Rhetorica ad Herennium

Description

Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium
Creator: Pseudo-Cicero
Contributor: 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: Binding: Nineteenth century, Italy (?). Half bound in vellum with a gold-tooled spine and Spanish marbled sides. Ribbon bookmark.
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.
Watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn.
Extent: ff. i + 50 + i : paper ; 204 x 145 (122 x 75) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Italian

Format: text
Genre: illustrations (AAT)
Manuscripts
Marginalia
Material: paper
Resource Type: Archives or Manuscripts
Subject (Name): Pseudo-Cicero
Subject (Topic): Literature, Medieval--Translations
Manuscripts, Medieval--Connecticut--New Haven
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Memory
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Rhetoric--Early works to 1800

Access: Public
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Citation: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Shailor, B. Catalogue of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Marston MS 30.

Orbis Record: 9805942
Object ID (OID): 11034899
More Information: https://pre1600ms.beinecke.library.yale.edu/docs/pre1600.mars030.htm