tia00088000

Text-inc Id:

tia00088000

Bod-inc Id:

A-031

Headings:

Aegidius Romanus De regimine principum.

Analysis of content:

1. [a1r] Servius Tolentinas, Oliverius: [Letter addressed to] Georgius da Costa. Incipit: ‘[C]ogitanti mihi sepenumero, reuerendissime pater et domine, cui volumen de regimine principum Egidii Romani . . .’
2. [a1v] [Table of contents.]
3. [b2r] Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): [Letter addressed to] Philip, later Philip IV, King of France. ‘Prooemium.’ Incipit: ‘[E]x regia ac sanctissima prosapia oriundo suo domino speciali, domino Philippo primogenito et heredi preclarissimi viri domini Philippi dei gratia illustrissimi regis Francorum, suus deuotus frater Egidius Romanus . . . Clamat polliticorum sententia . . .’ See A‑030.
4. [b2r] Aegidius Romanus (Aegidius Columna): De regimine principum. Edited by Oliverius Servius. Incipit: ‘[O]portet ut latitudo sermonis in una quaque re sit secundum exigentiam illius rei . . .’ See A‑030.

Imprint:

Rome: Stephan Plannck, 9 May 1482. Folio.

Collation:

[a⁴ b⁸ c⁶ d–i⁸ k¹⁰ l–q⁸ r s⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ia00088000 GW 7218; H *108; Goff A‑88; BMC IV 81; Pr 3631; Bofitto 1 Ia.3; Bruni, ‘Saggio', 11; BSB‑Ink A‑41; CIBN A‑47; Sheppard 2887-8. LCN: 14423129

Copies:

1. A-031(1) First copy Bound with:
   2. Thomas Aquinas, De unitate intellectus contra Averroistas. Treviso: Johannes de Hassia, 21 Aug. 1476 (T‑124). Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter calf over marbled pasteboards, the spine gold-tooled. Size: 260 × 195 × 30 mm. Size of leaf: 260 × 195 mm. Initials supplied in black ink. Marginal notes, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands in a contemporary humanist hand, brown ink, in both items. Eighteenth-century(?) foliation and running headings in dark brown ink, in item 1 only. In the same hand, note on the life of Aegidius on [a1v]. Provenance: Purchased from P. Berès (1913- ), Catalogue 41, no. 215. SHELFMARK: Inc. d. I1(1).
2. A-031(2) Second copy For this volume see Coates–Jensen 255, no. 23. Bound with:
   1. Vincentius Bellovacensis, Opuscula. Basel: Johann Amerbach, 13 Dec. 1481 (V‑129(3)). Binding: Nineteenth-century blind-tooled calf for the Bodleian Library, re-using eighteenth-century spine. Size: 268 × 193 × 35 mm. Size of leaf: 268 × 193 mm. Provenance: William Atherold or Atherwold (†1547); inscription on [r6r]: ‘Liber do[m]pni Willelmi Atherold monachi'. Listed in the Benefactors' Register I 84 as bought in 1604 with money given by Thomas Bilson (1546/7-1616), Bishop of Winchester; see James, Catalogus (1605), 278. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 4.3(2).