Shelfmark
Fe.7.16(02)
Main entry--uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Title
M. Tullii Ciceronis Rhetoricorum, libri quatuor ad Herennium.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Parisiis : Apud. M. Guichardum Soquand, e regione Hospitalis domus dei, prope paruu[m] pontem, ad insigne santi Martini., 1527..
Physical description
95, [1] leaves ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Treatise on rhetoric addressed to C. Herennius, written ca. 86-82 B.C. by an unknown author; ascribed in the mss. to Cicero, but this attribution no longer accepted.
Note
Final leaf is blank.
Note
Colophon has date: Decimo cale[n]das Februarias. 1527.
Note
Criblé initials; printed sidenotes.
Provenance
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris on title-page of first item in volume "Liber Edmondi Newton".
Binding
16th-century Flemish brown calf binding; blind panel-stamp in three compartments: (a) two vertical compartments each with a scroll of foliage and fruit, enclosing figures of animals, with legend in border "co[n]fitebor tibi / domine in toto corde meo / quoniam / audisti verba oris mei" (b) five compartments containing figures of a lion, a dog, a boar, a wivern and a dog (c) two vertical compartments as in (a), with legend in border "nisi dominus / edificauerit domum in vanum / laborauerunt / qui edificant eam"; four raised bands; blind fillets at head and tail of spine; wooden boards; ms. waste used for rear pastedown; remains of two pairs of clasps; red morocco spine-label lettered "Sallustii &c Flores".
Copy-specific note
Bound with: C. Salustii et Q. Curtii flores, selecti per Hulderichum Huttenum. Strasbourg : [J. Herwagen], 1528; and with: L. Flori gestorum Romanorum libri quatuor. Strasbourg : J. Herwagen, 1528.
Copy-specific note
Previously Fd.5.05.
Copy-specific note
Contemporary ms. marginalia; four lines in Latin at foot of colophon: "me felicem libr[um] ...".
Copy-specific note
Ms. inscriptions and doodles on front flyleaf.
Added entry--name
Reynolds, John, 1667 - 1727 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
France Paris.
Identifier
B32282