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...

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A treatise on rhetoric by the celebrated Mullā Sa'd al-Dīn Mas'ūd b. 'Umar, commonly known "al-Taftāzānī " (d. 791 or 792 A.H., 1388 or 1389 C.E.).

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This is a commentary upon the Badi'iyyah of 'Alī Ṣadr al-Dīn al-Madanī b. Aḥmad Niẓam al-Dīn al-Ḥusaynī al-Ḥasanī by the author himself, who wrote it in India in 1077 A.H. (1666 C.E.).

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...

Scope and Contents This section contains a printed copy of the Tractus de arte loquendi and tacendi ('Treatise on the art of talking and being silent'), written by Albertano de Brescia in 1245. It is a text dedicated to his son, in which de Brescia gives advice on how and when to speak. He explains when and to whom he should be speaking, and of which subjects. He also comments about delivery and style, and gives templates for different kinds of documents: laws, letters,...