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Tragedies

cu[m] duobus co[m]mentis

Also known as L. Annei Senecae Tragoediae; Seneca his tenne tragedies

by Seneca the Younger, François-Régis Chaumartin, Paul Jal, Friedrich Leo, Daniel Caietanus, John Boyd Thacher Collection DLC, John Davis Batchelder Collection DLC, Gellio Bernardino Marmitta, Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Boston Public Library. Thomas Pennant Barton Collection of Shakespeare, Jasper Heywood, Alexander Neville, Thomas Newton, John Studley & d. 1617 Thomas Nuce

  • First published:
  • 15th century
  • Languages: Catalan, English, ENM, French, German, Ancient Greek, Italian, Latin, Multiple languages, Spanish
  • Content type: Primary source

Book digitized by Google from the library of the University of Michigan and uploaded to the Internet Archive by user tpb. Title from leaf Ia (immediately preceding the Senecan text, which begins there) The commentaries are by Gellio Bernardino Marmitta and Daniel Caietanus. Marmitta's was previously printed in a 1491 incunabulum; cf. BM 15th cent Imprint from colophon Signatures: A⁴ a-b⁸ c-z⁶ &⁴ Goff Hain-Copinger BM 15th cent. LC copy: contemporary beech boards, with 4 clasps (clasp on lower edge lost) fastening on lower cover; rebacked in tooled brown leather (re-used from another book?: title on spine: Senece Tragedie cum Persio, Brixiae, MDCCCC, Venetis (partially obliterated; date, following, completely obliterated). Title burned into upper board: Tragedie Senece. Provenance: Sir James Mountague, Her Majesty's solicitor general; purchased by John Davis Batchelder from Maggs Bros., London, Dec. 22, 1936; given by him to LC

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Seneca his tenne tragedies

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1581-01-01T00:00:00ZImprinted at London ... : By Thomas MarshEnglishPublic digitized item

L. Annei Senecae Tragoediae

Internet Archive unrestricted pre-1900 PDF scan

1493-01-01T00:00:00ZVenetiis : Per Matheu[m] Capcasam, ParmensemLatinPublic digitized item

Two tragedies of Seneca, Medea and The daughters of Troy

1899Houghton, MifflinEnglish, LatinPublic

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  • Contributing institution: Boston Public Library
  • Contributing institution: Harvard University
  • Contributing institution: University of Michigan
  • Contributing institution: unknown library
  • Digitization sponsor: Boston Public Library
  • Digitization sponsor: Google
  • Discovery required Internet Archive search metadata to report a PDF format; the exact direct-file URL is added only after the item's file listing confirms an unrestricted PDF filename.
  • Open Library reports 1 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
  • Open Library reports 62 editions; this snapshot catalogs one representative edition and preserves work-level ISBN, date, and publisher aggregates.
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