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Cicero, Marcus Tullius [pseudo-]: Rhetorica ad C. Herennium.

[Venice?: Printer of Datus, ‘Elegantiolae’ (H 5969*), ca. 1475]
Fol. a-f⁸ g⁶. [54] leaves.
ISTC ic00677000; Goff C677; BMC V 583; GW 6717.

The signatures are stamped in, or occasionally added in manuscript.

Shelf-mark:	Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.29 (see main library entry for this item)
Bound with:	The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound (as in many other copies) with: Cicero, Marcus Tullius, De inventione, sive Rhetorica vetus. [Venice: Filippo di Pietro], 1475.
Provenance:	Petrus Desentianus(?) -16th-century: partially erased inscription on a1r of first item in volume “Iste Liber est mei petri desent[...]”. Joannes de Peregrinis (16th/17th century): inscription on a1r of first item in volume “Joa: de Peregrinis”. Venice, Capuchins: inscription on g6v “Loci Venetiarum Capuccinorum”; the same inscription (partially erased) appears on a2r of the first item in volume. Robert Hoblyn, (1710-1756), politician: 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana' (Londini: J. Murray, 1769), p. 213; Hoblyn sale, 2 March 1778 onwards; lot 3411 in 'Bibliotheca Hoblyniana ...' (London: Baker & Leigh, 1778). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the Hoblyn sale for £1.7.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the Hoblyn sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 11 (4).
Binding:	Italy, 16th-century blind-tooled, brown goatskin over bevelled wooden boards. Covers decorated with fillets to form three frames and a centre panel; the latter has a reticulated design formed from an interlaced tool and is further decorated with a small annulus-shaped tool used singly or in groups of seven; the inner frame is decorated with a chain-like pattern formed by an interlaced dotted tool (cf. Weale, 'Bookbindings', fig. 13 (lower right), p. xviii); the middle frame is decorated with a small annulus-shaped tool used singly; the outer frame is decorated with a rope-like pattern formed by a dotted s-shaped tool, a six-petalled flower stamp and a lattice stamp. Rebacked in 19th/20th century and new flyleaves added at front and rear; original spine covering not preserved; no evidence of pastedowns. Remains of two clasps, with brass catch plates on rear board and in a corresponding position on the front board are brass rivets decorated with a star-shaped design. Manuscript title on fore-edge ‘Retorica Tulii’ running from head to tail. Size: 297 x 205 mm.
Leaf size:	290 x 203 mm.
Annotations:	Occasional marginal annotations in humanist hands, mainly extracting keywords; brief questions (“Omnes questiones”) on the Rhetorica written in a 16th-century hand on a early flyleaf inserted after g6.
Decoration:	Five-line initial “E” on a1r supplied in gold and embellished with white-vine decoration defined in blue, purple and green with a pattern of white dots, which extends into the inner and upper margins (two initials in the first item in the volume are by the same illuminator); other initials supplied throughout in red or blue, with evidence of guide-letters in brown ink.
Imperfections:	None.

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