Title from incipit. Formerly attributed to Boethius. Probably circulated with MS Lat 174. Written in northeastern Italy, probably in Venice, in a rounded gothic bookhand, with a lengthy marginal gloss added in a cursive script. Bound in pasteboard covered with a vellum leaf from an antiphonal, stained dark green. In a tray case, 24 cm. Belonged to Samuel Allen; his sale, Sotheby's, London, 30 Jan. 1920, no. 11, to Quaritch. Listed earlier in the catalogs of Payne and Foss, London, May 1825, no. 91, Feb. 1826, no. 532, and 1827, no. 1408, when manuscript included both the Rhetorica ad Herennium and the Disciplina ad scolarium. Belonged to Coella L. Ricketts, Chicago. Purchased with the Stephen Salisbury fund, 1942.
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