Collection ID: 0027 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De regimine regum et principum

Authors

• Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316 (http://viaf.org/viaf/100187638)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

10a 212
(Philadelphia, The College of Physicians of Philadelphia, Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia)

Alternate identifiers

• deRicci: 6
• Hirsch: 5

Publisher

Historical Medical Library of The College of Physicians of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Lombardy?, Italy

Summary

This manuscript is an early fourteenth-century copy of a treatise on kingly conduct written in the thirteenth century by Giles of Rome for Prince Philip, later Philip IV of France. The manuscript is divided into three books: the first on the individual conduct of the king, the second on personal relationships with family and household, and the third on the state. Each of the three books is subdivided into three parts, each with its own chapter list. This manuscript was written in northern Italy, perhaps Lombardy, on parchment in rotunda script. Aside from three historiated initials (fols. 1a recto, 89r, 227v), each part's chapter list begins with a puzzle initial in red and blue and each part's text begins with a multicolored decorated initial.

Notes

• Nineteenth-century parchment flyleaves
   

Extent

I+ 258+ii; 234 × 173 mm bound to 240 x 180 mm

Foliation

Contemporary foliation in ink, upper right recto; fols. 2–257; modern foliation in pencil for first two leaves of text as "1a" and "1b", and back flyleaves as fols. 258–259

Collation

1-19 (12), 20-22 (10)

Signatures

All quires except first signed, fols. 2-22, lower left first recto, in modern pencil, probably by the binder

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Horizontal, lower right last verso, framed in ornamental penwork rectangles

Binding

Nineteenth-century parchment over pasteboards, signed on the upper pastedown by "R[omain] Raparlier" (b. 1857), textblock now detached from covers and spine

Layout

Two columns of thirty to thirty-two lines; ruled in lead with vertical bounding lines; pricking often visible; written area: 145 × 95–97mm

Decoration

Ten-line historiated initial showing Guillaume de Vitry presenting the work to Prince Philip (fol. 1a); six-line multicolored decorated initials at the beginning of most of the nine part divisions, including two inhabited initials with portraits of a prince (fols. 89r, 227v); two- to six-line puzzle initials in red and blue, with penwork flourishing in both colors, at the beginnings of most of the chapter lists before each part; two-line initials to chapters, alternately red with blue penwork flourishing or vice versa; rubrics in red (often exceeding the space allowed for them), guides to the rubricator often visible at the lower edge of the page; capitals stroked in red; paraphs in plain red, or alternately blue or red

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Provenance details described by Peter Kidd: Written and illuminated in northern Italy, probably Lombardy (I am grateful to Milvia Bollati and Francesca Manzari for their opinions as to the origin); with contemporary marginal corrections throughout, otherwise few marginalia other than an occasional "N"[ota]; Unidentified 14th(?)century reader: pentrials, e.g. "In nomine. domini. Eterni. amen. Istud. Est euangelium. sancti. ioanis. …" (fol.257r); Unidentified 15th(?)century reader: ink foliation and numbering of chapters in the chapter lists; Inscribed, 15th century, "Iste liber est mei f(rat)ris Geo(r)gii de Fivizano" (fol.257v); Fivvizano is northeast of La Spezia; above this is a price "prec[...] duc(?) 8 auri"; "The Property of a Well Known Amateur", sold at Sotheby's, July 28, 1902, lot 117; bought by "Greene, J.W." for £5 2s 6d.; "The Property of a Gentleman", sold at Sotheby's, July 7, 1913, lot 352; bought by Davis & Orioli, London booksellers, for £7 15s; Inscribed in pencil "E.C." and "721.90" (fol.ir, top left and right corners respectively); James Tregaskis (1850–1926), London bookseller; inscribed in pencil "Colonna / £37 –" and with a stock number(?) and price code "793 / my/ms/o" (front pastedown); inscribed in pencil "Egidius Romanus, S t . Augustine friar" (fol.i verso); offered in a series of Tregaskis's " The Caxton Head" catalogues, priced £37: Catalogue no.801 (February 25, 1918), no.125; Catalogue 811 (17 February, 1919), no.162; Catalogue 816 (July 21, 1919), no.623 (with a clipping from this catalogue formerly stuck to fol.ir, now loose); and Catalogue 823 (February 9, 1920) no.145; College of Physicians: Library bookplate (front pastedown) stamped with the accession number "101296", date "Apr 5 1920", and "Fund for Rare Books", and inscribed in ink with the price "166. 50 "; inscribed in pencil with the source, "Tregaskis" (fol.1br, inner margin)
   

Related resources

• A Descriptive Catalogue of the Medieval Manuscripts in the Library of the College of Physicians, Philadelphia by Peter Kidd (http://www.academia.edu/19606281/A_Descriptive_Catalogue_of_the_Medieval_Manuscripts_in_the_Library_of_the_College_of_Physicians_Philadelphia)
• Hirsch, Rudolf, A Catalogue of the Manuscripts and Archives of the Library of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia (Philadelphia, 1983), no. 5.

Keywords

• Treatise
• 14th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Historiated initial
• Puzzle initial
• Manicules

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Table of contents

• 1a verso — [Book 1, Part 1 chapter list]
• 1a verso — [Book 1, Part 1]
• fol. 17r — [Book 1, Part 2 chapter list]
• fol. 17v — [Book 1, Part 2]
• fol. 63r — [Book 1, Part 3 chapter list]
• fol. 63r — [Book 1, Part 3]
• fol. 88v — [Book 2, Part 1 chapter list]
• fol. 89r — [Book 2, Part 1]
• fol. 118v — [Book 2, Part 2 chapter list]
• fol. 119r — [Book 2, Part 2]
• fol. 142r — [Book 2, Part 3 chapter list]
• fol. 142v — [Book 2, Part 3]
• fol. 162v — [Book 3, Part 1 chapter list]
• fol. 163r — [Book 3, Part 1]
• fol. 182v — [Book 3, Part 2 chapter list]
• fol. 183v — [Book 3, Part 2]
• fol. 226v — [Book 3, Part 3 chapter list]
• fol. 227v — [Book 3, Part 3]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Engraved bookplate, College of Physicians of Philadelphia
• 1a recto — Historiated initial E, Monk presenting manuscript to king
• fol. 2v — Manicule
• fol. 17r — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 26r — Manicule
• fol. 33r — Manicule
• fol. 63r — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 63r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 77v — Decorated initial E
• fol. 88v — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 89r — Inhabited initial P, Prince
• fol. 118v — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 119r — Decorated initial E
• fol. 129v — Manicule
• fol. 142r — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 142v — Decorated initial D
• fol. 163r — Decorated initial Q
• fol. 183v — Decorated initial P
• fol. 197r — Manicule
• fol. 198r — Manicule
• fol. 226v — Puzzle initial Q
• fol. 227v — Inhabited initial P, Prince