Seneca's tragedies, with commentary of Nicholas Trevet
Reference code
MSS/0063
Title
Seneca's tragedies, with commentary of Nicholas Trevet
Date
14th century
Level of description
item
Extent and format
Vellum; ff. iii + 228.
Quarto.
Leather binding, brown. Scribbles relating to classical metres, 16th-17th century, on the back flyleaf, fol. 228, with a pen sketch of a theatre stage (semicircle with a small diagram marked 'scena').
Quarto.
Leather binding, brown. Scribbles relating to classical metres, 16th-17th century, on the back flyleaf, fol. 228, with a pen sketch of a theatre stage (semicircle with a small diagram marked 'scena').
Scope and content
Tragedies (Hercules furens, Thiestes, Thebays, Ypolitus, Edippus, Troas, Medea, Agamemnon, Octavia, Hercules Oetheus), with the commentary of Nicholas Trevet. Written in England. Imperfect at the beginning and end. Pen drawings, heightened with gold roundels, of signs of the zodiac, etc., fols. 45v-7. Catchwords throughout. See also Bodl. Lib., MS Bodl. 292. Ker, MMBL, I (1969), 303.
Creator
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus, the younger (c 4 BCE-65 CE), philosopher and dramatist
Trevet, Nicholas (c 1260-c 1334), Dominican friar and scholar
Trevet, Nicholas (c 1260-c 1334), Dominican friar and scholar
Previous reference number(s)
SAL/MS/63
Language
Latin