first 382 lines of Thyestes. Some of the missing pages may be Biblioteca de Catalunya Ms. 632, a 24-leaf manuscript comprising only Hercules Furens (see L. R. Fernández, Catálogo de los manuscritos clásicos latinos existentes en España (Madrid, 1984), 24-25...
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Provenance: Pointing hands and NB marks throughout,15th- and 16th-century commentary added to margin on fol. 120v, at the beginning of Hercules Oetheus. Owned in the early seventeenth century by Samuel Petit (d. 1643), his signature on fol. 1.
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Immediate source of acquisition: Bought in 1947 from the estate of Gabriel Wells.
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Call number: MS f Med.112.
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Former call number: MS 1540.
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4 December 2023
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