Rhetorica ad Herennium

Description

Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium
Creator: Pseudo-Cicero
Published / Created: [ca. 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (palimpsest throughout, from many different manuscripts, 15th century, primarily documents that were previously folded and a large service book with musical notation) of Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by a single scribe in fere-humanistic script with numerous abbreviations.
Red initial, 5-line, with purple penwork flourishing that extends down inner margin, marks beginning of text, f. 3r. Plain red initial, 3-line, f. 3v. Spaces with guide letters are unfilled for remainder of codex. Initial letter for each sentence stroked with red, ff. 3r-4r only.
Binding: Nineteenth century, England. Bound by Charles Lewis (London, 1807-36) in brown diced calf with a gold-tooled title: "Ciceronis Rhetorica MS in Membr". Edges gilt.
Provenance: Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1949 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + i + i + 76 + i + i : 195 x 135 (140 x 80) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Cicero.
Subject (Topic): Manuscripts, Medieval
Rhetoric
Subjects: Pseudo-Cicero
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rhetoric > Early works to 1800
Italy > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.