Two fragments from Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 CE), Moral Letters to Lucilius, no. 102, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy, 15th century]

Two fragments from Seneca the Younger (c. 4 BC – 65 CE), Moral Letters to Lucilius, no. 102, in Latin, manuscript on vellum [Italy, 15th century]

c. 150 × 150 mm and c. 80 × 155 mm, each fragment with 13 lines of one column from a book written in 2 columns, 52 lines in all, written in a fine rounded Italian gothic bookhand, the text comprising parts of Ep. 102:11–17 (“nunc singulis cursim … qloriam quoque inquit latius” continuing on the next fragment: “fusam intellego consensum enim multorum exigit … quia aliud sentire non possunt”; and “claritatem esse laudem bonorum a bonis redditam … non verba illi benigna homin[um]” continuing on the first fragment “[homin[um sed iuditia promittimus … laus alit artis non”, recovered from use in a binding, with consequent damage, stains, worming, etc., but the text mostly clear and legible and each fragment with one or two wide margins