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ff. 2-92v: [Guillelmus Peraldus, De eruditione principum]: f. 2: [Prologue]: Incipit prologus in librum eruditionis principum, Cum pars illustris ecclesie sit cetus principum et multum ab eis dependeat vita minorum ... f. 2v: [Chapter list]: Incipiunt capituli primi libri, Quod potestas terrena pocius est timenda quam appetenda, i ... Incipit: Incipit liber primus quod potestas terrena pocius est timenda quam appetenda, Cum inordinatus amor potestatis terrene multum noceat ... Explicit: eo quod corpori dominico ad modicum tempus fuit associata. Liber eruditionis principum explicit. Benedictus deus qui incepit et complevit. Amen. f. 93: On the former pastedown, list of authorities, mainly the books of the Bible, but also Bernard, Augustine, Seneca, Isidore and Aristotle with appropriate abbreviations. f. 93v blank. Title supplied by cataloger. Guilelmus Peraldus' De eruditione principum written in France in the first third of the fourteenth century. For attribution to Guilelmus Peraldus, see Kaeppeli, SOPMA 1626. Sometimes attributed Humbert of Romans, Vincent of Beauvais, or Thomas Aquinas. Span folios: ff. 1-93v. Support: Parchment. Layout: 1¹²(-4, after f. 3) 2¹²(-6, 7 after f. 16) 3¹⁰(-4, 7 after ff. 24 and 26) 4¹⁰(-2, 5, 6, 9 after ff. 30, 32, 34) 5¹²(-2, 4, 10 after ff. 36, 37, 42) 6¹²(-11, 12 after f. 54) 7¹² one quire missing here 8¹²(-1 after f. 66) one quire missing here 9⁸ 10⁸. Catchwords in lower right margin; quires signed in lead on last leaf verso in early form arabic numerals. 2 columns of 31 lines, ruled in ink with double bounding lines at left and right of written space, with top and bottom 2 lines full across and with additional sets of double rules in the upper margin (used for the running headlines) and in the lower margin. Written in a well formed book hand. Decoration: Parted red and blue initials, 6- and 5-line, with filigree infilling, tendrils and cascades in both colors; alternating red and blue initials, 2-line, with similar decoration. Alternating plain red and blue initials, 1-line, in the chapter list at the beginning of the book and in those that remain before the individual Books (for Books 4, 5 and 7). Running headlines across the opening, alternating colors. Rubrics throughout. Scattered marginalia. Two quires and 15 leaves missing with loss of text as follows: after f. 3, Chapter list, Book 5, 21 to Book 7, 5; after f. 16, Book 1, 7 to 1, 9; after f. 24, Book 1, 15 to 2, 1; after f. 26, Book 2, 3 to 2, 6; after f. 30, Book 2, 10 to 2, 11; after f. 32, Book 2, 13 to 3, 3; after f. 34, Book 3, 4 to 3, 5; after f. 36, Book 3, 7 to 3, (?); after f. 37, Book 3, (?) to 3, 9; after f. 42, Book 4, 5 to 4, 7; after f. 54, Book 5, 10 to 5, 12; after f. 66, Book 5, 25 to 5, 38; after f. 77, Book 5, 50 to 6, 1. Input into Digital Scriptorium by: C. W. Dutschke, 8/19/2012. Cataloged from existing description: C. W. Dutschke with the assistance of R. H. Rouse et al., Guide to Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the Huntington Library (San Marino, 1989). Bound in 15th century leather over wooden boards, with diagonal rules, horseshoe and dot tooling; 4 corner and 1 center brass bosses (2 missing on the back cover); 2 fore edge straps closing to pins on the front; on the front cover, 2 paper labels: ""Liber eruditionis principum"" and ""B"" or possibly ""8""; rebacked and repaired in 1972. HM 25778. Huntington Library, San Marino, CA.
Christian education--Early works to 1800 Manuscripts (documents) (aat)
Source
Manuscripts, Huntington Digital Library
Provenance
Belonged to Isham Keller of Redlands, California who may have removed the missing quires and leaves before selling it to Dawson's Book Shop, Los Angeles, in April 1947; acquired from Dawson's by Mrs. Mary W. T. Dickinson. Received by the Huntington Library in April 1953 as a bequest from Mary Dickinson (d. September 1952).
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