Accession number:
PML 47566.1
Uniform title:
Catonis disticha.
Published:
Lvgdvni : apud Seb. Gryphivm, 1533.
Credit:
Purchased in 1956.
Description:
[64] leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)
Notes:
Text in Latin and Greek.
Signatures: a-h⁸.
Binding:
16th-century Lyonnaise blind- and gilt-tooled brown calf, with silver-tooled arms of Le Court in 2 concentric circles (typical Lyonnaise); rebacked with pastedowns and endleaves renewed.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Multiple inscriptions, visible but not legible under UV (title page). Unidentified inscription: "satie graciae agoereu[m] poutier iurus" (rear leaf verso).
Provenance:
Benoît le Court (d. 1559), armorial binding; L.T. Simon D.T., oval stamp (title page); Ve[??]mo, blue ink signature or oval stamp (title page verso); unidentified shelf mark(?): "XI." in cartouche (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from G.G. Heilbrun, March 1956.
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