Epistolae ad Lucilium / (DS16423) (Q68962)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (P702, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626488, in00000626488)
- Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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| English | Epistolae ad Lucilium / (DS16423) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (P702, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626488, in00000626488) |
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Epistulae morales ad Lucilium
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
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Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Wellesley
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Catholic Church--Sermons--Early works to 1800
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Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Epistulae morales ad Lucilium.--Selections--Italian
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Wellesley College Library. Plimpton Collection.--Manuscript.--702
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In Italian; Epistolae ad Lucilium translated from the Latin
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approximately 1150-1450
1150Gregorian
1450Gregorian
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Extent: 6 leaves : parchment ; 320 x 220 mm
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Title supplied by cataloger.
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Parchment, 437 x 320 (378 x 252) mm. 2 columns (117 mm each), 50 lines (lacking at least one at top). Single blind-ruled bounding and writing lines. Written in a romanesque bookhand in brown ink. Red semiuncial rubrics. 5-line initial [Q], yellow filled with blue, with white vinework with green and white scallops on red background. Written in S. Germany or Austria in the mid-twelfth century.
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Flyleaves: Lectionary preserving the Office for St. Euphemia (19 September): "[text] ... tristitiam vultus sui as scientiam divinam ... ; ... In quo loco fructificant orationes eius ... " Here folded in half and oriented sideways for use as front and back flyleaves (the upper half of the folio is the front flyleaf)
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Collation (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Parchment. 1², 2².
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Collation (Unidentified Italian homilies): Parchment, non-consecutive bifolium. 1². Catchword in the lower margin of f. 2v reads "condo che I[ ] sege"
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Modern pencil foliation numbers all leaves consecutively.
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Layout (Epistolae ad Lucilium): 2 columns (75 mm each), 59 lines. Single plummet bounding and writing lines.
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Layout (Unidentified Italian homilies): 2 columns (64 mm each), 45 lines. writing lines ruled in light plummet or blind.
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Script (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Written in a humanistic cursive in brown ink. Red rubrics begin each Letter with the Latin incipit in brown below.
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Script (Unidentified Italian homilies): Written in an Italian gothic bookhand in brown ink. Red rubrics.
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Decoration (Epistolae ad Lucilium): 3- to 5-line red initials with brown or blue filigree extending into left margin.
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Decoration (Unidentified Italian homilies): 3-line blue initials with red filigree extending into left margin.
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Origin (Epistolae ad Lucilium): Written in Florence in the late fourteenth or early fifteenth century; both bifolias were once used as wrap-around bindings.
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Origin (Unidentified Italian homilies): Written in Italy in the mid-thirteenth century; used as a wrap-around binding, probably for an account book (the date 1585 is written on the lower half of f. 1r)
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These three fragmentary manuscripts, of disparate dates and places of origin, were compiled into their current codex form before they were acquired by George A. Plimpton.
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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