From the time of its composition (c.1280) for Philip the Fair of
France until the early sixteenth century, Giles of Rome's mirror of
princes, the De regimine principum, was read by both lay and
clerical readers in the original Latin and in several vernacular
translations, and served as model or source for several works of
princely advice. This study examines the relationship between this
didactic political text and its audience by focusing on the textual
and material aspects of the surviving manuscript copies, as well as
on the evidence of ownership and use found in them and in
documentary and literary sources. Briggs argues that lay readers
used De regimine for several purposes, including as an educational
treatise and military manual, whereas clerics, who often first came
into contact with it at university, glossed, constructed apparatus
for, and modified the text to suit their needs in their later
professional lives.
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