Rethorica noua.

Accession number:

PML 42095

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.

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.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Paste papers (Binding)

Half bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books