Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, MS 358: Formulary for Letter-writing
Abstract/Contents
- Summary
- CCCC MS 358 contains a fourteenth-century copy of a Formulary, a collection intended to inform clerks and notaries as to the proper form to be employed when writing letters. Because they featured material copied for its form rather than its particular content, letters within such collections are not necessarily a sound guide to the possible provenance of the manuscripts, though it should be noted that several letters in this collection are copies of letters to or from Robert, bishop of Salisbury, probably Robert Wickhampton (bishop 1271-84). The provenance of this manuscript remains unknown.
- Contents
- Dictaminis compendium -- Tractatus de coloribus rhetoricis. Letters -- Letters
Description
Alternative title | Formulae |
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Type of resource | mixed material |
Extent | ff. 4 + 117 + 2 |
Date created | [ca. 1300 - 1399] |
Language | Latin |
Material | Vellum |
Layout | 51 etc. lines to a page |
Height (mm) | 265 |
Width (mm) | 177 |
Collation | a(4) (1 lines cover) 1(12)-7(12) 8(4) (4 canc.?) 9(6) | 10(8)-12(8) | b(2) (2 lines cover). |
Writing | closely written in two main hands |
Foliation | ff. a-b + i-iv + 1-117 + v-vi + c-d |
Additions | Flyleaves at the beginning (ff. iv-ivr) from a deed of 1526 (?) with notarial mark and device Sit laus deo. Those at the end (ff. vr-viv) from a large service-book of cent. xv. |
Bibliographic information
M.R. James Date | xiv |
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Downloadable James Catalogue Record | |
Superseded Interim Catalogue Record | |
Contains |
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TJames | 318 |
Stanley | vac. |
Location | https://purl.stanford.edu/km029jy8838 |
Location | MS 358 |
Repository | UK, Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, Parker Library |
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- Use and reproduction
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Collection
Parker Manuscripts
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