Accession number
PML 27326
Object title
Katho moralissimus.
Uniform title
Catonis disticha. Latin & German.
Published
[Vienna] : [Johann Winterburg], [approximately 1499].
Description
[18] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased in 1930.
Notes
Title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Winterburg's types 1:78G, 2:270G, and 5:104G.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁴: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on half-title page, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14.5 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Winterburg's types 1:78G, 2:270G, and 5:104G.
Signatures: a⁸ b⁶ c⁴: 18 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Woodcut on half-title page, leaf a1r.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 14.5 cm.
Binding
19th-century full red goatskin over paper boards (21 x 15 cm), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.
Variant title
Disticha de moribus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Jacques Rosenthal (Munich), cat. 91 (1929), no. 21; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Lathrop C. Harper, March 1930.
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