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Polak, Emil J., Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters, Leiden, E. J. Brill (Davis medieval texts and studies, 8-9), 1993 - 1994, 2 vols. (xxii + 324 pp.; xvii + 474 pp.).

Resum

In the Middle Ages and the Renaissance, letter-writing was seen as a major branch of rhetoric, and its importance is demonstrated by the survival of numerous manuals, treatises, formularies and model letter collections. This census is a systematic survey of the extant manuscripts containing these works, arranged alphabetically by country, city, library or archive, and collection, and gives standard details of folios, incipits, explicits, colophons and bibliography. The few manuscripts with model speeches are also included; they are of a related genre, secular oratory, which developed in the High Middle Ages. Volume I is a compilation of over 1100 extant Latin manuscript sources consulted in some 200 libraries and archives in what was until recently Communist Eastern Europe. Volume II is a compilation of over 1200 Latin manuscript sources consulted in over 250 libraries and archives in parts of Western Europe, Japan and the USA. This work should be a useful research tool for those interested in Medieval and Renaissance rhetoric, oratory, diplomatics, learning and the Classical tradition.

Contents:
* [1]. A census of manuscripts found in Eastern Europe and the former U.S.S.R.
* [2]. A census of manuscripts found in part of Western Europe, Japan, and the United States of America: the works on letter-writing from the eleventh through the seventeenth century found in Belgium, Denmark, Finland, Greece, Ireland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland, Japan, and the United States of America.

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