On the art of speaking ... [etc.]

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Date

ca. 1450

Location

No place, unknown, or undetermined

Media format

Manuscript text

Extent

8 leaves

Language

Latin

Size

205 x 135 mm

Reference IDs

Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts: 9693
Folger bibliographic ID: 224780
Folger call number: V.a.167
Folger holdings ID: 256408
Accession Number: cs506

Summary

Contains a treatise on the art of rhetoric, followed by Abbot Ceolfrith's letter on the computation of Easter to King Nechtan excerpted from Bede's Ecclesiastical history

Notes

General notes

Manuscript codex In Latin Title supplied by cataloger Collation: Leaves 8; 1⁸ Layout: Written in 35 long lines (dimensions of written space: 160 x 90 mm); many marginal notes on leaves 5r-8r Script: Written in a Northern Humanistic script, with Italian influences, possibly from the Low countries Decoration: None (initial first letter on leaf 1r is unfinished) Binding: 19th century brown marble paper boards Origin: Unknown, ca. 1450 Georgius Kloss M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfort am Main] (bookplate) -- Phillipps Illegible ownership mark on leaf 8v: "roan dassalbry?" Former shelfmark: Folger MS 506 Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.167

1. leaves 1r-4r: "[rubr.] [S]equuntur regule pulchre sequentes ad modum orandi pulchre ornateque loquendi. [text] [...] neque quempiam ad artem dicendi ullam peruenire posse ..." 2. leaves 5r-8r: "[rubr.] prefatio epistole. [text] Domino excellentissimo et glorissimo regi Niaitano Cealfrid abbas in Domino salutem. Catholicam sancti pasche observanciam ... ipsos uobis circulos pasc[h]e katho[li]cos habundere probast[is]." (Migne, Patrologia Latina 95: 271C-277C)

Also known as

Extended title: On the art of speaking ... [etc.] ca. 1450
Alternate titles: Regula ... ad modum orandi pulchre ornateque loquendi

Subjects

Rhetoric Nechtan mac Derile, King of the Picts, -732 Easter Ceolfrid, of Wearmouth, Saint, 642-716

Related names

subject: Nechtan mac Derile, King of the Picts, -732
subject: Ceolfrid, of Wearmouth, Saint, 642-716
correspondent: Nechtan mac Derile, King of the Picts, -732
former owner: Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854
former owner: Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872
correspondent: Ceolfrid, of Wearmouth, Saint, 642-716