Item MS136 - Rhetoricae institutionis : manuscript

Manuscript textbook on rhetoric and grammar, with text in Latin and examples in Latin and French. French examples include excerpts from the works of Nicolas Boileau-Despréaux, Jean Racine, and Antoinette de Lafon de Boisguérin des Houlières. Likely produced by a Francophone individual in the province of Lower Canada between the end of the eighteenth century and the War of 1812.
Title transcribed from table of contents (index materiarum, i).
Spine title: "Rheto:"
Drawing of a man's head in profile at head of page 325.
8 x 10 cm pencil and gouache sketch of a man in contemporary dress (blue coat with yellow collar and red and yellow trim, and wig) smoking a pipe in a room with blue drapery and a chandelier (p. 354). Small coat of arms in lower left corner of drawing. This drawing marks the end of the Latin portion of the text.
Fragments of manuscript leaf with text in French laid in at p. 331.