The Medieval Circulation of the De morali principis institutione of Vincent of Beauvais
Robert J. Schneider|Richard H. Rouse
"The Medieval Circulation of the De morali principis institutione Vincent Beauvais." In this article we reconstruct transmission and trace circulation Principis institutione, a treatise on kingship written for Louis IX France by Dominican Beauvais about 1262. This work, first volume projected but uncompleted "opus universale" politics, discourses political power legitimacy advises prince wisdom he should display in governance vices court must contend with. However, most original Vincent's treatises appears to have been ignored Louis's Capetian Valois successors began circulate only some fifty years after author's death. The nine manuscripts one incunabulum which survive belong two families. One, descendants probably fair copy, circulated anonymously haphazardly Continent; its copies were made remained Paris Basel. others, dedication England, southern or Catalonia, northern Germany Scandinavia. was disseminated largely through houses order, sought disseminate works writers priories studia, not French monarchy, would opposed argument legitimacy.
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