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Title

De regimine principum

Authors

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

Other related names

• Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951, former owner (https://viaf.org/viaf/78699777)

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

MS 2
(Bryn Mawr, United States, Bryn Mawr College, Bryn Mawr College Library)

Alternate identifiers

• http://www.brynmawr.edu/library/speccoll/guides/ms2.shtml
• Goodhart: 20
• deRicci: 20

Publisher

Bryn Mawr College Library

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

France

Summary

This is a mid-fourteenth-century French manuscript, which contains the text of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, as well as a table of the chapters for Book II, part 2 through Book III, part 2 and the Office of Saint Catherine. There is one seven-line historiated pink initial on a blue background, with blue and red acanthus leaves extending along the inner margin, showing a three quarter portrait, possibly of the author, clad in his black Augustinian robes presenting a book. The initial and border decoration are badly worn. There are also two- to three-line red and blue ink initials with penwork flourishes in the other color marking major text divisions, running heads alternating red and blue letters, paragraph marks alternating red and blue, chapter headings in red, and guide letters for decorator visible. The ink has worn in places, and there is some water damage in the margins, but there is no loss of text due to this; however, the text is defective and breaks off or is missing portions with an entire quire missing from fols. 125-136, containing portions of Book II chapter 12 and all of chapters 1-6 and portions of chapter 7 of Book III.

Notes

• Folio numbers refer to modern pencil foliation, not original ink foliation
   
• Title in upper margin of fol. 1r in red and blue, partially effaced: "A[egidius] De Regi[mine]"
   
• Parchment flyleaves
   
• Sections 1 and 2 written by several scribes in an informal gothic bookhand below the top line; article 3 added later in gothic cursive
   
• Text is defective: fol. 42 missing with portions of chapter 23 and all of chapter 24 of Book I, part 2; text breaks off at... sed secundum passionem et uoluntatem. tanto//, and resumes with: Philosophus iiii ethice mediocriter... ; f. 51 missing with portions of chapter 32 and all of chapter 33 of Book I, part 2: ...quaedam gentes bestiales morabantur sacrificantes matres proprias et//[uirtu]tes minime inter uirtutes alias et perseuerantes... An entire quire is missing between fols. 120 and 121 containing portions of Book II chapter 12 and all of chapters 1-6 and portions of chapter 7 of Book III; text breaks off on fol. 120v: ...apud reges autem et principes inter uias tantas//, and resumes on fol. 121r with: patres non certificarenter de propiis filiis...
   
• Collation formula in previous cataloguing defective; new collation model created (January 2018)
   

Extent

Iii+178+iii; 261 x 194 mm bound to 274 x 205 mm

Foliation

Early foliation in ink, upper left recto (1-194); modern refoliation in pencil, upper left recto

Collation

1 (14), 2 (12), 3 (14), 4 (12, -2 -10), 5 (12), 6 (12, -1 -12), 7-10 (12), 11 (12, -1 -2 -3 -4 -5 -6 -7 -8 -9 -10 -11 -12), 12-15 (12), 16 (10)

Signatures

Some quire signatures in red ink, lower right recto

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Catchwords, enclosed in penwork rectangles, or in a few cases, in more elaborate penwork decorations, in lower margin at folios: 14v, 26v, 40v, 50v, 62v, 84v, 96v, 108v, 120v, 132v, 144v, 156v, 168v

Binding

Nineteenth-century quarter bound in blind-tooled brown calf over oak boards with two plaited leather fastenings of three strands each; gold tooled title on spine: "AEGIDIUS/ DE REG/ PRINCIPU"; at bottom "c. 1350"

Layout

Fols. 1r-176v: two columns, thirty-two lines, ruled with single vertical and horizontal bounding lines full across in ink; pricking visible in upper and lower margins; written area: 165 x 115 mm

Fols. 177v-178r: two columns, twenty-eight to thirty-five lines, with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 256 x 160 mm

Decoration

One seven-line historiated pink initial on blue background, with blue and red acanthus leaves extending along inner margin, showing a three quarter portrait, possibly of the author, clad in his black Augustinian robes presenting a book (fol. 1r); initial and border decoration badly worn; two-to three-line red and blue ink initials with penwork flourishes in the other color marking major text divisions; running heads alternate red and blue letters; paragraph marks alternating red and blue; chapter headings in red; guide letters for decorator visible

Script

Gothic--textualis

Provenance

• Early provenance unknown; offered for sale by Maggs, Cat. 542 (1930) n. 73, with facs.; sold by Sotheby (London, 1934 March 12, n. 834) to Rowe; sold by Sotheby (London, 1934 Nov. 26, n. 520) to Howard L. Goodhart (bookplate), and presented by him to Bryn Mawr College, March 1949
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W. J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada (New York: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 1674, no. 20
• 1930 - Maggs Bros. - No. 542: Art of Writing, 2800 B.C. to 1930 A.D. Illustrated in a Collection of original Documents written on Vellum, paper, Papyrus, Silk, Linen, Bamboo, or inscribed on Clay, Marble, Steatite, Jasper, Haematite, Matrix of Emerald, and Chalcedony, cat. 73
• 1934-11-26 - Sotheby's (Firm) - Printed books and a few manuscripts, lot 520
• 1934-03-12 - Sotheby's (Firm) - Printed books and a few manuscripts, lot. 834

Keywords

• 14th century
• France
• French
• Liturgy
• Treatise
• Historiated initial

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Preface to De regimine principum; incipit: Ex illustrissima ac sanctissima prosapia oriundo suo domino speciali. domino Philippo primogenito et heredi preclarissimi uiri domini Philippi dei gratia illustrissimi regis francorum... [fol. 1r]
• fol. 1v — Table of chapters, Bk. I, part 1: Incipiunt capitula prime partis libri primi; incipit: Quis sit modus procedendi in regimine principum [fol. 1v]
• fol. 1v — De regimine principum; incipit: Oportet ut latitudo sermonis in unaquaque re fit secundum exigenciam ipsius rei et non magis nec minus ut uult philosophus... [fol. 1v]; explicit: Quod totum ordinare debent ad commune bonum et ad pacem ciuium, nam si intendunt commune bonum et pacem ciuium merebuntur pacem illam eternam in qua suprema requies quam deus ipse suis promisit fidelibus qui est benedictus in secula seculorum. Amen. [fol. 174r]
• fol. 174r — Table of chapters, Book II, part 2 through Book III, part 2: Incipiunt Rubrice capitulorum secundae partis secundi libri de regimine principum; incipit: Quod decet omnes parentes circa proprios filios esse sollicitos [fol. 174r]; explicit: Expliciunt rubrice super libros de regimine principum [fol. 176v]
• fol. 177v — Office of Saint Catherine: Officium beate Katerine uirginis quod ordinauit dominus Johannes papa xxii...; incipit: Deprecare regem celi pro me uirgo Katerina/ adiuuare queso veni et saluare me festina [fol. 177v]; explicit: ...ad mortem quod Christus est peruenire ualeamus per dominum nostrum Jesum Christum. Amen. [fol. 178r]
• fol. 178v — Blank, faint palimpsest

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Howard Lehman Goodhart
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's note in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil: "£ 25"
• fol. 1r — Seven-line inhabited initial E of a monk in a black habit, damaged
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Bookseller's note in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Bookseller's note in pencil: "£ 25"