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Title

Ars epistolandi ... etc.

Authors

• Vecelli, Antonius de

Call number

Oversize Ms. Codex 1257
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9943971163503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/257707686
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/4397116

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin, with some Italian

Origin

Date

1414-1497

Place

Pieve de Cadore, Italy

Summary

Collection of various letters and documents, including much poetry. The poetry treats topics such as language, games and taverns, religion, and love. Also contains treatises on Latin grammar and punctuation. Includes some extracts on morality and proverbs from a variety of classical and Christian authors, including Seneca, Cicero, Augustine, and Pope Innocent I (f. 22v-27v). Many of the documents are notarized by Antonius de Vecelli (example, f. 16r). Many of the leaves are heavily damaged due to dampness.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from inside upper cover.
   

Extent

89 leaves : 230 x 210 mm. bound to 310 x 220 mm

Foliation

Paper, 89 pages; [1-89]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Modern boards (Zacour-Hirsch).

Decoration

Decorated initials, some colored in red, blue and yellow (example, f. 9r, f. 12r). Several manicules.

Script

Written in a variety of cursive scripts.

Provenance

• Appears in Bernard M. Rosenthal's catalogue 18 (1966), no. 6.
   
• Gift of Philip J. Nordell, 1966 (inside lower cover).
   

Subjects topical

• Latin language--Grammar--Early works to 1500
• Latin poetry, Medieval and modern--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Poems
• Treatises
• Notarial documents
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Document
• Legal
• Paper
• Grammar
• Literature -- Poetry

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Epistolae et supplicationes, f. 1r
• fol. 8r — Regula sive modus tenendus in examinatione testium, f. 8r
• fol. 12r — Modus et ordo tenendus, f. 12r
• fol. 16v — De punctis fiendis quin scribitur, f. 16v
• fol. 22v — Moralites sive auctoritates, f. 22v
• fol. 28r — Primum in notificando nuptias videlicet de publichatu, f. 28r
• fol. 32r — Copies of legal texts, f. 32r
• fol. 37r — Tractatus de diversis significationibus verborum, f. 37r
• fol. 53r — De verbis et versus in quibus continentur omnia deponentia, f. 53r
• fol. 65r — Grammatical treatise, f. 65r
• fol. 71r — Lectura super summam grammaticalem data per Antonium filium Ser Verceli, f. 71r
• fol. 74r — De arte metrica, f. 74r
• fol. 79v — Collection of poems, f. 79v

Decorations

• fol. 8r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Notarial signet, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial P?, f. 9r
• fol. 10v — Notarial signet, f. 10v
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 12r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 12r
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial R, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial C, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 22v
• fol. 22v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 22v
• fol. 23r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 23r
• fol. 23v — Manicule, f. 23v
• fol. 24v — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 24v
• fol. 31r — Manicule, f. 31r
• fol. 56r — Manicule, f. 56r
• fol. 57r — Manicule, f. 57r
• fol. 67v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 67v