Oratoriae artis epitoma, uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus foelici numine inchoat

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The instance Oratoriae artis epitoma, uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus foelici numine inchoat represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in College of Physicians of Philadelphia.

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Oratoriae artis epitoma, uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus foelici numine inchoat

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ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus foelici numine inchoat

Instantiates

• Oratoriae artis epitoma, uel quae breuibus ad consumatum spectant oratorem : ex antiquo rhetorum gymnasio, dicendi scribendique breues rationes : nec non et aptus optimo cuique uiro titulus : insuper et perquam facilis memoriae artis modus Iacobi Publicii Florentini lucubratione in lucem editus foelici numine inchoat

Publication

• Venice, Erhard Ratdolt, 31 January 1485

Note

• Title from incipit on leaf A2 recto (signed A)
• Imprint from colophon (leaf H10 verso), which reads: Erhardus Ratdolt Auguste[n]sis ingenio miro & arte p[er]polita impressioni mirifice dedit. 1485. pridie calen[das] Februarii. Venetiis
• Signatures: A-G€ Hl° (A1 blank)
• Chancery quarto. 32 lines; area of text: 143 x 101 mm. With ornamental woodcut initials. Without foliation and cathwords. With signatures. With 12 full leaf woodcut illustrations, and 3 smaller illustrations; volvelle on leaf H8 recto
• "The text appears to have been revised throughout in this edition. The Ars memoriae is divided into two books instead of three, with considerable changes in the text. To the cuts of the first edition (1482, IA.20522) have been added a cut of a city from Fasciculus temporum to illustrate the section "Locorum qualitas" (G5b), a cut of the Ptolemaic system at the end of the first book (G7a), a cut of a female and male figure to illustrate the section begining "Cum prima huius libelli pars" (H1b), where there is a blank space in the earlier edition, and a "tree of qualities, &c." in two parts (H9b, H10a). The last figure (a city) of the last block of the alphabet-cuts has been removed." Cf. BM 15th cent., vol. 5, p. 289

Control code

000025788

Dimensions

21 cm. (4to).

Extent

[66] leaves (first leaf blank)

Lccn

48040719

Note

• Without rubrication. Illustration on verso of leaf H1 was hand-touched.
• With early English ms. notes on recto and verso of front free endpaper; author's name and title in ms. on first leaf; some marginal notes and fists.
• Acquired by the College of Physicians of Philadelphia prior to March 28, 1917. With the bookplates of the Duke of Sussex, and William Howard, Hartley House, Devon; two booksellers' descriptions pasted on front pastedown.
• Bound in vellum over boards; author's name, title and imprint stamped on spine.
• Leaf size: 201 x 139 mm.; volvelle wanting.
• Photostat available.

Other physical details

ill.

Record ID

u25491

System control number

• (Sirsi) 25788
• 25808
• ocm03926643
• (CStRLIN)MAHGBGH55636-B