On the art of speaking ... [etc.], ca. 1450.

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On the art of speaking ... [etc.], ca. 1450.

Contains a treatise on the art of rhetoric, followed by Abbot Ceolfrith's letter on the computation of Easter to King Nechtan excerpted from Bede's Ecclesiastical history.

8 leaves ; 205 x 135 mm.

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SNAC Resource ID: 7440577

Folger Shakespeare Library

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