Ars dictaminis

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Ars dictaminis (or ars dictandi) is the art of letter-writing, which often intersects with the art of rhetoric.

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History of Letter-Writing

Greco-Roman Theory

Early examples of letter-writing theory can be found in C. Julius Victor's Ars rhetorica and Cassiodorus Senator's Variae epistolae.^[1] Other examples can be found in the Pseudo-Demetrius' Typoi epistolikoi, Pseudo-Libanius' Epistolimaioi kharacteres, Demetrius' Peri hermeneias, Philostratus of Lemnos' treatise, and Gregory of Nazianus' Epistle 51.^[2]

Latin Middle Ages

During the Latin medieval period, the standing assumption was that these writings would be composed in Latin, and according to well worked-out models. This made the arts of composition a subfield of rhetoric.

Medieval letter writing developed for ecclesiastical, government, and business purposes.^[1]^[3]

Important figures in the early development of Latin letter writing and document composition include Alberic of Monte Cassino (Dictaminum radii, Breviarium), his critic Adalbert of Samaria (Praecepta dictaminum, c. 1120), Hugh of Bologna (Rationes dictandi prosaice, c.1120), Anonymous' Aurea gemma (c.1119), Anonymous' Rationes dictandi (1135), Anonymous' Precepta prosaici dictaminis secundum Tullium (c. 1140), Bernard of Romagna's Introductiones prosaici dictaminis (1145), Anonymous' Ad plenam scientiam dictaminum (c.1140), and Baldwin's Liber de dictaminibus (c.1150).^[1] Lawrence of Aquilegia (Practica sive usus dictaminis, c.1300) is a much later example of the genre.^[1]

Letter conventions include some form of address (e.g., “Worshipful master”); salutation (“I greet you well”); notification (“May it please you to know”); exposition (“the wool was shipped”); disposition (“and I want my money”); and valediction (“May God keep you well, at least until my bill is paid”). Clerks and scribes wrote the letters based on those rules.

Early Modern Europe

Renaissance letter writing, inspired by the rediscovery of Cicero's letters, broaden the scope of letter writing instruction.^[4]

References

^ ^a ^b ^c ^d Murphy, James Jerome (1974). Rhetoric in the Middle Ages : a history of rhetorical theory from Saint Augustine to the Renaissance. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-02439-7. OCLC 1176978.
^ Poster, Carol (2007). "A Conversation Halved: Epistolary Theory in Greco-Roman Antiquity," in Letter-writing manuals and instruction from antiquity to the present : historical and bibliographic studies. Eds. Carol Poster, Linda C. Mitchell. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 21–51. ISBN 978-1-57003-651-4. OCLC 72353920.
^ Richardson, Malcolm (2007). "The Ars dictaminis, the Formulary, and Medieval Epistolary Practice," in Letter-writing manuals and instruction from antiquity to the present : historical and bibliographic studies. Carol Poster, Linda C. Mitchell. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 52–66. ISBN 978-1-57003-651-4. OCLC 72353920.
^ Burton, Gideon (2007). "From Ars dictaminis to Ars conscribendis epistolis: Renaissance Letter-Writing Manuals i the Context of Humanism," in Letter-writing manuals and instruction from antiquity to the present : historical and bibliographic studies. Carol Poster, Linda C. Mitchell. Columbia, S.C.: University of South Carolina Press. pp. 88–101. ISBN 978-1-57003-651-4. OCLC 72353920.

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