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Cinco libros de Seneca. : Primero libro Dela vida bienauenturada. Segundo delas siete artes liberales. Terçero de amonestamientos [y] doctrinas. Quarto [y] el primero de prouidençia de dios. Quinto el segu[n]do libro de providençia de dios

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: Enel año del nasçimiento del señor mill quatroçietos [y] nouanta [y] vno años. Aveinte [y] ocho dias del mes de Mayo. [28 May 1491]
Call number: 95876
Creator: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, 1924. List of commentaries on a2r-3r lettered in gothic characters; contemporary ms. comments in Latin in gothic hand on leaves p1v and r1; brackets and other reading marks. 16th century marginal black and red Andalusi-Maghrebi ms. annotations in Arabic, mostly keyword extractions. 18th century inscription in Spanish, with an Arabic name adapted into Spanish, on title page: “Regalado por mi Avircimtie[?]”. 19th century red ink signature on bottom of last page: Benito Hores Calderón. Blue monogram stamp containing initial "P", "C" and "M" on title page, with leaf partially pasted over it. From the library of Charles Thomast-Stanford.

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