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Disticha de moribus.

Accession number
PML 2992
Object title

Disticha de moribus.

Uniform title
Catonis disticha.
Published

[The Netherlands] : [Prototypography], [approximately 1465-1480]

Description

4 fragments of 2 leaves ; 17 cm

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, by 1908.
Notes
Title and imprint from ISTC.
GW dates as: not before 1465, not after 1480. Previously attributed to [Utrecht?: Printer of the Speculum (perhaps Laurens Koster), about 1470-1471].
Printed in type 5:123/124G.
Collation unknown.
PML copy on vellum. 4 fragments of 2 leaves.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 1) 16.4 x 3 cm; 2) 17 x 4 cm; 3) 12 x 5 cm; 4) 11 x 4.5 cm.
Binding
Not bound, mounted to modern paper support.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Samuel Sotheby (1771-1842) and Samuel Leigh Sotheby (1805-1861), the leaves were reproduced in Samuel Leigh Sotheby's Principia Typographica, with the originals included in the author's extra-illustrated copy (PML 3776-85), which was purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1908.
Classification
Century
Department