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- [mid-15 cent.]. (Creation)
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262 ff. : Parchment. Collation 1-248, 258 (1 and 2 stubs), 26-338 ; 200 x 140 mm. (written space c. 135 x 90 mm.). Bound in bevelled oak boards covered in whittawed skin, with straps (red-stained) and clasps with brass fittings.
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There are pentrials of 16 cent., by two hands, in English on ff. 73, 74, 120 verso (macaronic verse: 'Ludo ludys for to playe / tota deie all this daye / supare scannome upone a benghe / poulcra femynay with a fare wenche') and 262 verso, and an erased 7-line inscription at the foot of f. 262 verso, otherwise exceptionally clean. On the turn-in of the upper cover, in pencil, 'Sir H. Cope's Library'. Listed as no. 15 in the library of the Reverend Sir William [Henry] Cope, Bart, of Bramshill House, Hampshire, in HMC, Third Report (1872), p. 243. The Bramshill manuscripts may have included survivors of the collection of Sir Walter Cope (DNB), see A. G. Watson, 'The manuscript collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)', Bodleian Library Record, 12 (1987), pp. 262-97: his manuscripts, like the present one, contain 'almost no evidence of post- medieval use' and no trace of his hand; notice also the comment on Cope's medieval-style bindings on p. 270. Sold at the Bramshill sale, Sotheby's, 4 March 1913, lot 2.
Immediate source of acquisition or transfer
Bernard Quaritch Ltd; London; Purchase; 1992
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Scope and content
Liber de regimine principum of Giles of Rome (Egidius Romanus), on ff. 1-262 verso. The text is defective by the loss of two leaves, cut out, after f. 192 (breaking off in Book III, part 2, cap. 17, resuming in cap. 19) and the loss of a quire after f. 198 (breaking off in Book III, part 3, cap. 4, resuming in cap. 11). Written by a single secretary hand. Blue initials with red penwork, 6-line on f. 1 and 5-line on f. 178 (for Book III). Capitula at the beginning of each part of each Book; sidenotes provided by the scribe throughout; no index. This manuscript is not included by C. F. Briggs either in his 'Manuscripts of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum in England, 1300-1500: a handlist', Scriptorium, 47 (1993), pp. 60-73, or the list in his Giles of Rome's De Regimine Principum (Cambridge, 1999).
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Access to the original manuscript by authorised permission only.
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Latin.
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In ink on the spine '15', perhaps 19 cent.
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Preferred citation: NLW MS 22872C [RESTRICTED ACCESS].
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This description follows NLW guidelines based on ISAD(G) 2nd ed.; AACR2; and LCSH.
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- English