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Persistent URL	http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:4240840
Title	Tragoediae / Seneca, VLQ 31
Content	Contains glossed tragedies by Seneca: (ff. 1r-21v) Hercules Furens. - (ff. 22r-39v) Thyestes. - (ff. 39v-49v) Phoenissae (codex: Jocasta). - (ff. 50r-69r) Phaedra. - (ff. 69r-85v) Oedipus. - (ff. 85v-103r) Troades. - (ff. 103r-118r) Medea. - (ff. 118r-132r) Agamemnon. - (ff. 132r-146r) Octavia. - (ff. 146r-173v) Hercules Oetaeus.
Creator/other	Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (approximately 4 B.C.-65 A.D) Patisson, Jo. Christina (1626-1689) Marle, Henri de (-1495) Marle, Jérôme de (-1539) Petau, Alexandre (-1672) Petau, Paul (1568-1614) Vossius, Isaac (1618-1689)
Shelfmark	VLQ 31
Subject (topical)	Reading culture manuscripts (documents) classical literature/philosophy (MMDC)
Subject (temporal)	Middle Ages 15th century
Note	Date and script: Based on colophon (f. 173v) "Lucij anney Senece. Tragedia ... Explicit feliciter die vicesima tercia mensis Septembris Anno domini Millesimo quadringentesimo quinquagesimo sexto. Jo. p..ss.n". - Scribe is possibly Jo. Patisson Textual: Octavia is attributed to Seneca, but at least in its final form not from his hand. Binding: Post-medieval binding. Description (Bouwman 2023): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:3619870 Description (Senguerdius & 1716): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:290399 Description (Catalogus compendiarius 1932): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:491294 Description (De Meyier 1975): http://hdl.handle.net/1887.1/item:109990 Also described by MMDC and A.W. Byvanckgenootschap (database RKD, The Hague).
Reference	Booton 2010 = D.E. Booton, Manuscripts, market and the transition to print in late medieval Brittany. Farnham 2010, Bouwman 2023 = A. Bouwman, Inventory of western medieval manuscripts held by Leiden University Libraries. Leiden 2023 Catalogus compendiarius 1932 = [H.P. Blok,] Catalogus compendiarius continens codices omnes manuscriptos qui in Bibliotheca Academiae Lugduno-Batavae asservantur. Vol. 1 (Leiden 1932), De Meyier 1975 = K.A. de Meyier, Codices Vossiani Latini. Vol. 2. Codices in quarto (Leiden 1975), Gumbert 1995 = J.P. Gumbert, '"Modern" layout in classical manuscripts'. In: C. Leonardi & al. (eds.), The classical tradition in the middle ages and the renaissance. Spoleto 1995, p. 23-32. Huisman 1994 = G.C. Huisman, 'Going, going, gone! Medieval manuscripts in book-sales catalogues of the Dutch Republic, 1599-1800'. In: J.M.M. Hermans & K. van der Hoek (eds.), Boeken in de late middeleeuwen. Verslag van de Groningse Codicologendagen 1992. Groningen 1994, p. 229-238, Lieftinck 1964 = G.I. Lieftinck, Manuscrits datés conservés dans les Pays-Bas. Vol. 1. Les manuscrits d'origine étrangère, 816-c.1550 (Amsterdam 1964), MacGregor 1985 = A.P. MacGregor, 'The manuscripts of Seneca's tragedies. A handlist'. In: H. Temporini & W. Haase (eds.), Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt. Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. II. Bd. 32 (Berlin 1985), p. 1134-1241, MMDC = Medieval Manuscripts in Dutch Collections Senguerdius & 1716 = W. Senguerdius & al., Catalogus librorum tam impressorum quam manuscriptorum Bibliothecae Publicae Universitatis Lugduno-Batavae. Leiden 1716,
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Part of	Vossius, I. (1618-1689)
Language	Latin
Country	Netherlands
Published/created	France, 15th century, 1456