Collection ID: 0053 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Authors

• Ceolfrid, of Wearmouth, Saint, 642-716, author.

Other related names

• Kloss, Georg Franz Burkhard, 1787-1854, former owner., former owner
• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner., former owner
• Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner., former owner

Call number

Alternate identifiers

• https://hamnet.folger.edu/cgi-bin/Pwebrecon.cgi?BBID=224780

Publisher

Language

Origin

Place

Unknown

Summary

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.

Notes

• Folger card catalog title: Regula ... ad modum orandi pulchre ornateque loquendi
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• Illegible ownership mark on leaf 8v: "roan dassalbry?"
   

Extent

Collation

Support

Binding

Layout

Decoration

None (initial first letter on leaf 1r is unfinished).

Script

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Georgius Kloss M.D. Francofurti ad Moenum [Frankfort am Main] (bookplate); Thomas Phillipps. Acquired by Henry Clay Folger.
   

Related resources

• Phillipps, T. Phillipps manuscripts, 9693

Subjects topical

• Bede, the Venerable, Saint, 673-735. Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum
• Nechtan mac Derile, King of the Picts, -732 --Correspondence --Manuscripts
• Ceolfrid, of Wearmouth, Saint, 642-716 --Correspondence --Manuscripts
• Rhetoric --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Easter --Early works to 1800 --Manuscripts
• Nechtan mac Derile, King of the Picts, -732, associated name

Genres

• Manuscripts, Latin --15th century

Keywords

• 15th century
• Treatise
• Church Fathers
• History

Licenses

• Text

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• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — [Elegantiolae (partial)]; incipit: [C]um neque quempiam ad artem dicendi ullam peruenire posse ... [f. 1r]; explicit: ... ut quum duo nomina alterum adjectiuum alterum ... [f. 4r]
• fol. 5r — Prefatio epistole; incipit: Domino excellentissimo et gloriosissimo regi Niaitano Cealfrid abbas in Domino salutem. Catholicam sancti pasche observanciam ... [f. 5r]; explicit: ... ipsos uobis circulos pasche katholicos habundere probastis. [f. 8r]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Georgius Kloss, M.D., Francofurti ad Moenum