Rhetorical pieces, Written perhaps in the first half of the 11th century

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MS. Auct. T. 2. 21

Held at the Weston Library

Rhetorical pieces:

Fol. 2. Explanationes in Rhetoricam M.T. Ciceronis by Victorinus, in two books
Fol. 70v. 'Precepta artis Rethoricae summatim collecta de multis ac syntomata a Iulio Seueriano.'
Extracts from rhetorical works are on fols. 1v, 74v-76, and an arithmetical excerpt on fol. 1
On fol. 76v is 'Explicit quaternio X de expositione supra Dioleticam', the volume being made up of ten quaternions of eight leaves each, except the last two which contain six leaves each

78 Leaves

MS. Auct. T. 2. 21

Falconer Madan, et al., A summary catalogue of western manuscripts in the Bodleian Library at Oxford which have not hitherto been catalogued in the Quarto series (7 vols. in 8 [vol. II in 2 parts], Oxford, 1895-1953; reprinted, with corrections in vols. I and VII, Munich, 1980), vol. IV, no. 20625

MSS. Meerman Purchase List (1824) 47.

Probably once in the possession of St. Vincent's abbey at Metz: a Clermont MS.

On parchment

8 1/8 × 6 3/8 in.

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