Ffeil NLW MS 22872C [RESTRICTED ACCESS]. - Egidius Romanus' De Regimine Principum,

There are pentrials of 16 cent., by two hands, in English on ff. 73, 74, 120 verso (macaronic verse: 'Ludo ludys for to playe / tota deie all this daye / supare scannome upone a benghe / poulcra femynay with a fare wenche') and 262 verso, and an erased 7-line inscription at the foot of f. 262 verso, otherwise exceptionally clean. On the turn-in of the upper cover, in pencil, 'Sir H. Cope's Library'. Listed as no. 15 in the library of the Reverend Sir William [Henry] Cope, Bart, of Bramshill House, Hampshire, in HMC, Third Report (1872), p. 243. The Bramshill manuscripts may have included survivors of the collection of Sir Walter Cope (DNB), see A. G. Watson, 'The manuscript collection of Sir Walter Cope (d. 1614)', Bodleian Library Record, 12 (1987), pp. 262-97: his manuscripts, like the present one, contain 'almost no evidence of post- medieval use' and no trace of his hand; notice also the comment on Cope's medieval-style bindings on p. 270. Sold at the Bramshill sale, Sotheby's, 4 March 1913, lot 2.