Manuscript component part. Title from published editions. Dedicatory letter ends: Vale Ma[n]tuȩ idibus quinti 1444. Listed as text 7 of "Humanistic Collection" (Case MS 93.6) in Catalogue of the pre-1500 western manuscript books at the Newberry Library page 180. Unidentified translation of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, Ars rhetorica, II and III. Attribution to Dionysius questioned. The three treatises, in Latin, are found in published form in the Rhetorica, by Chirius Fortuatus (Venice, approximately 1499), on signatures n3-4, o1-3. At the beginning of the published text: Theodorus Gazeo Thesalonicensis Luchino de Medicis. S.D.P. In the published text the treatises have caption titles: [1] Dionysii Halycarnasei praecepta De oratione nuptiali. [2] Dionysii Halicarnasei praecepta De oratione natalitia. [3] Dionysii Halycarnasei praecepta De epithalamis. At end of 3rd treatise (published version): Dionysii Halycarnasei De oratione nuptiali: De oratione natalitia: De epithalamis. Finis. Layout: Written in 21 long lines; ruled in hard-point. Script: Written in Humanistic script. Origin: Written in Italy in approximately 1444.
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