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Subject(s)

• English literature—Middle English, 1100-1500—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• English poetry—Middle English, 1100-1500—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Henry V King of England 1387-1422—Poetry [Browse]
• Great Britain—Politics and government—1399-1485—Poetry [Browse]
• Education of princes—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Authors and patrons—Poetry—Early works to 1800 [Browse]
• Manuscripts, English (Middle)—New Jersey—Princeton [Browse]

Former owner

• Rawlinson, Thomas, 1675-1725 [Browse]
• Farmer, Richard, 1735-1797 [Browse]
• Heber, Richard, 1773-1833 [Browse]
• Ashburnham, Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of, 1797-1878 [Browse]
• Thompson, Henry Yates, 1838-1928 [Browse]
• Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Donor

Garrett, Robert, 1875-1961 [Browse]

Bookseller

• Evans, R. H. (Robert Harding), 1777-1857 [Browse]
• Rodd, Thomas, 1796-1849 [Browse]
• Bernard Quaritch (Firm) [Browse]
• Sotheby's (Firm) [Browse]

Related name

Princeton University. Library. Manuscript. Garrett MS. 137 [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Poetry [Browse]

Rare books genre

• Watermarks [Browse]
• Headbands [Browse]

Getty AAT genre

• poetry [Browse]
• manuscripts (documents) [Browse]

Summary note

Hoccleve's poem detailing how a prince should rule himself and his kingdom.

Notes

• Incipit: "[M]ewsing vppon the resteles bysynes, Whiche that this troble World hath ay in honde, That other thyng than frute of bytternes, Ne yoleth’not as y can vnder stonde ..."
• Explicit: "Beseche the hym of mercy and indulgence, And for thy goode herte he be notte foo, To the that seist of lovys feruence, [That] knowyst he whom noting is hidde ffro."
• Ms. codex.
• Title from print catalog.
• Preceded by a partial index to patristic and philosophical authorities and scriptural passages in Giles of Rome, archbishop of Bourges' De regimine principum (fol. 1r-2v).
• Collation: Paper ; fol. i + 83 + ii ; foliation in ink ; modern foliation in pencil.
• Layout: 28-42 lines per page ; partially ruled.
• Description: Watermarks (bull's head; bull; crowned column)
• Decoration: Middle English rubrics, Latin topical notes in outer margins and explicits in red ink.

Binding note

Later binding. England, 19th century. Brown morocco over pasteboards. Endbands.

Language note

Middle English, index and marginal summaries in Latin;

Script

Anglicana

Provenance

Early provenance unknown. First known owner Thomas Rawlinson. Later owned by Richard Farmer. Sold from his colllection on 7 May 1798 to[?] Richard Heber. Sold from his collection on 17 February 1836 by Robert Harding Evans to Thomas Rodd who later sold it to Bertram Ashburnham, 4th earl of Ashburnham. Acquired in 1897 by Henry Yates Thompson. Sold by Bernard Quaritch in May 1899, purchaser uncertain. Sold at Sotheby's in 1911 to Quaritch who re-sold it to Robert Garrett, Class of 1897, on 15 July 1925. His gift to Princeton University Library in 1942.

Source acquisition

Gift; of Robert Garrett, Princeton Class of 1897, 1942.

References

• Medieval & Renaissance manuscripts in the Princeton University Library, pages 315-317.
• Ricci, S. de. Census of medieval and Renaissance manuscripts in the United States and Canada, volume 1, page 892

Other format(s)

Also available in an electronic version.

Place name(s)

England

Other title(s)

De regimine principum

OCLC

1340383440

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