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CICERO, Marcus Tullius (106-43 B.C.) De inventione. With the commentary of C. Marius Victorinus. -- pseudo-CICERO. Rhetorica ad C. Herennium. With anonymous commentary. Venice: Johannes de Gregoriis and Jacobus Britannicus, 17th July 1483. Chancery 2 o (288 x 203mm). Collation : a-h 8 i-k 6 (a1v introduction by Marius, a2r De inventione text and commentary, k6 blank); A-H 8 I-K 6 (-A1 blank, A2r Rhetorica ad Herennium text and commentary, K5r colophon, K5v quire register, -K6 blank). 150 leaves (without the blanks). Roman types 5:111 (text) and 6:83 (commentary). 57 lines of commentary surrounding varying lines of text (34 to the full page), headlines. Fine contemporary illuminated initial starting each text, other initials in alternate red and blue. (Inner margin of first leaf strengthened, signatures altered in manuscript, several initials flaked, some staining.) Contemporary German half sheep (headcap chipped, rubbed, manuscript marginalia cropped by the binder). Provenance : Augustin Kugler of Kromau, Mähren (inscription dated 1590), the manuscript notes are perhaps his -- Johannes Lysenmayr, his gift to an unidentified capitular library 28th November 1626 (inscription) -- [Sotheby's New York, 25 May 1983, lot 162] -- purchased from John F. Fleming, New York, 10 June 1983. Second edition of the commentary. De inventione is Cicero's earliest practical work on oratory; Rhetorica ad Herennium is contemporary with it, but not by him. There is a long manuscript tradition of connecting the two works. HC * 5078; GW 6737; BMC V, 339; IGI 2870; Goff C-648; Flodr 98.34.