Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Ad Herennium rhetorica manuscript, 15th century / Marcii Tullii Ciceronis.

Other related names

• Bivero, Gundisalvus de, bishop of Salamanca., former owner
• Allen, Henry Ellis, 1807 or 1808- former owner., former owner
• Smedley, William T. (William Thomas), 1851-1934, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

MS V.a.106
(Washington, DC, USA, Folger Shakespeare Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224779

Publisher

Folger Shakespeare Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy, Spain, or France

Summary

Contains an incomplete text of the Book of Rhetoric Addressed to Herennius, a complete Latin rhetoric often included in the corpus of Cicero's works.

Notes

• Uniform Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium.
   

Extent

Leaves xxxii (paper) + 114 + i (paper); 115 x 85 mm

Collation

1 (4), 2-5 (8), 6 (6), 7 (8), 8 (6), 9-13 (8), 14-16 (6)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal catchwords are centered and enclosed in a rectangular shape throughout.

Binding

In limp Spanish vellum wrapper, possibly 15th century, attached to text block with leather strips; traces of leather ties; red edges. Medieval manuscript fragments used in binding.

Layout

Written in 21 long lines (dimensions of written space: 75 x 55 mm); below the first line; frame ruled in red.

Decoration

Red penwork initials throughout.

Script

Gothic script, possibly Italian, 15th century.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Henry Allen (Henrici Alani, bookplate); and Smedley (bookplate). Purchased as part of the Smedley Collection in 1924 by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, SM.13a

Subjects topical

• Cicero, Marcus Tullius --Spurious and doubtful works --Manuscripts
• Rhetoric --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --15th century
• Manuscript waste (Binding)

Keywords

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

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Rhetorica ad Herennium.; incipit: ... vesperi advenit simo ubi advenit mettarum insidias fecit postquam fecit vim in loco attulit. Rem dilucide ...; explicit: Hec omnia adipiscemus, si rationes preceptionis diligencia consequamur executacionis. [rubr.] Laus tibi, Christe, quam liber explicit iste Marcii Tullii Ciceronis ad Herennium rhetorica feliciter explicit. Iohannes. [f. 114v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Henrici Alani
• fol. 1r — Bookplate, W.T. Smedley