Author
Cato, Dionysius
Title
Disticha de moribus. Comm: Philippus de Bergamo, Robertus de Euremodio.
Varying form of title
Catho moralizatus alias Speculum regiminis quo ad vtriusq[ue] hominis reformationem
Varying form of title
Catho moralizatus
Varying form of title
Speculum regiminis quo ad vtriusq[ue] hominis reformationem
Varying form of title
Speculum regiminis quo ad vtriusque hominis reformationem
Varying form of title
Speculum regiminis quo ad utriusque hominis reformationem
Imprint
Lyon: Jean de Vingle, 28 Jan. 1497/98
Physical description
274 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 240 x 170 mm (4to)
Note
Title and imprint from ISTC.
Note
Title on a1r: "Catho moralizatus alias Speculum regiminis quo ad vtriusq[ue] hominis reformationem.".
Note
Colophon on leaf L7r: "Impressum Lugduni per Iohannem de Uingle. Anno domini. D. CCCC.xcvij. die xxviij. Ianuarij.".
Note
Rather than a commentary on the Disticha Catonis this text is an original work, Speculum regiminis, by Philippus de Bergamo with additions by Robertus de Euremodio (ISTC, citing Goff and Hillard).
Note
The year of printing is probably 1497 because the 28 Jan. 1498 was a Sunday (ISTC, citing CIBN and Hillard).
Note
Collation: a-c8 d10 e-z8 A-L8.
Note
With three woodcut illustrations, on leaves a2v (full page), e1r (22 lines high), and r3r (22 lines high), and woodcut initials.
Note
Contents include: Philippus de Bergamo/Robertus de Euremodio?, Speculum regiminis [Commentary on the Epistola Catonis]; Philippus de Bergamo/Robertus de Euremodio?, Speculum regiminis [Commentary on the Breves Sententiæ]; Philippus de Bergamo/Robertus de Euremodio?: Speculum regiminis [Commentary on the Disticha Catonis]; Philippus de Bergamo/Robertus de Euremodio?, Disticha Catonis with commentary. A full list of contents is given in Bod-Inc: C-127: http://incunables.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/record/C-127.
Note
Final leaf blank. Leaf a2 mis-signed a3. Leaf v2 mis-signed v3.
Citation/references note
ISTC, ic00295000
Citation/references note
Bod-Inc, C-127
Citation/references note
GW, 6280
Citation/references note
CLC, C770
Citation/references note
David G. Selwyn, Edmund Geste and his books (London, 2017), P25
Provenance
Identified by David Selwyn as having belonged to Edmund Guest (1514?-1577), with pressmark M45 (or possibly M18, M15, or M48). Selwyn notes that the title on the fore-edge is in a hand "not very characteristic" of Guest.
Provenance
Salisbury Cathedral Library bookplate (19th century) with 13th-century Dean and Chapter seal and inscription “Sarum Cathedral Library.”
Binding
19th-century brown half-calf; boards covered with marbled paper; paper boards; blind rolls on boards; spine with four flat raised bands, gilt fillets, and blind rolls; head-edge and tail-edge stained red; title in ink on fore-edge; pressmark M45 [?] on fore-edge.
Subject
Morality Early works to 1800.
Added entry--name
Filippo, da Bergamo, active 14th century author.
Added entry--name
Euremodio, Robertus de author.
Added entry--name
Vingle, Jean de, active 1493-1512 printer.
Added entry--name
Guest, Edmund, 1514?-1577 former owner.
Added entry--place
France Lyon.
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UKSbSC
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