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Title

Liber rethoricorum

Authors

• Rosengarten Family Fund

Call number

Ms. Codex 1630
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9958935643503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/825807528
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5893564

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

between 1440 and 1460

Place

Venice?, Italy

Summary

15th-century copy of a systematic treatise on rhetoric composed in the first century B.C. and frequently attributed to Cicero into the Renaissance. The text was the foundation for the study of rhetoric in the medieval and Renaissance periods. This manuscript is in an unusual small format. It is divided into 6 books rather than the customary 4, with the influential Book 4 divided into 3 parts so that Book 5 contains the figures of diction and Book 6 contains the figures of thought.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from opening rubric (f. 1r).
   

Extent

130 leaves : 120 x 85 (74-76 x 53-55) mm. bound to 130 x 98 mm

Collation

Parchment, i (modern) + 130 + i (modern); 1-13¹⁰; [1-130], modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto; first recto of each gathering also foliated in pencil, lower right recto. Horizontal catchwords on last verso of each gathering, lower center.

Support

Parchment

Binding

Modern calf, blind-tooled.

Layout

Written in 18 long lines; faintly ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines.

Decoration

4-line initial in blue with red penwork and three-quarter border in red and blue penwork (water-damaged, f. 1r); 3- and 4-line initials, at the beginning of each book, either blue with red penwork or red with blue or purple penwork and marginal extensions (f. 18r, 48v, 73r, 86v, 109r); numerous 2-line initials alternating between red with blue penwork and blue with red penwork; alternating red and blue paragraph marks; rubricated in red except for some rubrications in blue at book divisions; initials in text and catchwords touched with yellow.

Script

Written in a protohumanistic script.

Provenance

• Sold by Les Enluminures (Paris and Chicago), 2013.
   

Subjects topical

• Rhetoric--Early works to 1800
• Rhetoric, Ancient

Genres

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

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Italy
• Italian
• Rhetoric

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Marci Tuli C. Rethoricorum liber primus, f. 1r
• fol. 17v — Liber secundus M. T. C. Rethoricorum, f. 17v
• fol. 48v — Liber tertius, f. 48v
• fol. 73r — Liber quartus, f. 73r
• fol. 86v — Liber quintus, f. 86v
• fol. 109r — Liber sextus, f. 109r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated border, f. 1r
• fol. 1v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 1v
• fol. 3r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 3r
• fol. 3v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 3v
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 7v
• fol. 10v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 10v
• fol. 18r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 18r
• fol. 34r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 34r
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 36r
• fol. 36r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 36r
• fol. 36v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 36v
• fol. 38v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 38v
• fol. 40r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 40r
• fol. 45r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 45r
• fol. 45v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 45v
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 46r
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 46r
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 46v
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 46v
• fol. 46v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 46v
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 47r
• fol. 47r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 47r
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 47v
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 47v
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 47v
• fol. 47v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 47v
• fol. 48r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 48r
• fol. 48v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 48v
• fol. 49r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 49r
• fol. 53r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 53r
• fol. 54v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 54v
• fol. 55r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 55r
• fol. 58r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 58r
• fol. 59v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 59v
• fol. 60r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 60r
• fol. 60v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 60v
• fol. 62r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 62r
• fol. 64r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 64r
• fol. 65r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 65r
• fol. 66r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 66r
• fol. 66v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 66v
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 67v
• fol. 68r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 68r
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 68v
• fol. 68v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 68v
• fol. 70r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 70r
• fol. 71r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 71r
• fol. 73r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 73r
• fol. 73v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 73v
• fol. 73v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 73v
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 74r
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 74r
• fol. 75r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 75r
• fol. 75v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 75v
• fol. 76r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 76r
• fol. 76v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 76v
• fol. 80v — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 80v
• fol. 80v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 80v
• fol. 81r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 81r
• fol. 82r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 82r
• fol. 83r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 83r
• fol. 83v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 83v
• fol. 84r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 84r
• fol. 84r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 84r
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 84v
• fol. 85r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 85r
• fol. 85v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 85v
• fol. 86r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 86r
• fol. 86v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 86v
• fol. 86v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 86v
• fol. 87r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 87v
• fol. 88r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 88r
• fol. 88v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 88v
• fol. 89r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 89r
• fol. 89v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 89v
• fol. 90r — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 90r
• fol. 91r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 91r
• fol. 92r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 92r
• fol. 92v — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 92v
• fol. 93r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 93r
• fol. 93v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 93v
• fol. 94r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 94r
• fol. 94v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 94v
• fol. 95r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 95r
• fol. 97v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 97v
• fol. 99r — Decorated initial, Initial G, f. 99r
• fol. 99v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 99v
• fol. 100r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 100r
• fol. 100r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 100r
• fol. 100v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 100v
• fol. 101r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 101r
• fol. 101v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 101v
• fol. 101v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 101v
• fol. 102r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 102r
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 102v
• fol. 102v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 102v
• fol. 103r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 103r
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 103v
• fol. 103v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 103v
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 104r
• fol. 104r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 104r
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 104v
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 104v
• fol. 105r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 105r
• fol. 105v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 105v
• fol. 105v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 105v
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 106v
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 106v
• fol. 107r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 107r
• fol. 107r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 107r
• fol. 107v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 107v
• fol. 108r — Decorated initial, Initial T, f. 108r
• fol. 108v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 108v
• fol. 109r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 109r
• fol. 110r — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 110r
• fol. 112r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 112r
• fol. 112v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 112v
• fol. 114r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 114r
• fol. 114v — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 114v
• fol. 116r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 116r
• fol. 119r — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 119r
• fol. 119v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 119v
• fol. 119v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 119v
• fol. 122r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 122r
• fol. 122v — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 122v
• fol. 123r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 123r
• fol. 123v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 123v
• fol. 125v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 125v
• fol. 126v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 126v
• fol. 127r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 127r
• fol. 128r — Decorated initial, Initial B, f. 128r
• fol. 128v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 128v
• fol. 129v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 129v