Ker Fragment

1663: Poggius, De infelicitate principum

Ker Number: 
1663
Ker Host Volume: 
Fragment Title: 
De infelicitate principum

Textual Information

Subject: 
Moral philosophy
Author of work: 
Poggius

Palaeography

Date of production: 
s. xv

Further Information

Notes: 

See no. 1891. Two other fragments of this manuscript are Oxford: Merton College, MS. E.3.35 nos. 3, 4, 5. Further fragments are London: British Library, MS. Harl. 5915, fol. 16, another in private hands: see D. Rundle, ‘The scribe Thomas Candour and the making of Poggio Bracciolini’s English reputation’, English Manuscript Studies, xii (2005), appendix no. 15. The scribe, Thomas Candour, was identified by Prof. A. C. de la Mare in MSS at Oxford, p. 96.

Bibliography: 

D. Rundle, ‘The scribe Thomas Candour and the making of Poggio Bracciolini’s English reputation’, English Manuscript Studies, xii (2005), pp. 1–25.

Dimensions

Number of Folios: 
2
Number of Lines: 
26
Number of columns: 
1