Rhetoricorum.

Accession number: 
PML 25597
Author: 
George, of Trebizond, 1396-1486.
Published: 
Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, [not before 1472]
Description: 
[156] leaves ; 35.5 x 24 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1928.
Notes: 

Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2r): GEORGII TRAPESUNTII VIRI DOCTISSIMI ATQUE ELOQUENTISSIMI RHETORICORUM LIBER PRIMUS.
Colophon (leaf [19]/7r): Qu[a]e superat reliquas artes est fact georgi / Ars bene dicendi munere nostra tuo. / Correxit veneta rh[a]etor benedictus in urbe. / Hanc emat orator qui bonus esse velit. / Si nescis ubi sit venalis: qu[a]ere lemanum / Spiram: qui precii codicis auctor erit. / Coradinus.
Printed in types 1:110R and 6:110Gr.
Collation: [1¹⁰ 2-4⁸ 5⁶ 6-8⁸ 9¹⁰ 10-12⁸ 13¹⁰ 14-19⁸]: 156 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [19]/8 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: 33.4 x 22.8 cm.

Binding: 
Original uncovered beech boards (35.5 x 24 cm), sewn on 3 supports, with modern 1/4 leather by Duprez Lahey. 3 clasps, wanting.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue lombards. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations (keywords) throughout text. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed. Fore edge manuscript title: RHETORICA TRAPESUNTII. Binding price inscription, 15th century (leaf [19]/8v).

Provenance: 
Unidentified shelf mark: BNr. 6007 E/2 II. a. II. (leaf [1]/1r); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Heinrich Rosenthal, May 1928. NPM
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Department: 
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