[Disticha de moribus].

Accession number: 
PML 18404
Uniform title: 
Catonis disticha.
Published: 
Augsburg : [Anton Sorg], 2 November 1475.
Description: 
[484] leaves ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes: 

CIBN C-160 reports variants.
Collation: [1-5¹⁰ 6⁶; 7-48¹⁰ 49⁸]: 484 leaves.
Colophon (leaf [49]/8r): Ob prime omnium rerum cause preconia: militantisq[ue] essclesie erudit[i]o[n]e[m]/ Cathonis magni autoris moralissimi ethica pergnantissima/ torque[n]do Auguste imposita. In qua facultatu[m] pluriu[m] gaza recondita est uberrima. Ex qua siquide[m] quisquis opusculi p[re]sentis lector attent[us]/ ex cerp[er]e amplissime fructificat[i]o[n]is palmites poterit: summi ac immortalis opificis presidio finit felici[us] Incarnat[i]o[n]is saluberrime anno .M.CCCC.lxxv: die crastina festi omnium sanctorum. Laus sup[er]no artifici mundum pugillo continenti eiusq[ue] gloriose ac intermerate genitrici.
On Philippus de Bergamo, see Verfasserlexikon (1978) VII: 597-98.
Paper format: Chancery folio
PML copy leaf dimensions: (29.8 x 20.8 cm), témoin: 31 x 21 cm (leaf [27]/7).
Printed in Sorg's type 1:103G.
Rather than a commentary on the Disticha Catonis this text is an original work, Speculum regiminis, by Philippus de Bergamo with additions by Robertus de Euremodio (cf. Goff, Hillard, and CIBN).
Title from ISTC.

Binding: 
18th-century gilt-stamped diced calf over paper boards (31 x 21.5 cm), sewn on 5 bands by Roger Payne; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; marbled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, red lombards, running headlines, capital strokes, and underlining. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, 2 sets: 1 set seemingly in rubricator's red, the other is underlined in red with capital strokes. Manuscript alpha-numeric quire signatures, in lower and upper corners of rectos. Binding note: "£1.f1.2. Roger Payne bound this copy" (front fly leaf verso)

Provenance: 
Unidentified monastic inscription, abraded (leaf [1]/1r); Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), signature and purchase inscription: "Ed: Pr: Liv: Cap: Color: 14L: 14J:= Apr: 13th 1792" and "White's sale" (second front fly leaf recto) and dated June 12th 1806 (rear fly leaf recto), passed to John Edmund Severne (1826-1899); his sale, Sotheby's, 11 Jan. 1886, lot 615 sold for £1.10; Pierpont Morgan, purchased from J. Pearson & Co., 1908.
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