Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Topica ... etc.

Authors

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius
• Boethius, d. 524
• Cicero, Marcus Tullius

Other related names

• Lessi, P, artist
• Michelassi, engraver

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1122
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9942610053503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/191849687
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4261005

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1475 and 1499

Place

Italy

Summary

A treatise on rhetorical theory written for C. Trebatius Testa in 44 B.C. Cicero's work is based on the work of the same name by Aristotle. Several pages (f. 3r-5v) of annotations have been added, which come from Boethius's In Ciceronis topica. The treatise is prefaced in this codex by a letter to Trebatius (which can be found in the collection of Cicero's letters as Ad familiares 7.19) explaining Cicero's reasons for writing and instructions for reading.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from caption heading for predominant work (f. 2r).
   

Watermark

Briquet Couronne 4862 (1483-4).

Extent

24 leaves : 296 x 225 (150 x 87) mm. bound to 302 x 228 mm

Collation

Paper, iii (modern paper) + 24 + iii (modern paper); 1-2²⁴; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchword, lower right verso (f. 12v).

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern vellum.

Layout

Written in 24 long lines, in red and brown ink, with marginal annotations.

Script

Written in a humanistic script.

Provenance

• Armorial bookplate with Florence skyline inside upper cover with motto, "Quo pulchrius lumine trino ex libris Petri Ginori Conti," artist's name P. Lessi and engraver's name Michelassi.
   
• Collector's stamp on various pages with crown and letters "P. T."
   
• Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's, cat. 15 (1964), no. 10; sold by Rosenthal in 1965.
   

Subjects topical

• Rhetoric, Ancient--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Annotations
• Treatises
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Annotated
• Treatise
• Paper
• Italian
• Italy
• Philosophy

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