Ars dictandi

Description

Title: Ars dictandi
Published / Created: 1448.
Publication Place: Southern France
Abstract: Manuscript on paper of epistolary forms extracted from an unidentified Aurea gemma de arte dictandi
Description: In Latin.
Watermarks, in gutter: unidentified bull's head.
Script: Written in hasty batarde script by a single scribe.
Crude initials, 3- to 2- line, headings, underlining, paragraph marks, in red.
Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Semi-limp vellum case made from French document, with only dorse visible.
Provenance: Purchased from Bernard M. Rosenthal at an unknown date by Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. ii + 19 + ii : 225 x 155 (152 x 103) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval France 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Education, Humanistic
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval
Rhetoric
Subjects: Education, Humanistic
Latin letters, Medieval and modern
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Rhetoric > Early works to 1800
France > 15th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Ars Dictandi. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.