Bod-Inc: C-219
Cicero, Marcus Tullius
Rhetorica ad C. Herennium, et al.
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.] ‘M. T. C. Rhetoricorum libri cum tribus commentariis.’
a1v Maturantius (Mataratius) Perusinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Moretus Brixiensis. Incipit: ‘[I]n aequo beatitudinis gradu in quadam ad Tacitum . . .’
a1v Maturantius (Mataratius) Perusinus, Franciscus: [Letter addressed to] Antonius Moretus Brixiensis. Incipit: ‘[M]isi ad te epistolam quam addas . . .’
a2r Mancinellus, Antonius: ‘Rhetoricen ad Herennium esse Ciceronis'. [Introductory letter, addressed to] Hieronymus Omphredi Justinianus. Incipit: ‘[A] quo uerba in ordinem primum redacta, vbinam primus orator . . .’
a2v ‘Tituli uoluminis primi'.
a3r Maturantius (Mataratius) Perusinus, Franciscus: [Commentary on Rhetorica ad Herennium.] Incipit: ‘ “[E]tsi negociis familiaribus”. Titulus est Marci Tullii Ciceronis ad Herennium . . .’
a3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. ‘Rhetorices novae liber primus [–quartus]'. Rhet. Her.
a3r Mancinellus, Antonius: [Commentary on Rhetorica ad Herennium, addressed to] Hieronymus Omphredi Justinianus. Incipit: ‘ “[E]tsi negociis familiaribus impediti”. Primum beniuolentiam captat a persona sua . . .’ The distinction between the two commentaries is not maintained after f4r.
s6v Victorinus, Gaius Marius Fabius: [Commentary on De inventione.] See C‑208.
t1r Cicero, Marcus Tullius: De inventione. ‘Rhetorices ueteris liber primus [–secundus]'. Cic. Inv.
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: Philippus Pincius, 8 July 1496. Folio.
Collation
Collation: a–z6 &6 A6 B C8.
References
ISTC: ic00683000
GW: GW 6730;
Hain: HC *5083 = H 5082;
Goff: Goff C‑683;
Proctor: Pr 5313;
Others: BSB‑Ink A‑823; Rhodes 589; Sheppard 4402.
LCN: 14886080
Copies
Copy number: C-219(1)
Bound with:
1. Omnibonus Leonicenus, Commentum in Ciceronis Oratorem. Vicenza: [Johannes de Reno?], 22 Dec. 1476 (L‑089); see also C‑233(2) for three leaves of Pr 4705, one bound before, and two after, this item. A pencil note on the verso of the second leaf of Pr 4705 (bound after Leonicenus) shows that a fragment of Cicero, Orator. De fato. Topica. Timaeus. [Bod-inc. C‑237 = Pr 5035] was also formerly bound in this volume: ‘Fragmentary dupl. of Auct. P infra II.9 taken out'; this fragment has not been located.
Wanting the blank leaf C8.
Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf, for the Bodleian Library; the gold stamp of the Library on both covers. Spine damaged; the upper cover loose.
Size: 299 × 215 × 48 mm.
Size of leaf: 285 × 191 mm.
Sixteenth- and seventeenth-century(?) marginal notes, some cropped, mainly extracting key words and correcting the text.
Provenance: Oliviero Arzignano (fl. 1487); signature on a1r: ‘Olivarius Arsignanensis'. Item 1 acquired by 1605; see James, Catalogus (1605), 342, shelfmark L. 1.5. [Art.]; item 2 not found; item 1 is probably the copy mentioned in the Benefactors' Register I 32, given by Edward James (?1570-1617) in 1601: ‘Omnibonus Leonicenus in Cic. de Oratore cum Georgii Vallae et Fabii Victorii Com. in alios lib. Ciceronis. fo. Vicent. 1476'; the two items were certainly not together from early times: a1r shows clear signs of having been a first leaf; the items were certainly together when they had the shelfmark CC 18 Art.: 18 written across the fore-edge.
SHELFMARK: Auct. N 2.3(2).
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