AEGIDIUS COLUMNA (c.1243-1316, Augustinian Hermit). De Regimine Principum . Edited by Oliverius Servius. Rome: Stephan Plannck, 9 May 1482. Chancery 2° (231 x 173mm). Collation: [1 4 2 8 3 6 4-9 8 10 1 0 11-16 8 17-18 6] (1/1r editor's dedication to George, Bishop of Lisbon, 1/1v table, 2/2r first book, 18/6r colophon, registrum). 127 leaves (of 136, without 2/1 blank and lacking quire 8). Double columns (except 1/1r). 46 lines. Type: 2:88G. 10-line magenta initial on later gold ground opening text, a few 3-line initial spaces filled in red, blue or 18th-century black ink, remaining 2- to 10-line spaces left blank. (Inscription on 1/1r lower blank margin pasted over, occasional spotting and staining.) 18th-century speckled sheep-backed flexible paste-boards lettered in gilt, speckled edges (a little wormed and scuffed). Provenance : Franciscus de Hirtenberg (17th-century inscriptions, the first pasted over, the second with armorial and cropped) -- Retz, Dominican Convent (18th-century stamp). Second Latin edition of this treatise on the education of princes, which was composed originally for the French King Philip the Fair (1238-1314). H *108; GW 7218; BMC IV 81 (IB. 18322); Pellechet 69; Polain (B) 19; IGI 3094; Goff A-88.
AEGIDIUS COLUMNA (c.1243-1316, Augustinian Hermit). De Regimine Principum . Edited by Oliverius Servius. Rome: Stephan Plannck, 9 May 1482. Chancery 2° (231 x 173mm). Collation: [1 4 2 8 3 6 4-9 8 10 1 0 11-16 8 17-18 6] (1/1r editor's dedication to George, Bishop of Lisbon, 1/1v table, 2/2r first book, 18/6r colophon, registrum). 127 leaves (of 136, without 2/1 blank and lacking quire 8). Double columns (except 1/1r). 46 lines. Type: 2:88G. 10-line magenta initial on later gold ground opening text, a few 3-line initial spaces filled in red, blue or 18th-century black ink, remaining 2- to 10-line spaces left blank. (Inscription on 1/1r lower blank margin pasted over, occasional spotting and staining.) 18th-century speckled sheep-backed flexible paste-boards lettered in gilt, speckled edges (a little wormed and scuffed). Provenance : Franciscus de Hirtenberg (17th-century inscriptions, the first pasted over, the second with armorial and cropped) -- Retz, Dominican Convent (18th-century stamp). Second Latin edition of this treatise on the education of princes, which was composed originally for the French King Philip the Fair (1238-1314). H *108; GW 7218; BMC IV 81 (IB. 18322); Pellechet 69; Polain (B) 19; IGI 3094; Goff A-88.
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