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. 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.
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.
Erasure (p. 172) may be a colophon for the first text.
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.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
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.
Italy
Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
19th-century Russian calfskin over pasteboard, botanical rollstamp border, possibly German (Melk?).
Latin
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.
Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44 (1937), no. 20.
Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk (stamp, front flyleaf, p. 1, 332; note, p. 1).
Italy
Written in Italy, possibly Bologna, in the mid-14th century.
Latin
Sold by E.P. Goldschmidt, 1954.
Appears in E. P. Goldschmidt's catalog 44
Formerly in the collection of the Stiftsbibliothek, Melk
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. There is a table of contents in Latin in a much later hand on the front paper flyleaf.
Erasure (p. 172) may be a colophon for the first text.
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.
Title for manuscript from rubric of predominant work (p. 1).
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.
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.
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