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Moralissimus Cato cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.

Title
Moralissimus Cato cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.
Publication
Impressum Basilee ... : [Johannes Amerbach], decimaquarta die Junij, anno Domini, 1486.

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Additional Authors
  • Euremodio, Robertus de.
  • Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513.
  • Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C.
Description
[96] p.; 21 cm. (4to)
Subjects
Genre/Form
Incunabula – Switzerland – Basel.
Note
  • Text begins (leaf a2r): Incipit liber de doctrina Catonis ampliatus per sermones rhetoricos [et] morales, per fratrem Robertu[m] de Euremodio monachum Clareuallis.
  • Colophon (leaf f7v): Hic finem aspice Catonis viri moralissimi ...
  • Attribution to Cato, the Censor, is spurious; later attribution to "Dionysius Cato" based on a falsification by Simeo Bosius. Cf. GW, VI, col. 265.
  • Place and date of printing from colophon, where year is expressed in Roman numerals: ... anno Domini, M cccc.lxxx vi.
  • Name of printer from BM: "Amerbach presented 'tres Catones' to the Basel Charterhouse in 1486."
  • "Seitengetreuer Nachdruck von Nr. 6282 [Antwerp: Gerard Leeu, 1 Mar. 1485]"--GW.
  • Signatures: a-f⁸.
  • Copinger gives no. of leaves as 49, including 2 blanks.
  • Ornamental initial G (leaf a2r); capital spaces, with guide letters, on leaves a2v and a4r.
  • Illustrations: 1 print (on t.p.) : woodcut ; image 98 x 54 mm. Copy of a cut used on t.p. of the Antwerp, 1485 ed. Depicts Cato and a pupil.
Indexed In (note)
  • Pellechet
  • BM 15th cent.
  • Hain-Copinger
  • GW
  • Goff
Call Number
*KB 1486 00-272
OCLC
NYPG00-B8751
Title
Moralissimus Cato cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.
Imprint
Impressum Basilee ... : [Johannes Amerbach], decimaquarta die Junij, anno Domini, 1486.
Indexed In:
Pellechet, 3424
BM 15th cent., III, p. 748 (IA.37291)
Hain-Copinger 4719*
GW 6284
Goff C-297
Local Note
Leaf f8, blank, wanting.
Binding: 19th century vellum, from an early ms. glossed Latin Bible; black morocco spine labels, gilt.
Provenance: Walter Goldwater (bookplate).
Modern ms. inscription on front pastedown.
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Local Subject
Goldwater, Walter Provenance.
Added Author
Euremodio, Robertus de.
Amerbach, Johannes, 1441?-1513. Printer
Cato, Marcus Porcius, 234 B.C.-149 B.C. Attributed name
Goldwater, Walter. Former owner
Research Call Number
*KB 1486 00-272
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