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Cambridge, Corpus Christi College, 496
 
Title:Regiment of Princes
Author:Hoccleve
Contents:Bound together with printed book (Part I=P. Jovius de legatione Basilii, Augsburg, 1527'CCCC printed book no. 105); Part II, Hoccleve's Regiment of Princes, is mixed parchment and paper, followed by inscription in scroll.
Language:English
Date Range:1440-1465
Scribal Hands:
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Material:Combination; parchment folios 1, 18, 57, 58; so outer bifolium of first quire and inner bifolium of last quire.
No of Folios:Part II is 60 leaves (1-60v), mostly paper, followed by a parchment flyleaf cut from an earlier manuscript, written on in Latin, James names as a12th c service book.
Pagination:Modern pencil in upper outer corner, recto giving the folio number just on first folio of each quire, so on 19, 31, 43 and 55, and also quire numbers on lower outer corner of each of these leaves, 2 through 5, modern pencil.
Quiring:118, 2-412, 56
Catchwords:By the scribe in lower margin, running up to right frame line, with elaborate scrolls drawn around in same ink as text, well drawn.
Page Size:200 x 140
Frame:None, or possibly drypoint left margin
Writing Space:160 x 105
Incipits and Explicits:On f60v, in a scroll after end of text: 'Explicit liber iste qui vocatur Occhiffe [sic] de regimine principum & constat Magistro Willelmo Wilflete socio Aule de clare Cantabrig' qui eum scribendo propriis manibus laborauit; and another hand, slightly later has added, squeezed into scroll, 'hic fuit Decanus de stoke college iuxta Clare'.
Marginal Headings:Just the Explicit.
Title by Scribe:On f1 at top, by scribe (Wilflete), 'Johannes [sic] Occliffe de regimine principum & constat M[agister] W Wilflete'
Other Names (not owners):At head of text, in upper margin of f1 by hand of scribe, 'Johannes Occliffe de regimine principum & constat M[agister] W Wilflete
after end of text, f60v, inscription in scroll: 'Explicit liber iste qui vocatur Occhiffe de regimine principum & constat Magistro Willelmo Wilflete socio Aule de clare Cantabrig' qui eum scribendo propriis manibus laborauit; and another hand, slightly later has added, squeezed into scroll, 'hic fuit Decanus de stoke college iuxta Clare' James catalogue adds, 'He was Master of Clare from 1436 to 1455.
Miscellaneous Info:Below the scroll inscription to fill up f60, in another contemporary hand or a bit later, a note on Jonas propheta, which James identifies as beginning of a Latin prologue to Jonah. At front of volume, before the printed book, is a bifolium parchment written late fourteenth-fifteenth century with English pen flourished decoration, a Latin text, James identifies as a testamenta xii patriarcharum.
Further Information:James Catalogue, II. 447; Seymour on Regiment MSS, p 283
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