Geoffrey de Vinsauf, De arte verificandi; Thomas Merke, De moderno dictamine (DS17795) (Q73078)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Newberry Library (998741038805867, VAULT Case MS 55, https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998741038805867)
- Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi
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| English | Geoffrey de Vinsauf, De arte verificandi; Thomas Merke, De moderno dictamine (DS17795) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Newberry Library (998741038805867, VAULT Case MS 55, https://i-share-nby.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/permalink/01CARLI_NBY/i5mcb2/alma998741038805867) |
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Geoffrey de Vinsauf, De arte verificandi; Thomas Merke, De moderno dictamine
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Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi
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Geoffrey, of Vinsauf, active 1200
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Rhetoric, Medieval--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Latin (Medieval and modern)
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between 1425 and 1475
15. century
1425Gregorian
1475Gregorian
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Extent: 107 leaves : parchment ; 159 x 98 (116 x 55) mm
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Manuscript codex.
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Title from printed catalog.
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Collation: Parchment, fol. 107; 1-712 86 912 106(-6); trace of old signatures gu-qv indicated that six initial quires of the manuscript are missing and that one quire from the first text lacking at an early date; horizonal catchwords, beginning with quire b within double rectangles.
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Layout: Written in 27 long lines; ruled in lead point, double boundary lines in brown crayon for first text, single boundary lines for second text.
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Script: Written in secretary cursica media by two hands; first hand shows chancery influences; the second hand is more current.
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Decoration: Blue initials with red flourishes throughout; fol. 1r: flourished extended to form an outer and upper bracket border; fol. 1-24, names of authorities underlined in red; red touched used as punctuation.
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Origin: Written in England in the middle of the 15th century.
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Former owner's inscription fol. 100v: Nota hic de occisione Magistri Walter Daychs.
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A few secretary and anglicana marginal notes, 15th century.
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In 1879, Mrs. James F. Watermann of Sycamore, Illinois, presented this codex to the Chicago Historical Society, her signature and inscription commemorating her gift on the third front flyleaf.
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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