Seneca, Tragoediae, Paris, Ascensius, 1514, later calf, Wrest Park copy

Seneca, Lucius Annaeus

Tragoediae pristinae integritati restitutae... Explanate diligentissime tribus commentariis... (Paris): Jodocus Badius Ascensius, (5 December 1514)

folio (313 x 200mm.), title printed in red and black within woodcut border and with the Ascensius printer's device, white on black woodcut criblé initials, with final privilege leaf, later speckled calf, spine gilt in compartments, slight loss of text on H8v-I1r, joints cracked at head and foot

A respected critical edition, preparing using texts provided by Erasmus, together with the commentaries of Marmita, Daniele Caetani and Ascensius himself.

LITERATURE:

BP16 102628; USTC 144361

PROVENANCE:

"Jean Manth--", early inscription on title-page; "Sum [--] A[--] et amicorum", early inscription on title-page, partially erased; Anthony Earl of Kent, armorial bookplate dated 1702; Thomas Philip, Earl de Grey, Wrest Park bookplate (the library was sold at auction in the 1920s); D.L. Cumming, signature on inside front cover