Royal MS 15 C II

SENECA'S letters and other works, viz.:

1. 'Epistole ad sanctum Paulum transmisse a Seneca': the supposititious correspondence of S. Paul and Seneca, printed by Haase, Senecae Opera (Teubner Sedes), 1853, iii, p. 476. Preceded by the 'Prefatio beati Ieronimi presbiteri', i. e. cap. xii of S. Jerome, De viris illustribus (Migne, Patr. Lat. xxiii. 629). Preface beg. 'Lucius Ennius (sic) Seneca Cordubensis Fotini (sic) stoici discipulus'; text, 'Credo tibi, Paule, nunciatum'. f. 1.

2. 'Epitaphium Senece' (Haase, iii, p. 482). Beg. 'Cura, labor, meritum, sumpti pro munere honores'. f. 2 b.

3. 'Continentur in hoc codice Lucii Annei Senece litterarum moralium ad Lucilium libri numero xx'; really only the first volume, libb. i-xiii (Haase, iii, p, i). The books are not divided, but the letters are numbered in a 14th cent. hand 1-89. Beg. 'Ita fac, mi Lucili'. f. 2 b.

4. 'Liber primus (-secundus) Senece ad Neronem de clementia'; really (as Patrick Young notes in the margin) an abridgement of the two books De clementia (cf. 10 A. XII, art. 19). Beg. 'Scribere de clementia, Nero Cesar'; ends 'in rectum praua flectantur'. f. 82 b.

5. 'Seneca de paupertate': the collection of excerpts as in 11 B. III, art. 22 (a). Beg. 'Honesta, inquit Epicurus, res est paupertas leta'; ends 'diuicie insolentiam'. f. 86.

6. Without original title, but in Patrick Young's hand 'Martini episcopi de moribus liber': the ancient collection of aphorisms from Seneca and others (cf. 8 B. I, art. 4), but the present text is longer and has many differences of reading. Beg. 'Omne peccatum actio uoluntaria est. Educatio et disciplina'; ends 'quod odit non ostendit'. f. 87.

7. 'Seneca de remediis fortuitorum', nearly as printed by Haase, iii, p. 446, but without the 'additiones'. Beg. 'Licet cunctorum poctarum carmina'; ends 'ista felicitas'. f. 88 b.

8. 'Seneca de beneficiis' (so in margin, in Patrick Young's hand 'Ex libris de beneficiis excerpta'): the same abridgement as in 11 B. III, art. 22(c). Beg. 'Inter multos et uarios errores'. f. 90 b.

9. 'Incipit liber moralium' (14th cent. title): the Moralis Philosophia of Guillaume de Conches (cf. 8 A. XIII, art. 1). Without title or indication of authorship, and without the name of the person to whom it is dedicated. The sources of the extracts are not marked. Beg. 'Moralium dogma philosophorum'; ends (wanting the last extract of the printed text) 'exercitationemque desiderat'. f. 100 b.

10. 'Liber Petri Alfunsi': the dialogue against the Jews by the Spanish converted Jew Petrus Alfunsi (baptized 1106), see Migne, Patr. Lat. clvii. 535. Preface beg. 'Vni et eterno primo'; text, 'A tenera igitur pueritie etate'. f. 116.

Vellum; ff. 177. 11 in. x 7¹/₄ in. Beg. XIII cent. In English hands. Gatherings of 8 leaves (xi, xv⁶), with (artt. 1-9) signatures at the end i-xv (also at the beginning A-P). Art. 10 has a separate series, xii-xviiii. Double columns. Sec. fol. (art.1) 'subsecundo'; art. 10, 'A tenera'. Ornamental initials in red, blue, and green. Old Royal press-mark of a seal (a ship); not in cat. of 1666; CMA. 8598.