The Elements of Style Derived from the Works of Spingelli and Cos
written by Ambrose filius Patiens of House Ægidius
Manuscript completed 403. Numerous copies exist, both final and “hasty.” Annalum [2]. Bethelion [5] with innumerable student copies in whole and part, Legatum Gregori ditto, Antrum [3], etc. etc. Antrum copies two of a size both bound in plain pale leather, clear round-letter calligraphy in black and red ink, two different hands, 87 and 96 pages, thirsty linen stock; one travel-bound in soft leather involucrum, rough bark-stock, 94 creases, idiosyncratic hand in black ink. A systematization of advice on grammar and rhetoric in the composing and reciting of spells presented here and there throughout aliqua dictorum de erudientis, liberculus communis, and de Amicitiæ. By now accepted as an intermediate apprentice text throughout the Order, taught after the Black Book or Zecharrias. Eschews integritas of Cholæic for judicious use of vernacular as means of reconciling Savacion’s paradox: that the first spells of the founder of that House, written in un- and agrammatical Cholæic, nonetheless work as intended and described when cast. —notes compiled by Adrien filia Allisen of House Manere, Censor Antri
