[a2r] Georgius Trapezuntius: [Preface addressed to the reader]. ‘Georgii Trapesuntii viri doctissimi atque eloquentissimi Rhetoricorum liber primus.’ Incipit: ‘[C]um mihi in mentem venit quanta oratorie facultatis tum utilitas tum dignitas sit ...’ [a2v] Explicit: ‘... Sic n. facile speramus quicquid laboris huius rei gratia superserimus, neminem fortassis improbaturum.’ John Monfasani, George of Trebizond: A Biography and a Study of his Rhetoric and Logic, Columbia Studies in the Classical Tradition, 1 (Leiden, 1976), 370-2; see also Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 321, CXV.
[a2v] Georgius Trapezuntius: Rhetorica. Incipit: ‘[R]hetorica est civilis scientia, qua cum assensione auditorum quo ad eius fieri potest in civilibus questionibus dicimus . . .’ [t7r] Explicit: ‘... Illud maiorem in modum ab omnibus petimus, ne hoc nisi quam emendatissimum apud se opus esse patiantur. Telos.’ See Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 460, CXXXIII, no. 2.
[t7r] [Verse, naming the corrector and the printer] Benedictus Brognolus. Incipit: Que superat reliquas artes est facta Georgi | Ars bene dicendi munere nostra tuo. | Correxit Veneta rhetor Benedictus in urbe ... Explicit: ‘... Spiram, qui precii codicis auctor erit. | Coradinus. ’ Collectanea Trapezuntiana, 460.
Imprint:
Venice
Vindelinus de Spira
[not before 1472]
f°
Sheppard dates [1471/2].
Secundo folio: [a3r] que ad civitatem pertinet, oratori subiecta est. Ea est huiusmodi. Sit ne
Collation:
[a10 b–d8 e6 f–h8 i10 k–m8 n10 o–t8]. Spaces left blank for initial, with printed guide letters.
References:
Source: Bodleian; Venezia N
ISTC: ig00157000
GW 10664;
HC 7608;
Goff G‑157;
BMC V 164;
Pr 4057;
Essling 118; Oates 1621; Rhodes 821; Sheppard 3223.
LCN: 14875864
Copies:
G-072(1)
Copy
Wanting the blank leaf [t8].
Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter calf.
Size: 338 × 242 × 36 mm.
Size of leaf: 332 × 230 mm.
On [t7v] an eighteenth/nineteenth-century list of 43 books belonging to the library of the Dominican convent of S. Maria at Legnago, dated 1650, and consisting mainly of biblical commentaries and the works of S. Thomas Aquinas. Frequent early marginal annotations, many in red ink, and mostly consisting of key words, also corrections to the text, some supplementary material, pointing hands, and ‘nota' marks. On [a1v] in a sixteenth-century hand, ‘Athanatos i mors, inde Athanasius i immortalis'.
Rubric title on [c6r] is supplied in red ink; some running book numbers are supplied in red or black ink.
Provenance: Master Johannes de Liniaco [i.e. Legnago, Verona] (fifteenth century); inscription on [a1r]: ‘Magistri Johannis de Liniaco'.
Legnago, Verona, Dominicans, S. Maria Gratiarum, 1650 [now the parish church of S. Petrus]; list of books (see above).
John Mordaunt Johnson (1776?-1815); sale (1817), lot 146; Heber's note on the front endleaf: ‘June 1817 Johnson's sale by Evans. 17.6'.
Richard Heber (1773-1833); purchased 1817 (see above); see Catalogue, 3 (1834), lot 3510.
J. T. Hand (fl. 1834-1837), 1835; signature on the front endleaf dated 1835; purchased at his sale (1837), lot 204, for £0. 3. 0; see Books Purchased (1837), 38.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.31.
