Accession number:
PML 282.1
Uniform title:
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Published:
[Venice] : [Nicolaus Jenson], [1470]
Description:
[68] leaves ; 29 x 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit Line:
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes:
BMC describes a different setting-up of the first three lines.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7⁸]: 68 leaves.
Colophon (leaf [7]/8v): MARCI TULLII CICERONIS ORATORIS CLARISSIMI AD HERENNIUM RHETORICORUM NOVORUM LIBER ULTIMUS FELICITER EXPLICIT.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 19.3 cm
PML copy with first three lines as in GW and BMC main entry.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Probably issued with Goff C-644.
Pseudo- Cicero.
Title from colophon.
Binding:
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled calf over heavy paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title:
Checklist title: Rhetorica nova
Inscriptions/Markings:
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations on first few leaves. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed.
Provenance:
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographical note (front fly leaf recto); James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey book label; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
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