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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.
Support: parchment; Extent: 168 leaves : 285 x 210 mm bound to 301 x 219 mm; 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.
Written in a Gothic cursive script by many different hands.
Contains blue and red initials throughout, some with green filigree; charts and diagrams throughout Bondi's works.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
Ms. codex.
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.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
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.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
Italy
Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
19th-century Russian calfskin over pasteboard, botanical rollstamp border, possibly German (Melk?).
Latin
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.
Italy
Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
Latin
Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk
Sold by the Stift Melk to London book dealer E. P. Goldschmidt, 1936
Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.
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.
Ms. codex.
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.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
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.
Written in a Gothic cursive script by many different hands.
Contains blue and red initials throughout, some with green filigree; charts and diagrams throughout Bondi's works.
For a full list of Decorations in this manuscript please see the Content and Decorations section by clicking on the [i] button in the top left corner of the image viewer above.
These are pages that we pulled aside that disrupted the flow of the manuscript reader. These may be bindings, inserts, bookmarks, and various other oddities.
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