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Ad Herennium rhetoricorum novorum.

Accession number
PML 282.1
Object title

Ad Herennium rhetoricorum novorum.

Uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Published

[Venice] : [Nicolaus Jenson], [1470]

Description

[68] leaves ; 29 x 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Notes
BMC describes a different setting-up of the first three lines.
Collation: [1-6¹⁰ 7⁸]: 68 leaves.
Colophon (leaf [7]/8v): MARCI TULLII CICERONIS ORATORIS CLARISSIMI AD HERENNIUM RHETORICORUM NOVORUM LIBER ULTIMUS FELICITER EXPLICIT.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.9 x 19.3 cm
PML copy with first three lines as in GW and BMC main entry.
Printed in type 1:115R.
Probably issued with Goff C-644.
Pseudo- Cicero.
Title from colophon.
Binding
19th-century blind- and gilt-tooled calf over heavy paper boards (29 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Checklist title: Rhetorica nova
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations on first few leaves. Contemporary manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, mainly trimmed.
Provenance
Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), armorial booklabel (front pastedown) and bibliographical note (front fly leaf recto); James Toovey (1814-1893), Burnham Abbey book label; Pierpont Morgan, purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Classification
Century
Department