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M.T. Cic. Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri quatuor. Eiusdem De inuentione libri duo.

Accession number
PML 125182
Published
Impressum Lugduni : Vincetius de Fortonariis, 1535.
Credit line
Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund, 1988-9.
Notes
The 1st work is wrongly attributed to Cicero.
Description
282 ; 17 cm (8vo)
Inscriptions/Markings
"C[e?] pr[ese]n[t] livre mon [?] Ramey bon filz de [?] & [?] qui le sieu[?]era [?] le vin m[']on[t] [?] ete donne par dame [?] d[']auvergne / Somme [ccc?]" inscription on verso of lower flyleaf; additional inscriptions on page heavily obscured. Additional inscriptions on verso of lower flyleaf heavily obscured. Detailed inscription on title page.
Provenance
"[A] auvergn[e?]" inscription on title page. "Mihi competit Ludovico De auvergne" and "Ferou" inscriptions on verso of lower flyleaf. Purchased on the Gordon N. Ray Fund.
Binding
Contemporary limp parchment with yapped fore-edge cover extensions; paper label and manuscript on spine; manuscript on head; evidence of two pairs of fore-edge ties; parchment is very thin and ruled with incised lines.
Classification
Department