Manuscript on paper of Nicolas Trevet, Commentarius in tragoedias Senecae
Description:
In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Tete de boeuf 14330, 14338, Piccard Ochsenkopf I.701, Briquet Main 11092., Script: Written in semi-gothic cursive script by a single scribe, above top line; headings in gothic bookhand., Red and/or deep aquamarine blue initials, 10- to 5-line, with penwork flourished in same color(s), mark beginning of each play. On f. 1r head of bearded man peeps out from behind foliage in interior of letter; on other initials penwork designs extend into margins to form borders (e. g., 170r). Plain initials, 5- to 2-line, paragraph marks, headings, in red., Many leaves stained and crumbling along edges; no loss of text., and Binding: Date? The backs of the quires are cut in, some in a W shape. Resewn on two tawed skin, slit straps. Endband sewn on a tawed skin core laid in grooves on the outside of the boards and nailed. The back oak board was previously covered with leather; front board is of unidentified wood. This seems to be a patched together binding using boards from different, possibly 15th-century, books. Presently quarter bound with brown sheepskin, blind-tooled, with radiant IHS in circles. Spine: supports defined with triple (?) fillets; an X with a central cross bar in the panels. Two fastenings, with the catches on the lower board. The upper board cut in for straps fastened with star-headed nails. Remains of title, in ink, on tail edge.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. and Trivet, Nicholas, 1258?-1328.
Subject (Topic):
Latin drama (Tragedy), Manuscripts, Medieval, and Scholia
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created:
[ca. 1150-1199]
Call Number:
Takamiya MS 85
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript fragment, on parchment, of a portion of Seneca, De Beneficiis, Book 4, Chapter 7.
Description:
In Latin., Layout: single column of 27 lines., Script: copied by one hand in Praegothica., Decoration: initial E in red ink with green tendrils., and Page is trimmed slightly at one edge, affecting the text.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Published / Created:
approximately 1400-approximately 1425.
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 712.90
Image Count:
2
Resource Type:
text
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., and 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.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
"Seneca sitting on the right, his feet in a basin of water, supported by two men, gesturing and looking to right towards two young men who take down his last teachings, one kneeling, while four others lean in attentively from the left, two with paper and quills, columns behind and richly dressed men with a soldier gathered among the columns in the background."--British Museum online catalogue
Description:
Title from text below image., Coat of arms engraved below image with the motto: Cor unum via una., Dedication below title: From the original picture ... in the collection of The Right Honourable the Earl of Exeter, to whom this plate is dedicated, by His Lordship's most obliged and most humble servant, John Boydell., Text below dedication in lower left: Size of the picture, 8 f. 4 i. by 10 f. 2 i. in length., Plate from: A collection of prints engraved after the most capital paintings in England. London: [J. Boydell, 1769], v. 1., and Plate numbered in lower left corner: No. 50.
Publisher:
J. Boydell
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.,
Subject (Topic):
Suicides, Basins (Containers), Writing materials, Columns, and Soldiers
Title from item., Date from volume for which this is an illustration., From: Hartmann Schedel, The Nuremberg Chronicle: Germany, ca. 1493., Michael Wolgemut's workshop created the woodcuts for The Nuremberg Chronicle., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
Subject (Topic):
Suicide, Philosophers, Blood, and Bathtubs & showers
Manuscript on paper, in a single secretary hand, corrected, containing the text of a school drama on the life of Oedipus. The text, mainly in fourteener couplets, draws heavily on Alexander Neville's verse translation of Seneca's Oedipus (1581), and also contains extracts from Thomas Newton's Thebais (1581). The original scenes show the influence of other contemporary verse, including Lyly's Euphues and the fifth book of Spenser's Faerie Queene (1596). The work was apparently intended for performance by the pupils of a grammar school, probably the Royal Free Grammar School at Newcastle upon Tyne and The final two leaves of the volume contain "A speach deliverd before the founders at the entrance of the schole," in the same hand. The speech refers to the Selby family (George Selby was elected Mayor of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1600).
Description:
In English., Title on front cover: Oedpius with a song., Watermark similar to Briquet 11046., and Binding: contemporary full parchment.
Subject (Geographic):
Newcastle upon Tyne (England)
Subject (Name):
Lyly, John, 1554?-1606, Neville, Alexander, 1544-1614., Newton, Thomas, 1542?-1607., Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D., and Spenser, Edmund, 1552?-1599
Subject (Topic):
Influence, College and school drama, English, Endowed public schools (Great Britain), English drama, and English poetry
