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15th-century copy of a systematic treatise on rhetoric composed in the first century B.C. and frequently attributed to Cicero into the Renaissance. The text was the foundation for the study of rhetoric in the medieval and Renaissance periods. This manuscript is in an unusual small format. It is divided into 6 books rather than the customary 4, with the influential Book 4 divided into 3 parts so that Book 5 contains the figures of diction and Book 6 contains the figures of thought.
Support: parchment; Extent: 130 leaves : 120 x 85 (74-76 x 53-55) mm. bound to 130 x 98 mm; Collation: Parchment, i (modern) + 130 + i (modern); 1-13¹⁰; [1-130], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; first recto of each gathering also foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower center.
Written in 18 long lines; faintly ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.
Written in a protohumanistic script.
4-line initial in blue with red penwork and three-quarter border in red and blue penwork (water-damaged, f. 1r); 3- and 4-line initials, at the beginning of each book, either blue with red penwork or red with blue or purple penwork and marginal extensions (f. 18r, 48v, 73r, 86v, 109r); numerous 2-line initials alternating between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; rubricated in red except for some rubrications in blue at book divisions; initials in text and catchwords touched with yellow.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Venice?, Italy
Written in northern Italy, possibly Venice, between 1440 and 1460 (Les Enluminures).
Modern calf, blind-tooled.
Latin
Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2013.
Venice?, Italy
Written in northern Italy, possibly Venice, between 1440 and 1460 (Les Enluminures).
Latin
Sold by Les Enluminures
15th-century copy of a systematic treatise on rhetoric composed in the first century B.C. and frequently attributed to Cicero into the Renaissance. The text was the foundation for the study of rhetoric in the medieval and Renaissance periods. This manuscript is in an unusual small format. It is divided into 6 books rather than the customary 4, with the influential Book 4 divided into 3 parts so that Book 5 contains the figures of diction and Book 6 contains the figures of thought.
Ms. codex.
Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
Written in a protohumanistic script.
4-line initial in blue with red penwork and three-quarter border in red and blue penwork (water-damaged, f. 1r); 3- and 4-line initials, at the beginning of each book, either blue with red penwork or red with blue or purple penwork and marginal extensions (f. 18r, 48v, 73r, 86v, 109r); numerous 2-line initials alternating between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; rubricated in red except for some rubrications in blue at book divisions; initials in text and catchwords touched with yellow.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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