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590
Pirages
McMinnville, Oregon
Dec. '03 Cat. 49 #114
$95.00

John of Wales (Johannes Galleneis) d. 1303.
Summa Collationum, sive Communiloquium
Spain: ca. 1400 MSS on vellum
14x9 1/2"

2 columns, 48 lines. Written in dark brown ink.
Regular Gothic book hand in Latin on vellum.
Heading (a single number or letter at the top of
each column) in blue c red penwork or red c purple
penwork, capitals touched in yellow, paragraph
marks in red or blue, rubrics in red. Foliaiton
in red.

The work is an interesting guide to conduct in every
station in life. It is notable (+ little known) fact
that this ed. (strassburg, G. Husner) 1489. HC 7444)
contains the 1st purely symbolic consideration of
chess (fol c^6 recto)

The work is a collection of extracts intended to
provide moral lessons + examples for the edification
of men in all walks of life. It was intended as an
aid to preachers.

text 1:3:7

headings

recto III D xxvij
verso I P 19(in pencil)

simple uncrossed tironian et appears and as
frequently et is written out.

Communiloquium 1.3 contains 20 chapters of varying
length, on the personal virtues of princes

1.3.7-John justifies the need for the prince to be
illuminated by knowledge. His reason is that the prince
will then be able to institute laws conforming to the
devine law.

The ruler ("princeps")