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<p>Bryn Mawr College Library, MS 2. France, Mid-14th century. This is a mid-fourteenth-century French manuscript, which contains the text of Giles of Rome's De regimine principum, as well as a table of the chapters for Book II, part 2 through Book III, part 2 and the Office of Saint Catherine. There is one seven-line historiated pink initial on a blue background, with blue and red acanthus leaves extending along the inner margin, showing a three quarter portrait, possibly of the author, clad in his black Augustinian robes presenting a book. The initial and border decoration are badly worn. There are also two- to three-line red and blue ink initials with penwork flourishes in the other color marking major text divisions, running heads alternating red and blue letters, paragraph marks alternating red and blue, chapter headings in red, and guide letters for decorator visible. The ink has worn in places, and there is some water damage in the margins, but there is no loss of text due to this; however, the text is defective and breaks off or is missing portions with an entire quire missing from fols. 125-136, containing portions of Book II chapter 12 and all of chapters 1-6 and portions of chapter 7 of Book III.
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<br>Subjects: 14th century; France; French</div>
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