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.
Language Note
In Latin.
Note
Manuscript codex. 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). Origin: Unknown, ca. 1450. Illegible ownership mark on leaf 8v: "roan dassalbry?" Shelfmark: Washington, D.C., Folger Shakespeare Library, MS V.a.167.
Contents
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).
Binding information
Bound in 19th-century brown marble paper boards.
Provenance
Formerly owned by Georgius Kloss M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfort am Main] (bookplate); Thomas Phillipps.
