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Grammars. Instructional materials.

 Subject
Subject Source: Art & Architecture Thesaurus
Scope Note: Books or treatises presenting the basic principles or elements of an art, science, discipline, or practice, especially in the 17th through the 19th century.

Found in 4 Collections and/or Records:

Composite volume containing works on Latin grammar and versification.

 File
Identifier: Adv.MS.81.5.13
Scope and Contents The contents of the volume are as follows:(i) ‘Doctrinale’ by Alexander, de Villa Dei, with the anonymous commentary ‘Aurea Grammatica’ [Nuremberg: Friedrich Creussner, ca.1482] (‘Repertorium Bibliographicum’, number 7859; ‘Index to the Early Printed Books in the British Museum’, number 2174), containing some, but not all, large initials supplied in red or blue, numerous interlinear and marginal additions, mostly quite brief, rubrication and other marks added to initials, and a...
Dates: Late 15th century.

Incomplete copy in the author`s hand of ‘The Rudiments of the Latin Tongue …’ by Thomas Ruddiman.

 Item
Identifier: Adv.MS.23.6.2
Scope and Contents The manuscript appears to be a copy, not of the text as published, but of an earlier version. The arrangement is largely the same, but the text is not as full, it is in English only, and much of the text in this copy appears in footnote form in the printed book; in addition, the preface is not present. Although apparently a fair copy, there are a number of deletions, the most substantial of which are at folios 2 verso, 16, 28 verso , 29 verso and 30, and portions of the text are written on...
Dates: Before 1714.