Codices Vossiani Latini
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Title:
Summarized description in English
Language:
Latin
Date range:
15th c.
Author(s):
Seneca (c. 1 BC-65 AD)
Description:
VLF 51 is a 15th-c. parchment codex, its leaves measuring 297 x 220 mm. It is constructed of 13 quires of mostly 5 bifolia, totalling 118 leaves (236 pages). A 16th-c. hand added foliation, but the numbers have been for the most part cut off. Written space covers 195 x 125 mm (40 lines ruled in dark ink). The text is written by a single scribe in Littera Gothica fere Humanistica. Two slightly later hands wrote an index, one of which wrote in Littera cursiva. The rubricator numbered each epistle in Arabic numerals. Up to epistula 15 on f. 11r, the scribe added personal names, variant readings, and omitted words in the margins. A slightly later hand added interlinear and marginal glosses. Each new book starts with decorated major initials in blue or red. Minor initials in blue and red are at the start of each epistle. Inscriptions are rubricated. The codex has a 17th-c. cardboard binding, protected by sheepskin, typical for codices from the library of Melchisédech Thévenot.
Classification:
Antiquity - Correspondence - Moral Philosophy - Classical literature
Other Resources:
==> Library Catalogue Universiteit Leiden
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
==> Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections database
DOI:
10.1163/9789004264243_F_051
Journal:
VLF 051 - Seneca Philosophus