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Lucii Anaei Senecae Cordubensis: Hercules furens tragedia prima incipit

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [between 30 Sept. and 17 Dec. 1478]
Call number: 104041
Creator: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Occasional manuscript notes by a late-16th/early-17th century hand, possibly Italian, noting the abbreviated forms of the characters' names next to their lines in the text and adding metrical annotations. Pembroke collection shelfmark "Kd.13" in red ink on the front flyleaf. Acquired by George D. Smith in 1914 at the Pembroke auction (London, Sotheby's, lot. 179).
Dimensions: 28 cm (folio)
Associated people: Belfortis, Andreas, (active 1471-1493,)
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