Rhetorica /#c a Reverendo Patre Gueret data annis 1754 & 1755 Rothomagi in aulâ Collegii Societatis Jesu.
Published: 1755
Language: lat
Number of pages: 320
Subjects: Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; French language -- Rhetoric -- Early works to 1800.; Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern) -- Washington (D.C.)
Genres: Early works to 1800.
Notes: Mostly Latin; some rhetorical examples in French.
Ms.
Lectures taken down from dictation, then possibly recopied from draft.
Text begins on prelim. p. [4]: Omissis illis longioribus praefationibus quae vulgo adhiberi solent de Rhetoricae laudibus ... statim ad rem veniamus.
On p. [327], at end of "index" (i.e. list of contents), caption "Carmina sequuntur a Patre Gueret dicta" introduces a collection of Latin poetry by various authors (many by Gueret himself?), ending on p. [368]
T.p. in red and black, in print-like lettering, with the words "Rothomagi ... Jesu" in quasi imprint position.
Text written all in one modern cursive hand, 22-24 lines per page, on paper with chainlines vertical; probably in Rouen.
Table of contents: value: Liber I, De elocutione oratoria; value: Liber II, De inventione; value: Liber III, De dispositione; value: Liber IV, De triplici causarum genere; value: Carmina.