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Treatise on memory
PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION: Paper (watermark Briquet no. 3868), i modern paper flyleaf + 13 fols. + i modern paper flyleaf, 207 x 135 (160 x 103) mm, 34 – 37 long lines, ruled in black ink, quire and leaf signatures.
BINDING: nineteenth century, marbled paper over pasteboards
CONTENTS: fol. 1r List of capitula for chapters 1 – 14; fols. 1r – 13v Treatise based on Rhetorica ad Herennium, Bk III.1, Cum res ac dispositionem ac modum eas loquendi excogitavimus.
ORNAMENTATION: Blue penwork initial [Q, 7 ll.] with red pen-flourished infill and frame for list of capitula (fol. 1r); alternate blue and red penwork initials [3 ll.]; capitals highlighted in red.
History note: Dr Georg Kloss, Frankfurt-am-Main (bookplate inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 27 May 1835, lot 4564; purchased by Longman; Sir Thomas Phillipps (1792 – 1872), his MS 11728 (ownership inscription inside upper cover); his sale, Sotheby’s, London, 17 – 20 May 1897, lot 200; purchased by Tregaskis; James Stewart Henderson (d.1933); his bequest, 1933.
Method of acquisition: Bequeathed (1933) by Henderson, James Stewart
15th Century#
Production date:
circa
AD 1480
Support
composed of
paper
Text
Height 160 mm
Width 103 mm
Page
Height 207 mm
Width 135 mm
Accession number: MS 357
Primary reference Number: 169779
Project ID: 3514
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Owner or interested party:
The Fitzwilliam Museum
Associated department:
Manuscripts and Printed Books
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