[Hybrid compilation of Seneca's tragedies and scholarly apparatus]
- Description
- Collection of manuscript copies of supporting materials for the critical study of Seneca's tragedies, bound with Hieronymus Commelinus's 1589 edition of the tragedies of Seneca, the Animadversiones of Justius Lipsius on the tragedies, and Commelinus's variant readings. The manuscript materials are the introduction to abstracts (periochae) of the tragedies traditionally attributed to Luctantii Grammatici and edited by Georgius Fabricius of Chemnitz, followed by the abstracts for only two of the tragedies, Hercules Furens and Hercules Oeteus; a dedicatory letter dated 1565 from Fabricius to the sons of Count Palatine Wolfgang of Zweibrücken; excerpts from biographies of Seneca; a treatise by Hieronymus Avancius of Verona on iambic trimeter in the tragedies; a treatise by Fabricius on all the other meters used in the tragedies; a dedicatory letter from Fabricius to Henricus Paxmanus, a doctor, followed by a second copy of the introduction to the periochae; and Fabricius's variant readings. These are copies of materials available in contemporary published editions of Seneca's tragedies. Some annotations appear in the printed works.
- Creator
- Fabricius, Georg, 1516-1571
- Avancius, Hieronymus, active 1500
- Form
- manuscripts (documents)
- codices (bound manuscripts)
- abstracts (summaries)
- anthologies
- commentaries
- treatises
- Manuscripts, Renaissance
- Date
- 1589
- Language
- Latin
- Greek, Ancient (to 1453)
- Subject
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Criticism and interpretation
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Tragedies Criticism and interpretation
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D. Versification
- Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D.
- Latin drama (Tragedy) -- Early works to 1800
- Latin poetry -- Early works to 1800
- Latin poetry
- Latin drama (Tragedy)
- Versification
- Criticism and interpretation
- Extent
- 73 leaves : paper ; 172 x 102 (134 x 70) mm bound to 180 x 125 mm
- Notes
- Ms. codex.
- Title supplied by cataloger.
- Printed contents cataloged separately under the title L. Annaei Senecae Cordubensis Tragoediae. Lectiones variae e MS libris Bibliothecae Palatinae aliisque descriptae. Iusti Lipsi Animadversiones.
- Table of contents: 1. f.i recto-ii verso: De periochis (Hercules Furens, Hercules Oeteus).
- Table of contents: 2. f.1r-32r: De omnibus in tragoediis Senecae carminum generibus / Hieronymi Avantii, Georgii Fabricii.
- Table of contents: 3. f.33v-65r: Georgii Fabricii Chemnicensis in Senecae tragoediis lectionis diversitas.
- Collation of manuscript leaves: Paper, 73; 1² 2-12⁶ 13⁶(-1); [i-ii] (following printed dedication), [1-71 (66-71 blank)] (following all printed works), modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
- Layout: Written in 21-23 long lines.
- Script: Written in a humanistic script by a single hand; some annotations in the printed works by the same hand and other notations (often V.G.F. (?)) by another, perhaps later, hand .
- Decoration: Passages from the tragedies and alternate readings of them written in red ink; running titles of the tragedies added to one printed work and a few marginal notes in others in the same red ink.
- Binding: Contemporary (16th-century) blind-stamped pigskin with unidentified coat of arms on upper cover and arms of the city of Torgau on the lower cover.
- Origin: Written in Germany after 1589 (Zacour-Hirsch).
- Latin, with occasional words in Greek.
- Related works
- Digital facsimile for browsing (Colenda): https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p38s4jq0z
- Also listed in
- Penn Libraries Catalog
- Physical Location
- Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1607
- Provenance
- Formerly owned by Ernst von Leutsch (professor, Göttingen, Germany); sold to the University of Pennsylvania as part of Leutsch's library (bookplate inside upper cover), 1890.
- Transferred from Culture Class Collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2011.
- Leutsch, Ernst von, 1808-1887, former owner.
- Rights
- http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
- Resource Type
- Text
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