IDENTIFIERS ----------- id: 307337 accession number: PB 29-2021 DATE AUDIT ---------- created: Monday 1 November 2021 updated: Thursday 8 June 2023 DESCRIPTIVE DATA ---------------- object type: Polain dates about 1474. For the attribution of the text to Martinus Dumiensis, Archbishop of Braga, see Nikolaus Henkel, Deutsche Übersetzungen lateinischer Schultexte: Ihre Verbreitung und Funktion im Mittelalter und in der frühen Neuzeit, Münchener Texte und Untersuchungen, 90, Munich,1988, pp. 306-309. Martinus's Formula vitae honestae, sive De quatuor virtutibus, is traditionally attributed to Seneca and is presumably based on Seneca's De officiis. The three fictitious orations ascribed to Demosthenes, Aeschines, and Demades are probably by Petrus Marcellus, bishop of Ceneda: see Remigio Sabbadini, "Antonio da Romagno e Pietro Marcello", in Nuovo Archivio Veneto, n.s., XV (1915), pp. 207-246, in particular pp. 241 ss. Coloured decorative initials. Marginal drawings in brown ink:The initial Q on the first page represents the Annuniciation angel and the Blessed Virgin. In the scroll uniting their heads are initials standing for Ave, Gratia, Plena, Dominus Tecum Maria. On sig, 6v the initial O represents two lions in circle with tails knotted. 10b and 11r and v, floral work. 13v initial G of bird and figure holding a horn. Some marginal contemporary notes on 17v and 19v. Contents: [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e. Martinus de Braga]. De quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus, sive De formula honestae vitae, [a1]r-[a6]r; [Pseudo-] Lucius Annaeus Seneca [i.e. Martinus de Braga]. De moribus, [a6]v-[b2]r; "Epitaphium Senece", [b2]r; [Petrus Marcellus]. Tres orationes habitae in senatu Atheniensi de recipiendo Alexandro Magno vel armis repellendo, attributed here to Aeschines, Demades, and Demosthenes, [b2]v-[b5]r; [Pseudo-] Bernardus Claravallensis [i.e Bernardus Silvestris?]. Epistola de gubernatione rei familiaris, addressed to Raymundus miles, [b5]v-[c3]r; "Quattuor sunt que per rectore[m] familie obseruari conuenit", 4 verse, reading "Sub timore congruo familiam tenere / Alimenta iuxta redditus exhibere / Mores quoq[ue] iustos docere / In domo hilarem temperate se exhibere", [c3]r; Proverbia, inc. "Optimus est in omnibus modus laudabilis q[ue] me[n]sura", expl. "Malum est loqui multa sed et peius loqui t[ro]pia ", [c3]v-[c6*]r; [Johannes de Hauvilla]. Architrenius [II, 484-93], entitled "Architrenius libro secu[n]do in fine in laudem ciuitatis parisiensis hec", inc. "Exoritur tandem locus . altera regia phebi : Parisius . cirrea viris . crisea metallis", 11 hexameters, [c6*]v. Binding: by Rivière & Son. Red morocco (19th century); spine blind stamped, border g.t. on inside covers, raised bands, g. lettering; a.e.g. object type: [21] leaves ; 20cm (4to). title: Annei lucij Senece de quatuor virtutibus liber Jncipit. LICENSING --------- text license status: CC0 image license status: CC-BY-NC-SA OWNERSHIP --------- instutition: The Fitzwilliam Museum department: Manuscripts and Printed Books STABLE URL ---------- url: https://data.fitzmuseum.cam.ac.uk/id/object/307337 DATING ------ creation date: 1472 - 1472 creation date earliest: 1472 creation date latest: 1472 CREATORS -------- maker: Martin, of Braga, Saint maker: Marcello, Pietro maker: Seneca, Lucius Annaeus maker: Bernard, of Clairvaux, Saint maker: Bernard Silvestris maker: Johannes, de Hauvilla maker: Guldenschaff, Johann maker: Winters, Conrad maker: Riviere & Son