Description of University of Pennsylvania Ms. Codex 1630: Liber rethoricorum University of Pennsylvania These images and the content of Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1630: Liber rethoricorum are free of known copyright restrictions and in the public domain. See the Creative Commons Public Domain Mark page for usage details, http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/mark/1.0/. Metadata is ©2017 University of Pennsylvania Books & Manuscripts and licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution License version 4.0 (CC-BY-4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/legalcode. For a description of the terms of use see the Creative Commons Deed https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Ms. codex. Title from opening rubric (f. 1r). 3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206. University of Pennsylvania Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts Ms. Codex 1630 9958935643503681 http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/825807528 http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/5893564 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. Latin Liber rethoricorum Rosengarten Family Fund 1r Marci Tuli C. Rethoricorum liber primus, f. 1r 17v Liber secundus M. T. C. Rethoricorum, f. 17v 48v Liber tertius, f. 48v 73r Liber quartus, f. 73r 86v Liber quintus, f. 86v 109r Liber sextus, f. 109r

parchment

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

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.

 Written in 18 long lines; faintly ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines. Written in a protohumanistic script. 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. 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Modern calf, blind-tooled.

Written in northern Italy, possibly Venice, between 1440 and 1460 (Les Enluminures).

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