Rhetorica ad Herennium

Description

Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium
Creator: Pseudo-Cicero
Published / Created: [between 1350 and 1400]
Publication Place: Italy (Venice?)
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (goatskin) of Ps.-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
Description: In Latin.
Script: Copied by one hand in small Southern Gothica Textualis Libraria (Rotunda) in two sizes.
Headings in red. Paragraph marks in red or blue. Plain initials (mostly 2-line) in red. Flourished initials of various sizes in blue with red penwork (a few have deviant colours). Each of the four books opens with a large flourished initial; the one at the beginning of Book II is a littera duplex (7 lines), the one at the beginning of Book I, of the same type, is more elaborate (14 lines). Both initials are followed by a line in fancy majuscules alternating with penwork.
Numerous wormholes in the covers and first and last leaves. Some irregular edges and corners.
Unbound.
Provenance: Purchased on the Edwin J. Beinecke Fund in honor of Herman W. Liebert, Yale 1933.
Extent: ff. i + 21: 290 x 200 mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Cicero.
Subject (Topic): Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval
Rhetoric
Subjects: Pseudo-Cicero
Latin literature
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rhetoric > Early works to 1800
Italy > 14th 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.