“
to wit,
de irâ,
Consolatio,
de tranquilitate,
de constantiâ sapientis,
de otio sapientis,
de vitâ beatâ,
de brevitate vitae. 2. relate to others,
de elementiâ,
de beneficiis, and 1. relates to the government of the world,
de providentiâ.
”
In a letter to William Short from Monticello, October 31, 1819, Jefferson wrote: “
. . . Seneca is indeed a fine moralist, disfiguring his work at times with some Stoicisms and affecting too much of antithesis
and point, yet giving us on the whole a great deal of sound and practical morality.
”
N. La Grande, 1738-1775, French translator, was associated with the
Encyclopédistes.
[1324]
J. 87
L. Annaeus Seneca’s works
[
Eng. by Lodge.
fol.
1815 Catalogue, page 57. no. 138, as above.
SENECA,
Lucius Annaeus.
The Workes of Lvcivs Annævs Seneca, newly inlarged and corrected by Thomas Lodge D. M. P.
London: Printed by
Willi: Stansby n.d. [
1620].
B615 .E5
Folio. 502 leaves, engraved title-page by Elstracke, printer’s woodcut device and colophon on the last leaf, woodcut initials and headpieces; separate title-pages with dated
imprints for
The Epistles
and
The Memorable and Famous Tracts
.
STC 22214.
Lowndes IV, page 2241.
This edition not in Hazlitt.
Johnson, page 16.
Old calf, repaired at the joints; one leaf, b
3, torn across; the name of an early owner on the engraved title and on the leaf of dedication obliterated in ink. Initialled by Jefferson at sig. I and T. Earlier manuscript notes in ink and later in pencil with numerous
underlined passages are not by him.
Thomas Lodge, 1558?-1625, English author and dramatist. The first edition of this translation was published in 1614, and was without the
prefatory epistle to the translator signed W. R. to be found in this edition.
[1325]
J. 88
Boetius de Consolatione.
12
mo.
Foul.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 23, with the reading
Foulis.
BOETHIUS,
Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus.
Anicii Manlii Severini Boetii Consolationis philosophiæ libri quinque.
Glasguæ: in ædibus academicis excudebant
Robertus et Andreas Foulis,
1751.
B659 .C2
Sm. 8vo. 82 leaves, publishers’ advertisement on the last leaf.
Brunet I, page 390.
Graesse I, page 464.
Contemporary tree calf; not initialled by Jefferson. With the Library of Congress 1815 bookplate.
Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus Boethius, c. 480-524, Roman philosopher and statesman, wrote this work whilst confined in prison in Pavia. It was first printed in
Nuremberg circa 1471.
[1326]
J. 89
Boece de Consolation et de philosophie translate par Jehan de Meun.
4
to.
1815 Catalogue, page 55. no. 78, Boece de Consolacion et de philosophie, translate par Johan de Meun, p 4to.
BOETHIUS,
Anicius Manlius Torquatus Severinus.
Boece de consolation et de philozophie de nouuel translate de
latin en
francois en rime et prose [by Jehan de Meun].
Imprime nouuellement a
paris. [Paris:
Michel le Noir,
1520.]
B659 .C2 F4 1520
