Epithome artis epistolaris ... [etc.]

Name:

Rhegius, Urbanus, 1489-1541; Bosso, Matteo, 1427 or 1428-1502; Ludimontanus

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1512

Description:

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.

Language:

Latin; Greek, Ancient (to 1453); Hebrew

Provenance:

Sold by Libraria Antiquaria C. E. Rappaport (Rome), 1962.

Relation:

Collation model: http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/44

Subject:

Cicero, Marcus Tullius. Epistolae ad familiares; Poliziano, Angelo, 1454-1494; Quintilian. Institutiones oratoriae; Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536; Zasius, Ulrich, 1461-1535; Bebel, Heinrich, 1472-1518; Rhetoric -- Study and teaching; Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800; Rhetoric

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

manuscripts (documents); codices (bound manuscripts); annotations; poems; treatises; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance

Physical Description:

28 leaves : paper; 203 x 145 mm bound to 212 x 157 mm

Rights:

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

Notes:

Ms. codex.; 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.; Title from predominant work (f. 9r).; Table of contents: 1. f.1r: Pamphilus de amore.; Table of contents: 2. f.6r: [Illegible notes in Hebrew]; Table of contents: 3. f.6v: Modus legendi / Matteo Bosso.; Table of contents: 4. f.6v: Distichon / Ludimontanus.; Table of contents: 5. f.6v-8r: [Discourse on philosophy]; Table of contents: 6. f.8v: Ornatissimis politioris litteraturae cultoribus foelicitatem / [Urbanus Rhegius]; Table of contents: 7. f.9r-26v: Epithome artis epistolaris / [Urbanus Rhegius]; 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).; Latin, with words and names in Ancient Greek and Hebrew.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 1156