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1. Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Creator:
- Pseudo-Cicero
- Published / Created:
- [between 1350 and 1400]
- Call Number:
- Beinecke MS 681
- Image Count:
- 44
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- 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., and Unbound.
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut and New Haven.
- Subject (Name):
- Pseudo-Cicero.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Rhetoric
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Rhetorica ad Herennium
