Details

Other Title:

Ars dictandi.

Subjects:

Rhetoric, Medieval.
Rhetoric -- Study and teaching -- Middle Ages, 600-1500.
Latin language, Medieval and modern -- Rhetoric.
Latin language, Medieval and modern.
Rhetoric -- Study and teaching.

Form/Genre:

codices (bound manuscripts)
treatises.
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Medieval.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Latin.

Summary:

Text of the Summa dictaminis of Thomas de Capua. Also contains 15 shorter works on the same topic by Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia (Giovanni da Aquileia), though for some of the works the attribution to Bondi is not secure. The shorter works may have been bound with the Summa dictaminis (which has worm damage on the leaves at the end consistent with being at the end of a volume) at the time of rebinding. There is a table of contents in Latin in a much later hand on the front paper flyleaf.

Contents:

1. p.1-172: Summa dictaminis / Thomas de Capua.
2. p.173-178: Theorica, sive ars dictaminis / Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia.
3. p.180-197: Practica sive usus dictaminis / Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia.
4. p.198-211: Tractatus exoriendi.
5. p.211-212: De quibusdam usurpantibus alienum officium.
6. p.213-221: Libellus de epythetis / Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia.
7. p.222-250: Collectio florum super arte et usu dictaminis / Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia.
8. p.253-268: Exordia super diversis materiis applicanda.
9. p.268-273: Proverbia sive latina cursulata super diversis materiis.
10. p.273-280: Exordia sive proverbia cursulata per alphabetum collecta.
11. p.280-282: De proverbiis Salomonis.
12. p.283-284: Exordia curialia in diversis negociis applicanda.
13. p.285-310: Lucerna dictaminis / Johannes Bondi de Aquilegia.
14. p.310-318: Quare exornationes colores rethorici nominantur.
15. p.318: Varietates exordiorum quibus a summo pontifice audientia postulatur.
16. p.319-332: Arengae a diversis doctoribus compillatae.

Notes:

Ms. codex.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
Collation: Parchment, ii (modern paper) + 168 + ii (modern paper); 1-9⁸, 10⁸(+4), 11⁴, 12-21⁸; [1-332]; modern pagination in pencil, upper outer corners. Link to collation model at end of record.
Script: Written in a Gothic cursive script by many different hands.
Decoration: Contains blue and red initials throughout, some with green filigree; charts and diagrams throughout Bondi's works.
Binding: 19th-century Russian calfskin over pasteboard, botanical rollstamp border, possibly German (Melk?).
Origin: Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
Quires 14 (p. 205-220) and 16 (p. 237-252) are palimpsests. The lower text was written on an orientation perpendicular to the second text. The lower text appears to have been documentary in nature.

Penn Provenance:

Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk (no. D 73 in the abbey's catalog of 1517; no. F 127 in Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, Bd. I (1915); ink stamp, front flyleaf, p. 1, 332; note, p. 1).
Sold by the Stift Melk to London book dealer E. P. Goldschmidt, 1936 (manuscripta.at).
Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44 (1937), no. 20.
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.

Cited in:

Listed in Mittelalterliche Bibliothekskataloge Österreichs, Bd. I: Niederösterreich, (Vienna, 1915), p. 251 (F. 127).
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 146 (Ms. Lea 3).

Publications about:

Heller, Emmy, ed. Die Ars dictandi des Thomas von Capua (Heidelberg: C. Winter, 1929). Heller's edition was based upon a copy of this manuscript made for the Monumenta Germaniae.

Cited as:

Thomas de Capua, Summa dictaminis (Ms. Codex 20). Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, University of Pennsylvania.

Contributor:

Bondi, Johannes, de Aquilegia.
Stift Melk, former owner.

OCLC:

155959537

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