Shelfmark
Ff.7.05
Main entry--uniform title
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Title
Rhetoricorum ad C. Herennium libri quatuor. M.T. Ciceronis De inuentione libri duo. Ioannis Michaëlis Bruti animaduersionibus illustrati.
Varying form of title
Rhetoricorvm ad C. Herennivm libri qvatvor. M.T. Ciceronis De inventione libri duo.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Lugduni,: Apud Antonium Gryphium., 1570.
Physical description
2 v. in 1 (296, [56]; 536, [72] p.) ; 12 cm. (16mo)
Note
Vol 2 title reads: M. Tullij Ciceronis Rhetoricorum secundus tomus. Horum catalogum sequenti pagella inuenies.
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
Signatures: a-y⁸ (y8 blank); aa-zz⁸ AA-PP⁸ (PP8 blank).
Note
Printer's device on title-page to both volumes.
Note
Main text printed in italic type. Woodcut initials.
Citation/references note
Adams, C1692 (vol 1 only)
Citation/references note
Baudrier, VIII, p. 356
Provenance
Ms. initials "I B" inscribed in ink on either side of the vol 1 printer's device.
Provenance
Blind-stamped initials "I S" on both covers (see binding description).
Provenance
Engraved armorial bookplate of Eton College on verso of title-page.
Binding
Contemporary brown calf binding; gold-tooled oval centre piece with initials "I. S." stamped in blind on either side; blind fillet to form a border; spine compartments with two blind fillets and small gold-tooled quatrefoil; four raised bands; ms. parchment guards; traces of one pair of clasps; gilt edges.
Copy-specific note
Some sections with ms. marginalia in three or more hands.
Copy-specific note
Previously: Dk.8.12, Ff.6.26.
Subject
Rhetoric, Ancient Early works to 1800.
Subject
Speeches, addresses, etc., Latin.
Subject
Oratory Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Added entry--name
Gryphius, Antonius, 1527 - 1599 printer.
Added entry--name
Cicero, Marcus Tullius De inventione.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
Language code
lat
Identifier
B32902