Moralissimus Catho. cu[m] elegantissimo co[m]mento.
possibly Dionysius Cato (fl.3rd/4th century AD)
Category
Books
Date
1485
Materials
Place of origin
Antwerp
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3069190
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48] leaves : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 4to. Running number: 7075. Wanting final blank leaf f8. Fore-edge of leaf a1 torn off, repaired with blank paper. Without initials or rubrication. Manuscript list of hierarchy of angels written in a sixteenth-century hand on leaf a1v: "Noue[m] ordines angeloru[m]. …". Manuscript marginal notes in English written in an untidy sixteenth or seventeenth-century hand on leaves a2r, a3v-a8v and b2r. Provenance: sixteenth-century[?] manuscript cipher device (unreadable) on title page. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Binding: eighteenth-century full sprinkled calf; sewn on three supports; five raised bands (two are false bands); double gilt fillet border, double and single gilt fillet panel with gilt floral cornerpieces; blind semi-circular roll pattern on board edges and on turn-ins; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title 'CATO 1485'; red sprinkled bookblock edges; comb and swirl pattern marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
possibly Dionysius Cato (fl.3rd/4th century AD), author possibly Marcus Porcius Cato (234-149 BC), author Robertus de Euremodio, commentator Gerard Leeu (ca. 1445-1493), printer