Etsi negotiis familiaribus impediti vix satis ocium studio suppeditare possiumus : manuscript, [between 1400 and 1450]

Title: Etsi negotiis familiaribus impediti vix satis ocium studio suppeditare possiumus : manuscript, [between 1400 and 1450]

Alternative Title: Rhetorica ad Herennium
Place of Origin: Italy
Language: Latin
Description: Extent: 109 leaves, bound ; 22 cm.
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Subjects: Rhetoric, Ancient--Early works to 1800
Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval-Italy-1400-1450.
Manuscripts, Renaissance-Italy-1400-1450.
Rules (layout features)
Manuscript waste.
Glosses (annotations)
Early works to 1800
Notes: Title from incipit.
Often ascribed to Cornificius, but occasionally attributed to Cicero, or pseudo-Cicero.
Designated as no. 33 in Girolamo Lagomarsini's collation of the text, and inscribed by him (f. 1r): "Hic codex a me Hieronymo Lagomarsino a Societate Jesu cum vulgatis diligenter collatus in mea rhetoricorum Ciceronis operum editione; numero 33 designabitur. Florentie, 21 Octobri 1740."
Written in northeastern Italy, probably in Venice, in a gothic bookhand.
Probably circulated with MS Lat 175.
Bound in pasteboard covered with a vellum leaf from an antiphonal, stained dark green.
In a tray case, 24 cm.
MS Lat 174. Houghton Library, Harvard University.
Series: Digital Medieval Manuscripts at Houghton Library
Repository: Houghton Library, Harvard University

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