Accession number
PML 79088
Creator
Phocylides, active 544 B.C.-541 B.C.
Object title
Poema nutheticon Phocylidis greci poete christianissimia Iacob Locher philomuso ad latinos elegos traductum.
Published
[Augsburg] : [Johann Froschauer], [after 5 April 1500]
Description
[10] leaves ; 20.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
Notes
Title from title page, leaf a1r: Poema nutheticon phocylidis greci poete christianissimia Iacob Locher philomuso ad latinos elegos traductum. In quo morum saluberrima documenta adversus septem mortalia vicia, ceterasq[ue] vite sordes adinstar preceptorum decalogico[m] tinentur.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G and 4:130G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13 cm.
Imprint from ISTC.
Printed in Froschauer's types 3:92G and 4:130G.
Signatures: a⁶ b⁴: 10 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Morgan copy leaf dimensions: 19.5 x 13 cm.
Binding
20th-century half parchment with parchment sides over paper boards (20.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves.
Variant title
Title in ISTC: Sententiae sive Moralia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Annotations: 2 early marginal notations, leaf a6v only.
Provenance
Curt F. Bühler (1905-1985), Inc. 25, purchased from Sotheby's London, 30 June 1930, lot 173 for £1.15.0, bequeathed to: Pierpont Morgan Library, bequest of Curt F. Bühler, 1985.
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