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Catho tzo latyne unde tzo duytsche.

Accession number
PML 20591
Object title

Catho tzo latyne unde tzo duytsche.

Uniform title
Catonis disticha. Low German & Latin.
Published

[Cologne] : [Johann Guldenschaff], [approximately 1482-1483]

Description

[44] leaves ; 20 cm. (4to)

Notes
Title from caption, leaf [1]/1r.
Printed in Guldenschaff's type 1:110G.
Collation: [1-4⁸ 5-6⁶]: 44 leaves, leaf [6]/6 blank.
Chancery quarto. 1 column, 24 lines. Capital spaces, without guide letters.
Binding
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm.), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Disticha de moribus
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary German rubrication, red initials, paragraph marks, and capital strokes. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Henry Huth (1815-1878), inherited by his son: Alfred Henry Huth (1850-1910), Ex Museo Huthii booklabel (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), Huth sale, Sotheby's, part II, 5 June 1912, lot 1363 to J. & J. Leighton for £40; Charles Fairfax Murray (1849-1919), his sale, Christie's, 10 Dec. 1917, lot 114 purchased by Quaritch (with collation note, rear pastedown, preserved from previous binding) for: J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Dec. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
Classification
Century
Department