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<dl><dd>[14] leaves ; 22 cm (4to)</dd>
<dd>Title from Incunabula short title catalogue. Title on b6 verso: Seneca de quattuor virtutibus cardinalibus</dd>
<dd>Higman's name from ISTC, imprint otherwise derived from colophon (b6 recto): Opusculu[m] Senece de q[ua]ttuor virtutib[us] cardinalib[us] p[er] Uolffga[n]gu[m] Hopyl Parisii [c]ivico s[an]c[t]i Iacobi ad int[er]signiu[m] s[an]c[t]i Georgij impressu[m[ finit</dd>
<dd>Martinus's Formula vitae honestae, sive De quatuor virtutibus, is traditionally attributed to Seneca and is presumably based on Seneca's De officiis. For the attribution of the text, see Nikolaus Henkel, Deutsche Ubersetzungen lateinischer Schultexte: Ihre Verbreitung und Funktion im Mittelalter und in der fruhen Neuzeit, Munchener Texte und Untersuchungen, 90, Munich,1988, pp. 306-309</dd>
<dd>Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ (a1=blank?)</dd>
<dd>Chancery quarto; text interspersed with commentary, a8 verso: 35 lines of commentary (62G) above five lines of text (92G), with printed marginalia, 139 x 89 (118) mm; types: 130G (headings, title), 92G (text), 62G (commentary, marginalia, often mixed with 63G); initial spaces with guide letters</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.8 no.2 imperfect: a1 (blank?) wanting. Leaf dimensions: 205 x 133 mm.</dd>
<dd>COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.8 no.2 bound with Filelfo, Francisco. Epistolae. Paris: Félix Baligault, for André Bocard, 1494 (ISTC ip00595000).</dd>
<dd>PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.405.8 no.2 with early/contemporary marginal annotation and underlining.</dd>
<dd>BINDING: See Q.405.8 no.1 for full description.</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Cardinal virtues in literature; Ethics -- Early works to 1800</div>
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Martin, of Braga, Saint, approximately 515-579 or 580</div>
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