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De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus. Rhetorica ad Herennium

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Type of record: Book

Title: De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus. Rhetorica ad Herennium

Other titles: Rhetorica ad Herennium

Level: Piece

Classmark: BC Incunabula/CIC

Creator(s): Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Additional creator(s): Victorinus, Marius (Commentator); Torti, Battista (1481-1536) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)

Related people: Victorinus, Marius; Torti, Battista; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton

Publisher: per Baptistam de Tortis; Baptista de Tortis

Publication city: Venetiis [Venice]

Date(s): M.cccclxxxi.die xxiiii.Ianuarii. [24 January 1481/82]

Language: Latin

Size and medium: [178] leaves

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/43167

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991007742569705181

Collection group(s): Incunabula

Description

Signatures: a-l⁸ m⁴ A⁸ B-O⁶.


De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus with commentary by C. Marius Victorinus.


Rhetorica ad Herennium with anonymous commentary.


Printed with 56 lines of commentary surrounding the text.


Initial spaces, no guide-letters.


Indexed in: ISTC no. ic00647000.


Indexed in: Goff C-647; HC 5076; Pell 3653; Arnoult 455; Polain(B) 1094; IDL 1243; IBE 1616; IGI 2869; Sajó-Soltész 1002; Coll(S) 1197; Madsen 1196; Voull(B) 3923; Ohly-Sack 869; Mittler-Kind 296; Walsh 1915; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 580; Sheppard 3825; Pr 4605; BMC V 322, XII 23; BSB-Ink C-303; GW 6736.

Features

There are small sketches of two human heads in black ink manuscript on H4v and H5v, the former in profile.


Leaf numbers supplied in pencil manuscript, twentieth-century, at the top right of rectos.


Some water damage and cockling. The bottom right-hand corners have become softened and are fragile.


Bindings


Early twentieth-century binding of half pigskin over bevelled wooden boards. The spine has four raised bands. Blind-tooled in black in the second panel are the words: Cicero Aristoteles. Blind-tooled in black in the third panel is the date: 1481. The fourth panel bears the Brotherton Collection stamp in black. Size: 313 x 227mm. Leaf size: 301 x 213mm.


Bound with one other publication. Volume contents: 1. Cicero, M. T: De inventione sive rhetorica vetus, 1481. -- 2. Aristotle: Rhetorica, 1481.

Provenance

Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.

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