Bryn Mawr College, MS 2

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16505

Shelfmark:

MS 2

Title:

De regimine principum

De regimine principum

Author:

Giles, of Rome, Archbishop of Bourges, approximately 1243-1316

Giles of Rome WIKIDATA

Place:

France

France TGN

Date:

1340-1360

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Latin

Latin WIKIDATA

Material:

Parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: iii+178+iii; 261 x 194 mm bound to 274 x 205 mm; parchment

Former Owner(s):

Goodhart, Howard Lehman, 1884?-1951

Howard Lehman Goodhart WIKIDATA

Note:

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...
Collation formula in previous cataloguing defective; new collation model created (January 2018)
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
Layout: Fols. 177v-178r: two columns, twenty-eight to thirty-five lines, with double vertical bounding lines; written area: 256 x 160 mm
Script: Gothic--textualis
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...
Related resource: 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
Related resource: 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
Related resource: 1934-11-26 - Sotheby's (Firm) - Printed books and a few manuscripts, lot 520
Related resource: 1934-03-12 - Sotheby's (Firm) - Printed books and a few manuscripts, lot. 834
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

Keyword:

France

Fourteenth century

Liturgics

French (culture or style)

treatises

Historiated initials

Institutional Record:

https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0003/html/BMC_MS02.html

IIIF Manifest:

https://iiif.archive.org/iiif/3/BMC_MS2/manifest.json

Holding Institution:

Bryn Mawr College