Extent: 79 leaves : parchment, illustrations ; 298 x 221 (202 x 140) mm bound to 308 x 233 mm.
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Incipit: Le gouuernement des rois “Sensuit le prologue dun dotteur en recommandant aristote. Dieu tout puissant vueille garder notre Roy et la gloire de ceulx qui croient en lui. Et conferme son roiaume pour prendre la loi de dieu…” -- Le liure de bonnes meurs “Cy commence la Premiere partie de ce liure laquelle parle du Remede qui est contre les sept pechez mortelz. Et premierement, Comment... Explicit: Le gouuernement des rois “Mais considere tous les signes dun homme et regarde les signes qui plus habondent en lomme et te tien a la mielleur et plus prouffitable partie. Explicit le gouuernement des Rois et princes terriens.” -- Le liure de bonnes meurs “Parquoy il appert que pou vault lesperance de ceulx qui dient que ce monde durera moult longuement. Cy fine le liure du... Ms. composite codex. Title from explicits of the two works. Collation: Parchment ; fols. iii (modern paper) + 79 + iv (modern paper) ; catchwords on the last verso of the quires ; modern foliation in pencil in lower corner. Layout: 34 lines per page in two columns ; ruled in red. Description: Rubricated ; each rubric prededed by a blue paraph mark ; alternating blue and gold paraph marks. Decoration: Chapters and sections begin with 3- to 6-line pink or blue initials on gold fields, with flowers and tracery. Le Gouvernement des rois opens with a 1-column miniature and half border. Livre de bonnes meurs opens with a 2-column miniature and full border; books 2-5 accompanied by half borders. See the entry in Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library... Origin: Executed about 1435, perhaps for a patron in Brittany, to judge by the decoration. Unidentified and obscured heraldic device, perhaps belonging to the original owner (fol. 25r). In 1900 owned by the Paris firm of Damascène Morgand. Robert Garrett purchased the two parts of the manuscript. His gift to the Princeton University Library, 1942.
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