Live veiling - Lot 871
[Italy - Venice]
De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus [comm. C. Marius Vicotinus] [And] Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium cum commento.
Venice, B. de Tortis, 31 October 1483
€ 2.000 / 2.500
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Beschrijving lot
Folio: [130] ff., 63-64 ll. (delicately washed, small ink stain on two ff., small perforations). Good copy.
Mod. blind-stamped half pigskin over wood, spine on raised bands with title and blind decoration (original flyleaves preserved with only dampstaining and soiling).
Collection of rhetorical works, including the "Rhetorica ad Herennium" formerly attributed to Cicero, with extensive commentary surrounding the text by the Roman grammarian and Neoplatonic philosopher Gaius Marius Victorinus, and by Battista Guarini for the Herennius (according the Bodleian catalog). Ref. ISTC ic00649000. - GW 6738. - Goff C:649. - Polain 4097. - BMC V:323. - BSB-Ink C:305. - Not in CIBN. Prov. Cont. ms. notes. - [Georges Petit].