Moralissimus Catho. cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.

Accession number:

PML 77104

Uniform title:

Catonis disticha.

Published:

Antwerp : Gerard Leeu, 1 March 1485.

Description:

[48] leaves : illus. (woodcut) ; 19.5 x 13 cm (4to)

Credit Line:

Purchased on the Henry S. Morgan Fund, 1981.

Notes:

Title from title page (leaf a1r): Moralissimus Catho. cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.
Colophon (leaf f7v): Hic fine[m] aspice Cathonis viri moralissimi. et in via moru[m] sane gravissimi Cum co[m]mento fratris Roberti de euromodio monachi Clarevallis Tam v[er]boru[m] ornatu limato: tamq[ue] sente[n]ciaru[m] gravitate preclaro: ut ex jovis cerebro videat[ur] emanatu[m]. Impressum in oppido mercuriali Antwerpie[n]si: p[er] me Gerardu[m] leeu: prima die Marcii anno d[omi]ni nostri M cccc lxxxv.
Printed in Leeu's Antwerp types 3:64G, 4:100G, and 5:82G.
Collation: a-f⁸: 48 leaves, leaf f8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery quarto
Woodcut of teacher and pupil (leaf a1r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 18.7 x 12.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: f8 (blank).

Binding:

Modern full calf blind-tooled in a pastiche of an early style over wooden(?) boards (19.5 x 13 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Vellum pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; speckled edges.

Variant Title:

Moralissimus Cato

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No notations in text.

Provenance:

Engelbert-Auguste, duc d'Arenberg (1824-1875), no. 737 (blue spine label) and inventory code B,6 (front pastedown); Eric Hyde Lord Sexton (1902-1980), Incun. 46, booklabels (front pastedown); his sale, Christie's NY, 8 April 1981, lot 6; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased 8 April 1981.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Incunabula

Calf bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books