Shelfmark
Ff.7.03
Main entry--uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium
Title
Rhetoricorum M.T. Ciceronis ad C. Herennium, libri IIII. In eorundem obscura et difficilia loca annotationes perutiles & necessariæ, à Gyberto Longolio conscripta. Eiusdem M.T. Ciceronis De inuentione rhetorica, libri II.
Varying form of title
Rhetoricorvm M.T. Ciceronis ad C. Herennivm, libri IIII
Varying form of title
Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium, libri IIII
Publication, distribution, etc.
Coloniae Agrippinae : Apud hæredes Arnoldi Birckmanni,, Anno 1563..
Physical description
381, [3] p. ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Note
Final leaf Aa8 blank.
Note
Woodcut printer's device on title-page.
Note
Printed marginalia; woodcut historiated initials.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris inscription in a late 16th-century hand on leaf Aa7v: "Verus e[st] Gulihelmus Chetwynde huis libri pocessor Oxonie emptus, est hic liber et teste Roberto Astono qui nebulo est ut ita loquor!", repeated with minor variations in another hand; also "William Chetwynde". The two names Chetwynd and Aston may indicate a Staffordshire provenance. A Robert Aston was fellow and scholar of New College in 1564; perhaps barrister of Gray's Inn in 1581. See Birley notebook, Provenance IV.
Provenance
Additional ms. ex-libris inscription on leaf Aa7v of "John Harison", also "John Harrison". John Harrison was head master at Eton, 1630-1636.
Provenance
Ms. ex-libris inscription at head of title, struck through and unread.
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on title-page verso, obscuring ms. annotations.
Binding
Contemporary dark brown calf binding; blind-tooled lozenge centrepiece on both covers; blind fillets to form a border; traces of clasps; rebacked in late 20th-century dark brown calf stained to match; four raised bands.
Copy-specific note
Final blank leaf Aa8 lacking in this copy.
Copy-specific note
Foot of title-leaf cropped to remove inscription.
Copy-specific note
Some ms. marks of emphasis in text; scribblings and doodlings on recto and verso of title-leaf, retained front flyleaf, and leaf Aa7v including evidence of provenance (q.v.).
Subject
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin
Subject
Rhetoric, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Cicero, Marcus Tullius De inventione.
Added entry--place
Germany Cologne.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B32871