Expedita ad eloquentiam via

Alternate Title:

Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via

Contributor:

Petrus, de Boussac (scribe)

Name:

Renatus, de Seillons

Date:

1682

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Sold by Librairie Moothamers, 1967.

Subject:

Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Rhetoric -- Philosophy; Oratory

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices; Treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, European; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

112 leaves : paper; 180 x 143 (129 x 92) mm bound to 185 x 148 mm

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title from title page; Zacour and Hirsch use the caption heading Tractatus rhetoricae seu Expedita ad eloquentiam via (p.1).; Table of contents: 1. p.2-42: Ad rhetoricam praeludia.; Table of contents: 2. p.42-98: Liber primus de elocutione.; Table of contents: 3. p.98-127: Liber secundus de inventione.; Table of contents: 4. p.127-179: Liber tertius rhetorices de supositione.; Table of contents: 5. p.179-193: Liber quartus de memoria et pronuntiatione.; Table of contents: 6. p.194-219: Tractatus secundus liber.; 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).; Latin.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1069