[L' informacion des roys et des princes]
Subtitle: Liure quart.
Contributors: Golein, Jean, 1320-1403.; Rogers, Bruce, 1870-1957, former owner.; Pforzheimer Bruce Rogers Collection (Library of Congress); Library of Congress.
Published: 1400
Language: fro
Number of pages: 16
Subjects: Justice (Philosophy); Law and ethics.; Due process of law.; Manuscripts, French -- Washington (D.C.); France -- Kings and rulers.
Other titles: Livre de l'information des princes; Information des princes
Notes: In late Old French (archaic orthography copied by scribe from older ms.?); the numerous Latin quotations, mostly biblical, are followed by French translations.
Ms.
Sixteen leaves (in portfolio) detached from a de luxe ms. copy of what is thought to be the mid-14th cent. translation by Jean Golein of De informatione principum, a work in four books by an anonymous Dominican. The fourth book, here incompletely (cf. Contents below) preserved, concerns justice.
Bracketed title from another ms. thought similar.
The leaves, numbered Cxlv-Cxlvj, Cxlix, Clii-Clxiiij, with text in two 37-line columns, carry red  headers "Liure" on verso and "Quart" on recto. Catchwords on versos of leaves 152 and 160. Leaves 149 and 153 are a false bifolium created by a gutter guard, no doubt in recent centuries. Missing at end ca. 4 more leaves? (in several more fully preserved copies, the Informacion is followed by texts from Cicero, thus the whole codex could have had up to 180-190 leaves).
Written in formal cursive, ca. 170 words per column, by one scribe, probably in northern France (in the area of Pas-de-Calais).
Chapters captioned in red and numbered in lowercase roman;  each starts with a 2-line lombardic initial of laid gold on blue or blue-and magenta ground, with attached raceme-type flourishes. One-line laid-gold paragraphs in blue or blue/magenta fields; line fillers in same style. Fully ruled in red.
Formerly owned by Bruce Rogers.
Table of contents: value: (Livre 4) [ch.] 5. Comment les iuges doiuent estre de bonne vie; value: 6. Comment le iugement doit estre auctentique; value: 7. Comment le iugement doit estre droit sans distortion; value: 8. Comment iugement doit estre paisible sans perturbation (incompl.); value: (ch. 9-11 wanting); value: 12. Que en iugement doit estre vraie entention; value: 13. Comment iugement est peruerti par paour (incompl.); value: (ch. 14-19 wanting); value: 20. Comment iustice est tres neccessaire aux princes; value: 21. De la iustice qui est deue a dieu; value: 22. De la iustice que len doit auoir en soy mesmes [et] tresbien la  garder; value: 23. De iustice et paix [et] premierement de la communitatiue; value: 24. De la iustice vindicatiue; value: 25. Co[mment] negligence est a contre garder; value: 26. Comment cruauste fait moult a detester; value: 27. Comment leffect de clemence ne eneruenrie[n] la vertu de Justice; value: 28. Comment Justice doit estre faicte tost [et] sanz dilation; value: 29. De la iustice distributiue; value: 30. De la iustice retributiue (incompl.)  (text breaks off abruptly at end of f. 164vb).