Accession number
PML 42095
Object title
Rethorica noua.
Uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Published
Neapoli : per Arnaldum de bruxella, MCCCCLXXII die xv Ianuarii [15 January 1472].
Description
[70] leaves ; 28 cm. (quarto)
Credit line
Purchased in 1950.
Notes
Authorship attributed to Pseudo-Cicero.
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/10r: .M. CCCC. LXXII. DIE .XV. Ianuarii completa rethorica noua. M. T. Ciceronis per Arnaldum de bruxella. Neapoli.
Printed in Arnaldus de Bruxella's type 1:124R.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰]: 70 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
One column, 29 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
First dated book printed in Naples.
Morgan Library copy only copy recorded in ISTC and GW (as of 23 August 2018).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 19.6 cm.
Title and imprint from colophon, leaf [7]/10r: .M. CCCC. LXXII. DIE .XV. Ianuarii completa rethorica noua. M. T. Ciceronis per Arnaldum de bruxella. Neapoli.
Printed in Arnaldus de Bruxella's type 1:124R.
Collation: [1-7¹⁰]: 70 leaves.
Paper format: Royal quarto
One column, 29 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
First dated book printed in Naples.
Morgan Library copy only copy recorded in ISTC and GW (as of 23 August 2018).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.3 x 19.6 cm.
Binding
18th-century(?) German half vellum, with blind-tooled paper sides, over paper boards (28 x 20 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves. Manuscript spine title worn away.
Variant title
Rethorica nova
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards and paragraph marks. Red rubric incipit: Marci Tullii Ciceronis Rethorica Nova incipit" (leaf [1]/1r). Annotations: A few sporadic contemporary marginal notations.
Provenance
Unidentified inscription/bibliographical reference: "Eberd 4291 Notr.," 19th century, in German hand; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Martin Breslauer, Nov. 1950.
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