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Rhetoricae ad Herennium.

Accession number
PML 22220
Object title

Rhetoricae ad Herennium.

Uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Published

Rome : Wendelinus de Wila, 1474.

Description

[52] leaves ; 25.5 x 18.5 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1923.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): M. T. Ciceronis. artis. rhetoricae ad. Herennium. liber. primus.
Colophon (leaf [6]/8v): Impressus quoq[ue] est hic .M.T.C. Rhetoricorum novorum ad Herennium. Liber ultimus Rome Per me Vuendellinum. de Vuila in Artibus Magistrum. M.CCCC.LXXIIII.
Printed in type 1:108R.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-4⁸ 5¹⁰ 6⁸]: 52 leaves, leaf [1]/1 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 24.8 x 17.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: leaf [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
Modern quarter brown goatskin with paper sides over paper boards (25.5 x 18.5 cm) sewn on 4 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Variant title
Rhetorica ad C. Herennium
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, except for a few initials early in text. Annotations: Three contemporary marginal notations in two different hands.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Wilfred Voynich, Dec. 1923.
Classification
Century
Department