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Rhetorica
- Title
- Rhetorica [microform], 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.
- Author
- Porée, Charles, 1675-1741.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76 [Manuscript] | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person. | Text | Restricted use | *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a [Microfilm] | Schwarzman Building - Rare Book Collection Room 328 |
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- Description
- 1 ill.; 24 cm.
- Summary
- Bound volume containing manuscript, in a contemporary hand, of a course on rhetoric taught by Porée at the Collège Louis-le-Grand, Paris, where Voltaire was a student 1704-1711.
- Alternative Title
- Ars rhetorica
- Eloquentia.
- Subjects
- Genre/Form
- Class notes – France – 18th century.
- Note
- Title supplied in ms. on blank portion of engraved t.p. form bearing imprint: A Paris : Chez Vallet graveur du roy, ruë St. Jacques au buste de Louis 14, 1713.
- "Finis totius Rhetoricae datae á Reuerendissimo Patre Poree ... 1715. Robert"--P. 164. Signature "Robert" also on recto of free back endpaper.
- "[Ars] rhetoricae. De eloquentiâ. Appendix, quid eloquentiam Gallicam inter et Latinam sit discriminis": p. 165-167. "De pace ... De Augusto ...": p. 168-169.
- Volume also contains full-page etching (bust of Cicero with legend beginning "Marc-Tulle Ciceron, romain tres eloquent ..."; signed "Chez H. Bonnart, au Coq"), bound following p. 94, and ca. 24 blank leaves, chiefly at end.
- Binding: Contemporary calf, gilt. Binder's title: Ars rhetor.
- Reproduction (note)
- Microfilm.
- Location of Other Archival Materials (note)
- Bibliothèque Mazarine, Stanford Univ. Libraries
- Biography (note)
- French Jesuit rhetorician and dramatist; born Vendes (Calvados), Sept. 4, 1675; died Paris, Jan. 11, 1741; named professor of rhetoric at Louis-le-Grand in 1708 and continued to teach there until his death. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, VI, col. 1021-1033.
- Provenance (note)
- Martin J. Gross Collection.
- Call Number
- *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a
- OCLC
- NYPW02-A45
- Author
- Porée, Charles, 1675-1741.
- Title
- Rhetorica [microform], 1715 / data a Carolo Poreo Societ. Jesu anno Domini millesimo septingentesimo decimo quinto.
- Reproduction
- Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 2002. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.Microfilm. New York, N.Y. : New York Public Library, 2002. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. (MN: *ZZ-37993)
- Provenance
- Martin J. Gross Collection.
- Biography
- French Jesuit rhetorician and dramatist; born Vendes (Calvados), Sept. 4, 1675; died Paris, Jan. 11, 1741; named professor of rhetoric at Louis-le-Grand in 1708 and continued to teach there until his death. Cf. Backer-Sommervogel, VI, col. 1021-1033. Voltaire studied rhetoric under Porée in 1709-1710, and remained in contact with him long afterward. "Son plus grand mérite fut de faire aimer les lettres et la vertu à ses disciples"--Voltaire, in his catalog of writers of the age of Louis XIV (in Le siècle de Louis XIV, first published 1751).
- Location of Other Archival Materials
- Other mss. of Porée's course in rhetoric are in the Bibliothèque Mazarine, Paris, France (dated 1738; cf. Backer-Sommervogel, col. 1030-1031) and Stanford Univ. Libraries, Stanford, CA (in a compendium dated 1752-1753; cf. RLIN CSUR90-A20).
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- Added Author
- Robert, active 1715. TranscriberVallet, Jérôme, 1667-approximately 1722. Printer of platesBonnart, Henri, 1642-1711. Printer of platesMartin J. Gross Collection.
- Running Title
- Ars rhetorica
- Added Title
- Eloquentia.
- Research Call Number
- *KGV (Voltaire) 02-76a [Microfilm]*KGV (Voltaire) 02-76 [Manuscript]