Topica ... [etc.].

Format:

Book

Manuscript

Author/Creator:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius.

Contributor:

Lessi, P., artist.

Michelassi, engraver.

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Aristotle. Topics--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient--Early works to 1800.

Rhetoric, Ancient.

Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)

annotations

treatises

Manuscripts, Latin.

Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Penn Provenance:

Armorial bookplate with Florence skyline inside upper cover with motto, "Quo pulchrius lumine trino ex libris Petri Ginori Conti," artist's name P. Lessi and engraver's name Michelassi.

Collector's stamp on various pages with crown and letters "P. T."

Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's, cat. 15 (1964), no. 10; sold by Rosenthal in 1965.

Physical Description:

24 leaves : paper ; 296 x 225 (150 x 87) mm bound to 302 x 228 mm

Place of Publication:

[Italy], [between 1475 and 1499]

Language Note:

Latin.

Summary:

A treatise on rhetorical theory written for C. Trebatius Testa in 44 B.C. Cicero's work is based on the work of the same name by Aristotle. Several pages (f. 3r-5v) of annotations have been added, which come from Boethius's In Ciceronis topica. The treatise is prefaced in this codex by a letter to Trebatius (which can be found in the collection of Cicero's letters as Ad familiares 7.19) explaining Cicero's reasons for writing and instructions for reading.

Contents:

1. f.1v: Epistula ad C. Trebatium.

2. f.2r-23v: Topica.

Notes:

Ms. codex.

Title from caption heading for predominant work (f. 2r).

Collation: Paper, iii (modern paper) + 24 + iii (modern paper); 1-2²⁴; [1-24]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. Catchword, lower right verso (f. 12v). Link to collation model at end of record.

Layout: Written in 24 long lines, in red and brown ink, with marginal annotations.

Script: Written in a humanistic script.

Watermark: Briquet Couronne 4862 (1483-4).

Binding: Modern vellum.

Origin: Written in Italy in the late 15th century (Zacour-Hirsch).

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. 6 (Ms. Latin 205).

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 1122

Contains:

Boethius, -524. In Ciceronis topica.

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares. Selections

Epistula ad C. Trebatium.

OCLC:

191849688

Online:

Collation model