Letter writing -- Handbooks, manuals, etc

Scope and Contents This section of the manuscript is headed Flores Dictaminis Petri de Vineis et primo de querimonia Frederici Rubrica and contains the Flores dictaminis by Pietro delle Vigne, also found under the name Summa dictaminis or Ars dictaminis. It is an 'anthology' divided in six books, which contain: the controversial correspondence between Frederic II against the...

Scope and Contents This is a printed copy entitled Formule Epistolarum domini Karoli, a letter-writing manual written by Karolus Mennicken. It is a quarto, printed at Strasbourg in 1490 by Johann Reinhard of Grüningeng. There are Manuscript notes on the title page and on the last page, f. 127r.Due to the fact that it is a printed text, it has been catalogued on Discovered under the shelfmark MS.210/2; ...

Scope and Contents Seventeenth century manuscript notebook with faux-title page:"Tachy graphy, or Shortwriting. Being most Easie, Exact, Speedie, and Lineal. To which is Added Symbolical Characters, and Choice Sentences. Newly Corrected, and Enlarged by Robert Henderson, Philomath."The main text is made up of both prose and tables of symbols, in a 17th-century hand. 34 unnumbered leaves are devoted to this work, finishing with a short excerpt of the Lord's Prayer, the Creed, and the Ten...

Scope and Contents This section contains a printed copy of several treatises entitled Rethorica Poncij; Copia latinitatis; Epistole Bruti & Cratis; De arte notariatus, by Pontius Provincialis. These are manuals of Latin grammar, of rhetoric, and of letter-writing. Quarto printed by Johann Reinhard of Grüningen in 1486. Rethorica Poncij: starts on f. 128r...