Egidius de Regimine Principum.
Giles of Rome (1243-1316) Archbishop of Bourges
Category
Books
Date
1498
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094712
Summary
Bibliographic description
[136] leaves ; fol. Running number: 6961. Ruled in red throughout. Initial spaces left blank. Occasional manuscript marginal notes written in a sixteenth-century hand and underlining of text (a4v-a5v, b5v, d1r-d1v, d4r, e2r, e6, i5r, m1r, q5, r2r); occasional crossing-out in ink and pencil of printed text. Provenance: armorial binding of Victor-Marie d'Estrées (1660-1737), 5th Duke of Estrées: arms quarterly 1 and 4 fretty in chief three martlets, 2 and 3 crowned lion rampant (ecartelé, aux 1 & 4 d’argent, fretté de sable, de six pièces, au chef d’or, chargé de trois merlettes de sable (Estrées), aux 2 & 3 d’or, au lion d’azur lampassé & couronné de gueules (La Cauchie)), with the coronet of a duke, collars of the Ordre de Saint-Michel and Ordre du Saint-Esprit, behind the shield two batons of a Maréchal de France placed in saltire, with a robe or mantle lined with ermine. The 5th Duke of Estrées spent his fortune buying art and books, apparently without ever looking at much of it. Manuscript codes on rear endpapers: "P/I" (in ink) and "Ag65" (in red crayon or pencil). Binding: French, eighteenth-century full calf; sewn on six supports; double and single gilt fillet border; gilt oval armorial stamp on both covers of the arms of Victor-Marie d'Estrées (1660-1737), 5th Duke of Estrées on both covers; double gilt fillet along board edges; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with reddish-brown goatskin title label 'Aegidius De regim[i]ne princ vol. 1.2.3'; gilt marbled edges; placard-style marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Giles of Rome (1243-1316) Archbishop of Bourges, author Oliverius Servius (fl. 1481?-1484), editor Simon Bevilaqua (fl. 1485-1518), printer