Octavia (fragment).

Description

Title: Octavia (fragment).
Creator: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created: approximately 1400-approximately 1425.
Publication Place: Florence?, Italy
Abstract: Manuscript fragment on parchment containing the end of Act 2 and the beginning of Act 3 of Seneca's Octavia
Description: In Latin.
Script: late Italian gothic with some humanist letterforms.
Decoration: calligraphic initials in margin begin each line; speakers indicated by paraph marks in red ink. Large ornamental initial in red ink at the opening of Act 3.
Provenance: Formerly owned by Bernard M. Rosenthal (BMR Misc. 10). Purchased from Bernard Quaritch, Ltd. on the Albert C. Childs Fund, 2007.
Extent: 1 leaf : 273 mm x 202 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscript Fragments in Beinecke Library
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Octavia (Fragment). eneral Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.