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MS. Add. C. 249

Summary Catalogue no.: 29436

Seneca, Ps.-Seneca, etc.; northern Italy, 15th century, third quarter

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

(fols. 1r-215v)

Dialogi and De clementia

(fols. 1r-12r)

Rubric: Cum mundus prouidentia regatur: quare bonis optimisque uiris multa mala accidunt

(fols. 12r-34r)

Rubric: Ad Marciam de consolatione filii Liber

(fols. 34r-50v)

Rubric: De Breuitate vite ad Paulinum Liber

(fols. 50v-74v)

Rubric: Ad Gallionem de beata uita Liber

(fols. 74v-94r)

Rubric: Ad Serenum de tranquilitate animi Liber

(fols. 94r-107v)

Rubric: Quod in sapientem non cadit ira neque contumelia ad Serenum liber

(fols. 107v-121v)

Rubric: De consolatione fratris ad Pollionem Liber

(fols. 121v-138r)

Rubric: Ad Elbiam matrem suam de consolatione filii Liber

(fols. 138r-154v)

Rubric: Ad Nerronem de Clementia liber primus

(fols. 154v-158r)

Rubric: Ad eundem de Clementia liber secundus

(fols. 158v-172r)

Rubric: Ad Novatum de ira liber primus

(fols. 172r-191v)

Rubric: Ad eundem de ira liber secundus

(fols. 191v-215v)

Rubric: Ad eundem de ira liber tertius

(fols. 217r-331v)

De beneficiis

Rubric: Ad Liberalem de Beneficiis liber primus

Bk. 2, fol. 226v; bk. 3, fol. 243r; bk. 4, fol. 260r; bk. 5, fol. 280r; bk. 6, 296v; bk. 7, fol. 315v.

(fols. 332r-342v)

Ps-Seneca (Martin of Braga), Formula honestae vitae

Rubric: Liber de quatuor virtutibus

(fols. 342v-345r)

Ps.-Seneca, De paupertate

Rubric: De paupertate Liber

(fols. 345r-350r)

Ps.-Seneca, De remediis fortuitorum

Rubric: Ad Gallionem de remediis fortuitorum malorum Liber

(fols. 350r-356r)

Epistulae morales (88)

Rubric: De Liberalibus artis Liber

(fols. 356v-359r)

Bernard Silvestris, Epistola rei familiaris

Rubric: Epistola beati Bernardi de cura et modo rei familiaris utilius gubernande

Rubrics taken from the table of contents on fol. i verso.

Language(s): Latin

Physical Description

Form: codex

Support: paper

Extent: 1 + 359 leaves

Dimensions (leaf): 258 × 200 mm.

Hand(s)

Humanistic script. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 869)

Decoration

Good penwork initial, fol. 1r. (Pächt and Alexander ii. 869)

History

Origin: 15th century, third quarter ; Italian, North

Provenance and Acquisition

Raimondo Lupi di Soragna (1409-1484) (see Ferrari, 'Biblioteche', cited below); given by him to:

Milan, priory of San Pietro in Gessate, of the congregation of Santa Guistina: 'Iste liber est monachorum Congregationis S. Iustine ordinis S. Benedicti deputatus usui de monasterio S. Petri in Glassiati per... D. Raymundum de Lupis ... denatus [sic] die xx Decembris Mcccclxxxij, domno Floriano de Bononia in eodem cenobio priore librum ipsum acceptante', then later 'signatus in tali numero 202' (fol. 1r), see also fol. 8. See Mirella Ferrari, 'Biblioteche e scrittoi benedettini nella storia culturale della diocesi Ambrosiana: appunti ed episodi', Ricerche storiche sulla Chiesa Ambrosiana, IX, Milano 1980 (Archivio Ambrosiano, 40), pp. 230-290, at 248-56, mentioning the present manuscript at 252 and 255.

Guillaume Libri: his sale, 28 March 1859 and following days, lot. 929; sold to "Scalia".

Lot 556 in a 19th cent. English auction.

Bought from A. Russell Smith on July 21, 1884, for £2 2s.

Record Sources

Adapted by Matthew Holford (Sept. 2023), with additional description of contents and provenance, from the Summary Catalogue (1897).

Summary Catalogue, Vol. 5, p. 622

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Last Substantive Revision

2017-07-01: First online publication.

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