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Epithome artis epistolaris ... [etc.].

Author/Creator:
Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
28 leaves : paper ; 203 x 145 mm bound to 212 x 157 mm
Production:
[Germany], 1512.
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Subjects:
Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares.
Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494.
Quintilian. Institutiones oratoriae.
Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536.
Zasius, Ulrich, 1461-1535.
Bebel, Heinrich, 1472-1518.
Rhetorica ad Herennium.
Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.
Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.
Rhetoric.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Annotations.
Poems.
Treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin, with words and names in Ancient Greek and Hebrew.
Biography/History:
Matriculated to the University of Freiburg im Breisgau in 1508, studied under Ulrich Zasius, and left in 1512. Also in 1512, he arrived at the university in Ingolstadt, where in 1516 he obtained the title "magister artium" and later taught rhetoric and poetry.
Summary:
Epithome artis epistolaris, the predominant work, is a treatise on rhetoric and letter writing based on authors and sources ranging from classical antiquity to the Renaissance. Rhegius draws strongly on Cicero, Quintilian, and Poliziano, but also references Aristotle, Plutarch, Pliny the Younger, Ovid, Juvenal, Terence, Vergil, Horace, Lucretius, Caesar, Livy, Augustine, passages from Psalms and Exodus, Albertus Magnus, Erasmus, Giorgio Valla, Ermolau Barbaro, Heinrich Bebel, Franciscus Niger, and Ulrich Zasius; many of these references are noted in the margins. The treatise explores the classical tenets of rhetoric, including inventio, dispositio, exordium, and elocutio; marginal annotations also make reference in Greek to various tools of rhetoric, including metaphor and periphrasis. Although the authorship of Epithome artis epistolaris was originally uncertain, it has been attributed to Urbanus Rhegius early in his career (Rhegius' name appears multiple times throughout the manuscript in both Hebrew and Roman letters: see f. 6r-v, 8v, 9r, 16v). The predominant work is preceded by an excerpt from a medieval comedic poem, several pages of which have been removed, and several brief writings concerning rhetoric and philosophy.
Contents:
1. f.1r: Pamphilus de amore.
2. f.6r: [Illegible notes in Hebrew]
3. f.6v: Modus legendi / Matteo Bosso.
4. f.6v: Distichon / Ludimontanus.
5. f.6v-8r: [Discourse on philosophy]
6. f.8v: Ornatissimis politioris litteraturae cultoribus foelicitatem / [Urbanus Rhegius]
7. f.9r-26v: Epithome artis epistolaris / [Urbanus Rhegius]
Notes:
Ms. codex.
Title from predominant work (f. 9r).
Collation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 28 + i (modern paper); 1¹⁴(-2, 3, 4, 5) 2¹⁴; modern pencil foliation, upper right recto, including the remains of the missing leaves. Link to collation model at end of record.
Layout: Ruled in drypoint.
Script: Written in a humanistic script, except work 5, written in a "hasty cursive" (Zacour-Hirsch).
Watermark: Briquet Couronne 4902 (1520); although this watermark is cited from Trevise in 1520, Briquet lists many other extant sources from throughout central and eastern Europe in the late 15th and early 16th centuries.
Decoration: Manicules in margins throughout.
Binding: Modern cloth, by Kurt Gabbel & Sons, Holland, Pa.
Origin: Written in either Ingolstadt or Freiburg im Breisgau, 1512 (f. 8r, 24r).
Penn Provenance:
Sold by Libraria Antiquaria C. E. Rappaport (Rome), 1962.
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. 17 (Ms. Latin 242).
Publications about:
Hirsch, Rudolf. "Urbanus Rhegius, the Author of an Ars Epistolaris?" Gutenberg Jarhbuch, 1969. Mainz: Gutenberg-Gesellschaft.
Martin Baños, Pedro. El arte en el Renacimiento europeo, 1400-1600. Bilbao: Universidad de Deusto, 2005.
Martin Baños, Pedro. "Preceptos epistolares e imitatio a comienzos del siglo XVI: edicion y estudio de la Epithome artis epistolaris ad formulam tullianam introducens (1512) atribuida a Urbanus Rhegius." Humanistica Lovaniesia: Journal of Neo-Latin Studies, LIV (2005).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 1156
Contains:
Bosso, Matteo, 1427 or 1428-1502.
Ludimontanus.
Pamphilus de amore.
Modus legendi.
Distichon.
Ornatissimis politioris litteraturae cultoribus foelicitatem.
OCLC:
224003623