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Description: | An important feature of a general medieval university education was the 'Dictamen', or Art of composition, which included rules for drawing up official letters, briefs and other legal documents. Treatises on the subject often include copies of real documents which serve as models; the can be extremely important for the historian, because they can preserve texts which do not survive in any other form. This thick volume, containing a variety of material, was owned by a monk of Canterbury cathedral in 1452.
The heading at the top of the first page states that this book was bought by master Henry Cranebroke, monk of Christ Church, Canterbury, in 1452. Two lines lower down is the name of a subsequent owner: Archbishop Thomas Cranmer (1489-1556). | 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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