Bod-Inc: C-210
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.
Analysis of Content
a1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. ‘Ad Herennium rhetoricorum nouorum liber primus [–quartus].’ Rhet. Her.
g4r Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Gregorium Heimburgensem. Der Briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius Piccolomini, ed. Rudolf Wolkan, Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Österreichische Geschichtsquellen, 61 (Vienna, 1909), 310-12, no. 135.
g4v Pius II, Pont. Max.: Epistola ad Johannem comitem ad Lupfen. Der Briefwechsel des Eneas Silvius, ed. Wolkan, Fontes Rerum Austriacarum, Österreichische Geschichtsquellen, 67 (Vienna, 1912), 79-81, no. 25. This edition incorrectly calls the dedicatee ‘Henricus'.
Imprint
Imprint: [Cologne: Johann Koelhoff, the Elder, c.1473]. Folio.
Remarks: Pr assigns to [Venice: Vindelinus de Spira] (see BMC V p. x).
Collation
Collation: a–e8 f g6.
References
ISTC: ic00674000
GW: GW 6712;
Hain: HC 5063;
Goff: Goff C‑674;
Proctor: Pr 4063;
Others: Oates 516; Sheppard 785; Voulliéme, Köln, 337.
LCN: 14839666
Copies
Copy number: C-210(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century half calf over marbled paper boards; bound for Kloß.
Size: 300 × 219 × 13 mm.
Size of leaf: 288 × 208 mm.
Some early ‘nota' marks in black ink. On g3v a verse (8 distichs), with heading ‘Lamentatio Marie nate Caroli ducis Burgundi', written in a fifteenth-century German hand, incipit: ‘Me Marti in insani Iouem contestor habunde', also accompanying notes. On g6r are 42 elegiac distichs written in the same(?) hand as above, entitled: ‘Ad deo dicatos wulgus quos numinis instar veneratur sacerdotes Elogium . . .', with incipit ‘Aspice quod differs aliis in veste sacerdos'.
Initials and paragraph marks are supplied in red.
Provenance: Georg Franz Burkhard Kloß (1787-1854); book-label: see sale (1835), lot 1036. Purchased for £3. 13. 6; see Books Purchased (1841), 10, listed as Rhetorica nova.
SHELFMARK: Auct. Q 2.30.
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