De regimine principum, 1425 - 1475

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.

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)

Parchment support, ff. iv (two modern parchment bifolia; i = front pastedown) + 196 + iv (two modern parchment bifolia; iv = back pastedown).

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".

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

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.

Gothic-textualis script. Sections 1 and 2 written by several scribes in an informal gothic bookhand below the top line; article 3 added later in gothic cursive.

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.

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