Stock, Manuscripts

Compendiarium texendae orationis artificium.

[Rhetoric].
Likely France,
ca. 1650
US$ 1,250.00
4to (140 x 185 mm). Latin manuscript in brown ink on paper. 113 (but: 108) numbered ff., with numbered ff. 114-122 left blank (ff. 12 and 35-36 apparently skipped in error and ff. 18-19 likely missing). Collation: a12 (blank first leaf, ff. 1-11), b10 (instead of b12, lacking b6-7: ff. 13[!]-24 lacking 18-19), c10 (25-34), d8 (37[!]-44), e12 (45-56), f10 (57-66), g12 (67-78), h12 (79-90), j12 (91-102), k12 (103-114), l8 (115-122). Contemporary suede leather binding. Edges sprinkled red.