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Add MS 16984
- Record Id:
- 032-002094779
- Hierarchy Root Ancestor Record Id:
- 032-002094779
- MDARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100000000044.0x000150
- LARK:
- ark:/81055/vdc_100055978736.0x000001
- SLARK:
- Format:
- ISAD(G)
- Reference (shelfmark):
- Add MS 16984
- Title:
- Cicero, De Inventione; Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium
- Scope & Content:
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Contents:
This 12th-century manuscript consists of two treatises dedicated to the art of rhetoric. Although they were composed by different authors, the two rhetorical works are closely related. The De Inventione (On Invention) was written by Cicero in his youth; the Rhetorica ad Herennium (Rhetoric for Herennius) is anonymous, though it was attributed to Cicero during the Middle Ages and the early modern period. These texts are often linked together in manuscripts. Here there is no interruption between the end of the De Inventione and the Ad Herennium. The rubric shows that the Ad Herennium is considered as the third book of the De Inventione (f. 59r): 'Incipit tercius'.
ff. 3r-59r: Cicero, De inventione, Book 1 (ff. 3r-27v), beginning: 'Sepe et multum hoc mecum cogitavi'; Book 2 (ff. 27v-59r), beginning: 'Crotoniatae quondam cum florerent omnibus copiis et in Italia cum primis beati numerarentur', ending: 'et hic liber non parum continet litterarum que restant in reliquis dicemus'.
ff. 59r-112v: Pseudo-Cicero, Rhetorica ad Herennium, Book 1 (ff. 59r-66r), beginning: 'Etsi negociis familiaribus impediti, vix satis ocium suppeditare possumus'; Book 2 (ff. 66r-78v), beginning: 'De tertio genere cause, id est de iudicali. In primo libro Herenni breviter exposuimus'; Book 3 (ff. 79r-89r), beginning: 'Ad omnem iudicialem causam quemadmodum conveniret iventionem rerum accomodari'; Book 4 (ff. 89r-112v), beginning: 'Quoniam in hoc libro Herenni de elocutione conscripsimus', ending: 'Hec Omnia adipiscemur si rationes perceptionis diligentia consequemur et exercitatione. Marci Tullii Ciceronis ad Herennium explicit'.
Decoration:
A tinted drawing of Cicero seated, holding a scroll with the opening words: 'Marci Tulii liber primus incipit' and a large framed initial consisting of a twisted dragon in red, blue and light brown on a dark red ground (f. 3r). Large interlace initials in red, blue and yellow with zoomorphic and foliate decoration (ff. 4v, 27v, 59r, 89r).Initials with penwork decoration in red, blue and yellow wash. Small initials in red and blue. Rubrics in red. Paraphs in black. Initials highlighted in red.
- Collection Area:
- Western Manuscripts
- Project / Collection:
- Additional Manuscripts
England and France 700-1200 Project - Hierarchy Tree:
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- Hierarchy Record Ids:
- 032-002094779
- Is part of:
- not applicable
- Hierarchy:
- 032-002094779
- Container:
- not applicable
- Record Type (Level):
- Fonds
- Extent:
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A parchment codex
- Digitised Content:
- https://iiif.bl.uk/uv/#?manifest=https://bl.digirati.io/iiif/ark:/81055/vdc_100055978736.0x000001
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- Languages:
- Latin
- Scripts:
- Latin
- Start Date:
- 1175
- End Date:
- 1199
- Date Range:
- 4th quarter of the 12th century
- Era:
- CE
- Access:
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- Physical Characteristics:
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Materials: Parchment.
Dimensions: 235 x 165 mm (text space: 165 x 90 mm).
Foliation: ff. 114 (+ 2 unfoliated paper flyleaves at the beginning + at the end); ff. 1-2; 113-114 are former late medieval pastedowns and flyleaves.
Script: Protogothic.
Binding: Post-1600. Brown leather.
- Custodial History:
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Origin: Northern France or Southern Netherlands
Provenance:
Numerous erased annotations throughout the text.
Added, 15th-century parchment flyleaves at the beginning and at the end containing an extract from Alexander of Villa Dei, Doctrinale (ff. 1r-2r and f. 113r) and a table with Roman numerals for finding the Easter dates (f. 114r); a slightly later scribe has written the years from 1414 to 1423 in this table; an ownership inscription might have been erased (f. 113r).
Added, 16th-century and 17th-century notes related to the Doctrinale of Alexander Villa Dei (ff. 113r-v, 114r).
Added, 16th-century notes written by one person throughout the text (e. g., ff. 14v, 30v).
Added, an early modern pressmark 'No 8' (f. 2r).
Added, 16th-century Greek inscription 'Take the time' (f. 1v).
Purchased by the British Museum from Payne and Foss, London booksellers, on 12 June 1847 (f. [ii] recto) with 11 other manuscripts for £350.
- Information About Copies:
- Full digital coverage available for this manuscript: see Digitised Manuscripts at http://www.bl.uk.manuscripts/.
- Publications:
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Catalogue of Additions to the Manuscripts in the British Museum in the Years 1846-1847 (London: British Museum, 1882), p. 338.
Romuald Mattmann, Studie zur handschriftlichen Überlieferung von Ciceros "De inventione" : die Schweizer Handschriften mit "Die inventione" in Verhältnis zu den ältesten Codices (Freiburg: Universität Freiburg Schweiz, 1975), p. 178.
- Material Type:
- Archives and Manuscripts
- Legal Status:
- Not Public Record(s)
- Notes:
- This manuscript is part of The Polonsky Foundation England and France Project: Manuscripts from the British Library and the Bibliothèque nationale de France, 700-1200.