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Cato: Disticha de moribus.

Accession number
PML 75097
Object title

Cato: Disticha de moribus.

Uniform title
Catonis disticha.
Published

Imprime a Paris : par maistre Pierre Le Dru, [approximately 1499]

Description

[8] leaves ; 13.5 cm (8vo)

Credit line
Purchased on the Fellows Fund and as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1976.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf A8v: Imprime a Paris par Maistre pierre le dru demourant en al rue des maturins a lenseigne de cornet.
Printed in Le Dru's types 2:65G and 1:ca.120G.
Signatures: A⁸: 8 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery octavo.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 13.2 x 8.5 cm.
Binding
Early 20th-century blue paper-covered boards (13.5 x 9.5 cm). Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: Signatures A3 and A4 added in manuscript. Contemporary underlining sporadically throughout text. Marginal notation "Memento huius" next to poem "Dies vestros ne perdatis," leaf A8v.
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Victoria Book Shop on the Fellows Fund and as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, Dec. 1976.
Classification
Century
Department