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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 manuscript is written entirely on paper, with this single parchment leaf at the end which has been used for jottings and sketches of pants and inscribed scrolls with pious phrases such as 'God have mercy on me', 'Fear God', etc. | 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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