SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (ca 4 B.C.-65 A.D.) Opera philosophica . Epistolae . - Lucius Annaeus SENECA (ca 54-ca 39 B.C.). Declamationes, Suasoriae, Controversiae . Edited by Blasius Romerus. Naples: Mathias Moravus, 1[4]75. Royal 2 o (376 x 254 mm). Collation : (part I) [1-3 1 0 4-5 6 6-7 1 0 8-9 8 10-12 1 0 13 1 2 14 8 15 1 0 16 8 (-7)] (blank, 1/2r text, Seneca the Younger, 16/8r colophon, 16/8v register of incipits of each leaf, list of contents); (part II) [17-18 1 0 19-24 8 . 1 0 25-27 8 28 1 0 ] (17/1r text, Seneca the Elder, 28/10r register of incipits, v blank). 243 leaves only (of 253; lacking 1/1 blank, 26/2, 26/6-7 and with 1/2-3, 16/4-5 and 17/9-10 supplied in manuscript facsimile). 46 lines. Roman type 2:115. 2- to 10-line spaces for initials. Rubricated in red. Two pinholes visible in outer corners of each leaf. (Sheet 19 4.5 only partly perfected, leaving 195r blank, lower corner of 10/5 torn away, faulty printing on 14/5v resulting from crease while in the press, square loss on inner margin of 17/1, 18/1 with lower margin reinforced on verso, some occasional soiling and pale dampstaining.) Late 18th-century English gilt-panelled reverse calf (rebacked in reverse calf); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : early marginalia and headlines at end, occasional pointing fingers (some cropped or shaved) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. FIRST EDITION of Seneca the Younger's moral and philosophical works and of the extant works of his father, the rhetorical exercises grouped under the titles Controversiae and Suasoriae ; probable first edition of the spurious letters supposedly exchanged between Seneca and St. Paul (two editions were published separately in 1475). This is the second book printed by Mathias Moravus at Naples. Born at Zetkowitz near Olmütz, Mathias worked as a scribe in England and northern Italy before setting up the first printing press in Genoa in 1474, in partnership with Michael de Monacho, printing there a single known edition (Goff N-59). Mathias' Neopolitan output was second only to that of Sixtus Riessinger for del Tuppo: over 40 editions from his press are recorded, most bearing his name. HC 14590; BMC VI, 861 (IC 29395); CIBN S-183; Pr 6694; Goff S-368.
SENECA, Lucius Annaeus (ca 4 B.C.-65 A.D.) Opera philosophica . Epistolae . - Lucius Annaeus SENECA (ca 54-ca 39 B.C.). Declamationes, Suasoriae, Controversiae . Edited by Blasius Romerus. Naples: Mathias Moravus, 1[4]75. Royal 2 o (376 x 254 mm). Collation : (part I) [1-3 1 0 4-5 6 6-7 1 0 8-9 8 10-12 1 0 13 1 2 14 8 15 1 0 16 8 (-7)] (blank, 1/2r text, Seneca the Younger, 16/8r colophon, 16/8v register of incipits of each leaf, list of contents); (part II) [17-18 1 0 19-24 8 . 1 0 25-27 8 28 1 0 ] (17/1r text, Seneca the Elder, 28/10r register of incipits, v blank). 243 leaves only (of 253; lacking 1/1 blank, 26/2, 26/6-7 and with 1/2-3, 16/4-5 and 17/9-10 supplied in manuscript facsimile). 46 lines. Roman type 2:115. 2- to 10-line spaces for initials. Rubricated in red. Two pinholes visible in outer corners of each leaf. (Sheet 19 4.5 only partly perfected, leaving 195r blank, lower corner of 10/5 torn away, faulty printing on 14/5v resulting from crease while in the press, square loss on inner margin of 17/1, 18/1 with lower margin reinforced on verso, some occasional soiling and pale dampstaining.) Late 18th-century English gilt-panelled reverse calf (rebacked in reverse calf); quarter morocco folding case. Provenance : early marginalia and headlines at end, occasional pointing fingers (some cropped or shaved) -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. FIRST EDITION of Seneca the Younger's moral and philosophical works and of the extant works of his father, the rhetorical exercises grouped under the titles Controversiae and Suasoriae ; probable first edition of the spurious letters supposedly exchanged between Seneca and St. Paul (two editions were published separately in 1475). This is the second book printed by Mathias Moravus at Naples. Born at Zetkowitz near Olmütz, Mathias worked as a scribe in England and northern Italy before setting up the first printing press in Genoa in 1474, in partnership with Michael de Monacho, printing there a single known edition (Goff N-59). Mathias' Neopolitan output was second only to that of Sixtus Riessinger for del Tuppo: over 40 editions from his press are recorded, most bearing his name. HC 14590; BMC VI, 861 (IC 29395); CIBN S-183; Pr 6694; Goff S-368.
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