Rhetorica ad Herennium

Description

Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium
Creator: Pseudo-Cicero
Published / Created: [between 1400 and 1450]
Publication Place: Italy
Abstract: Manuscript on paper (coarse, remains of deckle edges) of 1) Unidentified Italian epitome of the Ps.-Ciceronian Rhetorica ad Herennium. 2) Unidentified and anonymous treatise on memory
Description: In Italian.
Watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn.
Script: Written in gothic bookhand by a single scribe, above top line.
Spaces left for initials remain unfilled, except on f. 25r where there are three poorly executed initials in red; guide letters for decorator. Paragraph marks and initial strokes, in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Half bound in vellum with a gold-tooled spine and Spanish marbled sides. Ribbon bookmark.
Provenance: Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1958 by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. i + 50 + i : 204 x 145 (122 x 75) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

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

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