Details

Other Title:

Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via

Subjects:

Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Rhetoric -- Philosophy.
Oratory.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, European.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Handbook for the study of rhetoric, typical of the curricula of the Jesuit colleges in France during the 17th century. It draws on classical sources to lay out, in a systematic way, the five parts of rhetoric: inventio, dispositio, elocutio, memoria, and actio.

Contents:

1. p.2-42: Ad rhetoricam praeludia.
2. p.42-98: Liber primus de elocutione.
3. p.98-127: Liber secundus de inventione.
4. p.127-179: Liber tertius rhetorices de supositione.
5. p.179-193: Liber quartus de memoria et pronuntiatione.
6. p.194-219: Tractatus secundus liber.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title from title page; Zacour and Hirsch use the caption heading Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via (p.1).
Collation: Paper, i + 111; 1⁸ ( -1, 2, 3) 2-8⁸ 9⁶ 10-14⁸ 15⁸( -6, 7, 8); [ii] 1-123 123-221; contemporary pagination in ink, upper outer corners.
Layout: Written in widely varying number of lines per page; framed with embossed margins.
Script: Written in an italic script.
Watermark: Partial watermarks appear to be 17th-century derivations of watermarks like Briquet Couronne 5091 (1424) and Briquet Lettres assemblees 9479 (1556).
Binding: Contemporary parchment.
Origin: Written in France in 1682 (p. 220).

Penn Provenance:

Sold by Librairie Moothamers, 1967.

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800, Supplement A (1) . The Library Chronicle 35 (1969), p. 12 (Ms. Latin 228).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1069

Contributor:

Petrus, de Boussac, scribe.

OCLC:

173848237