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De regimine principum
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Daily: 10 A.M.–5 P.M.
Closed on Tuesdays
1151 Oxford Road
San Marino, CA 91108
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Manuscripts
Official, semi-official, and personal papers of six generations of the Egerton family, particularly those accumulated by Sir Thomas Egerton, 1540?-1617, Baron Ellesmere and Viscount of Brackley, Solicitor-General (1581-1592), Attorney-General (1592-1594), Lord Keeper (1596-1603), and Lord Chancellor (1603-1617); Sir John Egerton, 1st Earl of Bridgewater, 1579-1649, President of the Council of Wales (1631-1649); John Egerton, 2nd Earl of Bridgewater, 1622-1686, Lord Lieutenant of Buckinghamshire (1660-1686); John Egerton, 3rd Earl of Bridgewater, 1646-1701, President of the Board of Trade (1696-1699), First Lord of Admiralty (1699-1701), Speaker of the House of Lords (1697 and 1700); John Scrope Egerton, 1st Duke of Bridgewater, 1681-1745, a Whig courtier under Anne and George I, and Francis, 3rd Duke of Bridgewater, 1736-1803. Approximately 13,000 pieces.
EL 9/H/9
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Manuscripts
ff. 2-92v: [Guillelmus Peraldus, De eruditione principum]: f. 2: [Prologue]: Incipit prologus in librum eruditionis principum, Cum pars illustris ecclesie sit cetus principum et multum ab eis dependeat vita minorum ... f. 2v: [Chapter list]: Incipiunt capituli primi libri, Quod potestas terrena pocius est timenda quam appetenda, i ... Incipit: Incipit liber primus quod potestas terrena pocius est timenda quam appetenda, Cum inordinatus amor potestatis terrene multum noceat ... Explicit: eo quod corpori dominico ad modicum tempus fuit associata. Liber eruditionis principum explicit. Benedictus deus qui incepit et complevit. Amen. f. 93: On the former pastedown, list of authorities, mainly the books of the Bible, but also Bernard, Augustine, Seneca, Isidore and Aristotle with appropriate abbreviations. f. 93v blank.
mssHM 25778