<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>Full title:</b> L'orloge des Princes, œuvre de tres excellente &amp; admirable doctrine, pour les graves sentences, &amp; rares hystoires, qui y sont contenues, composé en Espaignol, par tresillustre seigneur Don Anthonio di Guevara, evesque de Mondognetto, conseiller &amp; croniqueur de l'Empereur Charles cinquiesme. Traduict en Francoys, &amp; dedié au Roy tres-chrestien Henry deuxiesme de ce nom. </span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"> 12mo. f. [1] (blank), [11], 190, 201-423, [1] (blank). f. 87 called 79, 130 called 103, 191 called 201, 343 called 323, 418 called 410, 420 called 412. Contemporary French calf. The binding is similar to, but superior to, Goldschmit 220, dated 1553. Goldschmidt notes on the allegorical central tool: "Like many other motifs of book decoration, it may perhaps have originated as a personal device of some French royal personage and then become a more or less generally used decorative tool." Gilt with monogram "WM.” Gilded edges with manuscript title. Manuscript ex-libris of the Earl of Westmorland (1856), and initialed purchase note (1894).</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;">French translation of the Libro aureo (see Bib# 4911591/Fr# 239 in this collection), a fictitious attribution of this moralizing work to the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius (second century AD), buttressed by Guevara’s claim to have translated it from a manuscript in Greek – a language he could not read – in the Florentine library of Cosimo de’ Medici. See H. M. Adams, Catalogue of Books Printed on the Continent of Europe, 1501-1600, in Cambridge Libraries. 2 vols. Cambridge, 1967, G1483. </span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br /></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0.0001pt;text-align:justify;line-height:normal;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size:11.5pt;font-family:Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/permalink/01JHU_INST/1lu78g9/alma991039109879707861" rel="nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a></span></span></p>