Add MS 70929

SENECA: letters of Lucius Annaeus Seneca; 12th-14th cent. Copies. Latin. In two parts: Part 1 (pp. 1-256) Letters 1-88; Part 2 (pp. 257-346) Letters 89-124. The supposititious correspondence of Seneca with Paul follows on pp. 349-351, and an index on pp. 353-356. Not used by L. D. Reynolds in his edition of Seneca's Letters in 1965. Given by Dominus Galfridus de Edenham, canon of Lincoln, to the Premonstratensian Abbey of Barlings (N. R. Ker, Medieval Libraries of Great Britain, 2nd ed. (1964), pp. 6-7); bookplate of William Charles De Meuron, 5th Earl Fitzwilliam of Norborough and 7th Earl Fitzwilliam of Lifford (p. ii), at Wentworth Woodhouse; deposited for some years in the library of Magdalene College, Cambridge. Assigned to the British Library in lieu of tax, 1992.

Vellum; pp. iii+356. Sec. fol. 'dicere nichil perdere'. 305 x 210mm. (text space 210/215 x 135mm.; 221 x 137mm. the first gathering). pp. 349-351 measure 33 x 201mm. (text space 211 x 160mm.). Part 1 (pp. 1-256): 1 col., mostly 26 lines, ruled dry-point. Part 2 (pp. 257-346): 2 cols., 41 lines, ruled plummet in various styles on thicker vellum. Pp. 349-351 1 col. of 38 lines. Pp. 353-356 (text space 211 x 160mm.) 2 cols. of 38 lines.