Medieval and Renaissance Letter Treatises and Form Letters: A Census of Manuscripts Found in Eastern Europe and the Former USSR (Davis Medieval T) (English and Latin Edition) - Hardcover

Polak, Emil J

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9004096671 ISBN 13: 9789004096677

Publisher: Brill Academic Pub, 1992

Synopsis

Letter-writing was seen in the Middle Ages and Renaissance as a major branch of rhetoric, and its importance is testified to by the survival of numerous manuals, treatises, formularies and model letter collections. Polak's pioneering inventory is the first comprehensive and organized compilation of over 1100 extant Latin manuscript sources consulted in almost 200 libraries and archives in what was until recently Communist Eastern Europe. The survey is arranged alphabetically by country, city, library or archive, and collection, and gives standard details of folios, incipits, explicits, colophons and bibliography. Four indexes of manuscripts, incipits, medieval and renaissance authors and select anonymous works are also provided.
N.B.: previously announced as Iter Epistolographicum.

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About the Author

Emil Polak, Ph.D. in Medieval History at Columbia University, is Professor of History at Queensborough Community College of the City University of New York since 1982. Publications: A Textual Study of Jacques de Dinant's Summa dictaminis (Geneva, 1975), and articles and reviews on Medieval and Renaissance letter-writing.

Language Notes

Text: English, Latin

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 9004096671
• ISBN 13: 9789004096677
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 348