Beinecke MS 348               Germany [?], s.XV^^ex
Giovanni Gioviano Pontano, De principe

ff. 1r-11v de regimine principum breuis et utilis tractatus.  Publius
Cornelius Scipio dux alfonse cui post ex virtute affricanus fuit cognomen...
breui sequentur alij quos futuros [erased: arbitros] arbitror non inutiles.  f.
12r-v blank, except for ink tracing and embellishment of watermark

     Printed by Mathias Moravus in Naples in 1490 (Hain-Copinger 13256), and
often thereafter.

     Paper (watermarks:  similar in design to Briquet Monts 11837-38), ff.
12, 278 x 210 (204 x 125) mm.  Written in 40 long lines; frame-ruled in lead.
     Single gathering of twelve leaves.
     Written by two scribes in different styles of a running hand.  Scribe
1:  ff. 1r-8v, 10v-11v; Scribe 2:  ff. 9r-10v.
     Red added to opening initial on f. 1r; heading in red.
     Disbound; in pamphlet case.

Written possibly in Germany in the late 15th century to judge from the
watermarks; early provenance unknown.  Purchased from C. A. Stonehill in 1965
as the gift of Sara C. Chisholm.

Barbara A. Shailor