Cloth boards. From the series DAVIS MEDIEVAL TEXTS & STUDIES, volume 9. "In the High Middle Ages and Renaissance letter-writing flo urished as a major form of discourse and branch of rhetoric. Hundreds of treatises and manuals on epistolary composition, formularies, and model letter collections were written. This census is the fir st systematic survey of the extant manuscripts containing these works found in part of Western Europe, Japan, and the USA. The few manuscripts with model speeches are also included. They are of a rela ted genre, secular oratory, which dveloped in the High Middle Ages. Over 1, 200 Latin manuscript references have been compiled from visits to over 250 libraries and archives. The survey is alphabetical ly arranged by country, city, library or archive and collection and gives standard details - folios, incipits, explicits, and colophons of the texts. Editions, studies, and catalogue references are pr ovided as are lists of libraries and archives without relevant manuscripts. Four indexes of manuscripts, incipits, Medieval and Renaissance authors, and select anonymous works are included. The work I s a research tool for those interested in Medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, oratory, diplomatics, learning, and Classical tradition. "; 8vo; 469 pp

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