Royal MS 10 C IX

AEGIDIUS DE COLUMNIS, De regimine principum, with an abridgement of Aristotle's Politics, &c., in Latin, viz.:-

1. 'Tabula de Ciuitate Dei' (so colophon): an index to the work by S. Augustine. Another copy of this index is in Merton Coll. MS. xxi at Oxford. A work of like initium and also a work of similar title are assigned in Tanner's Bibl. Brit-Hib. to Robert Grosseteste, but without references. Beg. 'Aaron non consentit in vitulum'. f. 1.

2. 'Tabula retractacionum beati Augustini': a similar index. Another copy is apparently in an Oxford MS., Lincoln Coll. lxix. Tanner (ib. p. 17) suggests that Alan of Lynn may be the author (cf. 3 D. III, art. 1). Beg. 'Abraham putandus est tradidisse'. f. 19.

3. 'Capitula libri qui dicitur Oculus Moralis': table of chapters in the work attributed to Grosseteste (see above, 6 E. V, art. 14). Beg. 'De tunicis oculi. In eodem'. f. 21.

4. 'Liber de regimine principum editus a fratre Egidio Romano ordinis heremitarum S. Augustini': the political treatise, in three books, of Egidio Colonna, Archbishop of Bourges (1298-1316, cf. 9 B. III, 10 C. VIII), written before 1285, being addressed to Philip IV of France before he became king. Printed (Augsburg), 1473, &c. (see Hain, Repert nos. 107-109). Another copy is in 4 D. IV above and abridgements in 5 C. III, 6 B. V, 12 B. XXI. Preceded by an alphabetical index (f. 22) and a table of capitula. Preface beg. ' Ex regia ac sanctissima prosapia oriundo'; text, 'Oportet ut latitudo sermonis'. f. 32.

5. Abridged translation of Aristotle's Politics; announced in the preface as consisting of full excerpts and analysis of libb. i, ii, and most of iii, and of libb. vii, viii (of the old arrangement), with briefer summary of the intermediate books. The work is based on the translation of Gulielmus de Moerbeka, and the chief commen. tator cited is S. Thomas (canonized 1323). Incomplete, ending in lib. vii (now iv), cap. 4, 'posset esse preco qui nimis ... ' The preface beg. 'Per dei gratiam intendo sententiam Aristotelis'; text, 'Quia igitur philosophus est de ciuitatc tracturus'. There is another copy in Balliol Coll. MS. CXIVI A at Oxford. f. 145.

6. Tract on the 'enigmata Aristotelis', i. e. seven of the or dark sayings attributed to Pythagoras (see Diogenes Laertius, viii. 17, and S. Jerome adv. Rufinum, iii. 39). Beg. 'Boecius de disciplina scolarium

summum inquit solacium'. f. 174. Vellum; ff. 174. 131/2 in. x 101/4 in. Early XV cent. Gatherings of 8 leaves, with catchwords. Double columns. Written in Englaid. Sec. fol. 'tempore 12' or (f. 33) 1siue monastica. Border-initials, some coarsely illuminated, others flourished in red, blue, and violet Fol. 145 is a notable specimen of the latter with small gold spots added. Old Royal press-mark 'no. 928'; cat. of 1666, f. 17; omitted in CMA.