Accession number:
PML 17506
Uniform title:
Disticha de moribus. English.
Published:
Londoni : ex officina Richardi Grafconi [sic; i.e. Graftoni] clarissimo principi D. Edouardo typographi. Cum priuilegio ad imprimendum solum, [1545] .
Description:
[216] leaves ; 10 cm.
Credit:
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan; 1911,
Notes:
A translation, by Robert Burrant, of Catonis disticha, which are not in fact by Cato.
Includes, besides the Catonis disticha, precepts from Ausonius, D.M. Ludus septem sapientum; and the precepts called Mimi Publiani -- STC
"Sage and prudente saiynges [sic] of the seauen [sic] wyse men" and "Wyse saiynges and prety tauntes of Puplius" have separate divisional title pages; and are signed ²A-P⁸.
Collation: A-M⁸ [-M8], A- D⁸ [-D6] E-P⁸ ( the missing two leaves were probably blanks).
Only copy listed in ESTC
Binding:
Brown calf, gilt; with central emblem of the golden fleece (not from the collection of Baron Longepierre); in case.
Inscriptions/Markings:
Occasional marginal notations, including two unidentified inscriptions on title page (one obliterated by trimmimg).
Provenance:
Unknown English collector (Sotheby's sale, 1902); from the collection of Pierpont Morgan.
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