Dedication to Pius IV in Latin; all other text in Italian., Engraved title page; architectural border with portrait of Vignola., First issued in 1562; second issue 1563? with the thirty-two plates and without date or place of publication., Imperfect: ownership inscription rubbed from title page. No. 1 of 3 titles bound together., and Three states of the first edition exist. None have publication dates or place; The first is the dedication copy in the Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale in Florence; the second state has a five line printed addition on the preface leaf, and additional printed annotations on plates 7, 8, 12, 14, 18, 24 and 25; the third state has an additional 5 plates. Cf. Walcher Casotti.
Subject (Topic):
Architecture--Orders--Early works to 1800 and Decoration and ornament, Architectural--Early works to 1800
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., and Watermarks, along upper edge: unidentified mountain and hunting horn.
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, and Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
Agenzia per l’autosoppressione del proletariato Internationale situationniste
Published / Created:
[1977]
Call Number:
2009 +361
Image Count:
5
Description:
The inside of the folded sheet contains two columns of text (on all 8 panels); the outside contains an illustration (on 4 panels), a quote from Guy Debord (on 2 panels), a title panel, and a colophon panel. Folded to 18 x 13 cm.