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Description: | The Catholicon, written by the Dominican Johannes Balbus (d. 1298) of Genoa, is a long treatise for the study of Latin, divided into five parts: orthography, prosody, grammar, rhetoric, and etymology. This copy was owned by the Augustinian priory at Stone in Staffordshire (half-way between Stoke-on-Trent and Stafford).
The opening page is adorned with a full border, historiated and illuminated initials. The heading is written in red and black in a decorative chequered pattern. The historiated initial shows the author writing the text; just visible are his ink-pot, at the left edge of his writing-desk, and a blue weight hanging on a cord over the edge of the desk. | License: | http://www.bl.uk/services/copy/permission.html | Rights holder: | British Library | Source: | Collect Britain | Identifier: | http://www.collectbritain.co.uk/personal... | Language: | en-GB | Go to resource |
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