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Title

Expedita ad eloquentiam via

Authors

• Renatus, de Seillons

Other related names

• Petrus, de Boussac, scribe

Call number

Ms. Codex 1069
(Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania, Rare Book & Manuscript Library)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 4212168
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4212168

Publisher

The University of Pennsylvania Libraries

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

1682

Place

France

Summary

Handbook for the study of rhetoric, typical of the curricula of the Jesuit colleges in France during the 17th century. It draws on classical sources to lay out, in a systematic way, the five parts of rhetoric: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and actio.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from title page; Zacour and Hirsch use the caption heading Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via (p.1).
   

Watermark

Partial watermarks appear to be 17th-century derivations of watermarks like Briquet Couronne 5091 (1424) and Briquet Lettres assemblees 9479 (1556).

Extent

112 leaves : 180 x 143 (129 x 92) mm. bound to 185 x 148 mm

Collation

Paper, i + 111; 1⁸ ( -1, 2, 3) 2-8⁸ 9⁶ 10-14⁸ 15⁸( -6, 7, 8); [ii] 1-123 123-221; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary parchment.

Layout

Written in widely varying number of lines per page; framed with embossed margins.

Script

Written in an italic script.

Provenance

• Sold by Librairie Moothamers, 1967.
   

Subjects topical

• Rhetoric--Study and teaching
• Rhetoric--Philosophy
• Oratory

Genres

• Codices
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--17th century
• Manuscripts, European

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