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Expedita ad eloquentiam via.

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Latin
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Penn Provenance:
  • Sold by Librairie Moothamers, 1967.
Physical Description:
112 leaves : paper ; 180 x 143 (129 x 92) mm bound to 185 x 148 mm
Production:
[France,], 1682.
Other Title:
Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via
Language Note:
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).
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
OCLC:
173848237

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