Index rhetoricus scholis & institutioni tenerioris Ætatis accommodatus. cui adjiciuntur formulÆ oratoriÆ. Operâ & studio ThomÆ Farnabii.
Farnaby, Thomas,1575?-1647.
Skinner, Thomas,1629?-1679,former owner.StEdNL
English, John,17th century,former owner.StEdNL
Londini : Impressum, à Felice Kyngstonio, impensis Roberti Allot,
1633.
First leaf is blank.
The first pagination series has even numbers on rectos.
"De formularum vsu & imitatione" begins new pagination; register is continuous.
Reproduction of the original in the British Library.
Signatures: A-H¹² I⁶.
STC (2nd ed.)
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Manuscript inscription on front flyleaf "Thomas Skinner est meus herus" with a Latin couplet below. Manuscript list of rhetorical terms on the second front flyleaf (which is a fragment of a leaf) "Metaphora Metenymia Allegoria Epizeuxis Anadiplosis Anaphora Epigreppe Symploce Epanalepsis Epanados Paranomasia[?] Polyptoten Paradigma Antimeta[thesis] Enantiosis Symeplosis Oxymoron Iubsco[?] Epitrope[?] Ephonesis Erotisis Epiphonema Epanorthosis Aposiopesis Aporia Apostophy Prosopopeia Paralipsis". Manuscript inscriptions on the next fly leaf "sed hic[?] nuc Tho. Skinner" and various Latin phrases, and again "Mr. Thomas Skinner manu mea". Below, in a different hand "John Inglish his booke". Again, below that "Tho: Skinner" and "my hand". Manuscript inscription on the title page "Ex Libris Mr. Th. Skinner 1.6.5.1." and in a later hand "Ex Lib. Bib Schol. Reg. Edin". Occasional notations throughout text. Tipped-in at the end is a folded fragment of a leaf containing parts of  Psalms 12 and 14 from a single column, black letter, folio edition of the Book of Common Prayer, printed by Barker, likely a 1590s edition. Manuscript inscriptions on this leaf "Mr Thomas Skinner Mequis pastoel" and "Mr Thomas Skinner", with various manuscript inscriptions on the verso as well, mainly illegible.
Rhetoric
Oratory
England London.