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tic00686500

Text-inc Id:
tic00686500
Bod-inc Id:
C-221
Headings:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius Rhetorica ad C. Herennium [Italian] Rhetorica nova.
Analysis of content:
  1. a2r Guidotto Da Bologna: [Life of Cicero.] Incipit: ‘Comincia la elegantissima doctrina delo excelentissimo Marco Tullio Cicerone chiamata rethorica noua traslatata di latino in uunlgare(!) per lo eximio Maestro Galeoto da Bologna opera utilisima et necessaria a gli omeni uulgarime indocti. [N]el tempo che signorigiaua il grande et gentile homo . . .’
  2. a3r Guidotto Da Bologna: ‘Prologo'. Incipit: ‘Perche la uita e breue e larte lunga . . .’
  3. a3r Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium [Italian]. Translated by Guidotto da Bologna, named ‘Galeotto da Bologna' in the heading on a2r. Incipit: ‘Colloro che uogliano sapere ornatamente e piaceuolmente fauellare . . .’ Il Fiore di rettorica di frate Guidotto da Bologna, ed. Bartolommeo Gamba (Venice, 1821 and Milan, 1824).
Imprint:
[Venice: Nel Beretin Convento della Ca Grande, c.1475]. 4°. As dated by GW; Hillard dates [c.1472-8], Sheppard [1478?].
Collation:
a–e10 f8. Type: 109 (104) R (Haebler 1*) with a hyphen, which is apparently not used elsewhere.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: ic00686500 GW 11841 (Anm. 2); H [not C] 5091?; R 876; not in Pr; Hillard 636; Sheppard 3512. LCN: 14841545
Copies:
  1. C-221(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves a1 and f8. The numbers of the signatures of gathering a have been added at a later stage, replacing earlier numbers. Binding: Parchment; dark green-edged leaves. Size: 200 × 144 × 16 mm. Size of leaf: 195 × 135 mm. Provenance: Faded annotations, possibly ownership inscriptions, on a2r. John Crichton-Stuart (1933-1993), 6th Marquis of Bute; sale (London: Sotheby's, 16 Oct. 1961), lot 808. Purchased in 1963, through Quaritch; see note on pastedown [by D. M. Rogers] and ‘Notable Accessions: Printed Books', BLR 7,2 (1963), 109-10. SHELFMARK: Inc. e. I4.7.