Ars dictaminis (or ars dictandi) is the art of letter-writing, which often intersects with the art of rhetoric. Early examples of letter-writing theory...
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man of letters." An exponent of the formal style of Latin prose called ars dictandi. Thomas of Celano (c. 1200 – c. 1265), was a Franciscan friar, poet,...
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the highest state offices were held by ecclesiastics and monks. The ars dictandi was taught in the schools connected with the monasteries and those under...
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Gervase of Melkley (section Ars versificaria)
some notes on word formation. It is also known as Ars poetica and De arte versificatoria et modo dictandi. The book consists of three parts. The first part...
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among others, Accursius) in law, rhetoric, gramathic and notary (ars dictandi and ars notaria). He saw Saint Francis of Assisi in Bologna, a remarkable...
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penances imposed, dispensations granted and sentences handed down. His Ars dictandi, begun before 1216 and finished after 1220, describes the proper form...
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the German, the Ars versificaria (c. 1215) of Gervase of Melkley, the Poetria nova (1208–1213) and the Documentum de modo et arte dictandi et versificandi...
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Lawrence of Aquilegia (section Tractatus super diversis modis componendi epistolam; Ars narrandi, petendi, et concludendi; Speculum dictaminis super diversis litterarum formis; Theorica dictaminis (all undated))
(Perelman 1991). Camargo, Martin. Ars Dictaminis Ars Dictandi. Belgium: Brepols, 1991. ---. "The Waning of the Medieval Ars Dictaminis." Rhetorica XIX.2 (Spring...
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