De regimine principum

Description

Title: De regimine principum
Creator: Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316
Published / Created: [between 1300 and 1325]
Publication Place: France
Abstract: Manuscript on parchment (poor quality, pieced) of Aegidius Romanus, De regimine principum
Description: In Latin.
Script: Written by multiple scribes in small gothic bookhand.
Divided intials, red and blue, 6- to 5-line, with pen flourishes in red and blue, mark major text divisions; initial on f. 1r has simple border extending down inner margin. Small initials, 3- to 2-line, alternate red and blue, with penwork flourishes in opposite color. Headings (some missing) and running headlines in red. Paragraph marks alternate red and blue. Notes to rubricator.
Binding: Nineteenth century, France. Black goatskin, blind-tooled, with gold-tooled doublures. Bound by L. Magnin, Lyon. Stains from fore-edge clasps of earlier binding on early parchment flyleaf.
Provenance: Purchased from Emile Rossignol of Paris in 1958 by L. C. Witten, who sold it in 1959 to Thomas E. Marston.
Extent: ff. iii + i + 179 + iii : 175 x 130 (125 x 88) mm.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Manuscripts, Medieval France 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: parchment ;
Resource Type: unspecified
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Name): Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316.
Augustinians.
Subject (Topic): Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316
Augustinians
Didactic literature, Latin (Medieval and modern)
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
France > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library

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Citation: Aegidius Romanus, De Regimine Principum. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.