Leaf from Cicero, De Inventione, in Latin, humanist manuscript on parchment [Italy, c. 1450] Single leaf, with single column of 28 lines of a thin and delicate humanist hand, simple initials in red or blue, rubrics in red, a few marginal notes in main hand, prickings for lines visible in outer upright margin, some scuffs, folds and small holes, but overall in fair and presentable condition, 217 by 152mm. This is Ciceros earliest extant work, and the least likely survival of all his compositions. It sets out the art of oratory in four books (of which only the initial two exist today), and was clearly written early in his youth. It is cited by him in his De Oratore as youthful folly unworthy of his later style, and Quintilian informs us that in later life Cicero condemned the work as obsolete. The text here is from book II, chs. 41 and 42.
Leaf from Cicero, De Inventione, in Latin, humanist manuscript on parchment [Italy, c. 1450] Single leaf, with single column of 28 lines of a thin and delicate humanist hand, simple initials in red or blue, rubrics in red, a few marginal notes in main hand, prickings for lines visible in outer upright margin, some scuffs, folds and small holes, but overall in fair and presentable condition, 217 by 152mm. This is Ciceros earliest extant work, and the least likely survival of all his compositions. It sets out the art of oratory in four books (of which only the initial two exist today), and was clearly written early in his youth. It is cited by him in his De Oratore as youthful folly unworthy of his later style, and Quintilian informs us that in later life Cicero condemned the work as obsolete. The text here is from book II, chs. 41 and 42.
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