Bod-Inc: C-136
Cato, Dionysius
Cato: Disticha de moribus [German and Latin].
Analysis of Content
a2r [Epistola Catonis and Breves sententiae.] See C‑128.
a2r [Epistola Catonis and Breves sententiae. German.] Recension A; see Zatočil 328-9. Friedrich Zarncke, Der deutsche Cato. Geschichte der deutschen Übersetzungen der im Mittelalter unter dem Namen Cato bekannten Distichen (Leipzig, 1852), 29, lines 35-8 and Zatočil 94-6. German rhymed couplets alternate with two lines of Latin prose.
a3r [Disticha Catonis.] See C‑127.
a3v [Disticha Catonis. German.] Incipit: ‘Wann ein got ymmer ist gewesen'. Recension A (the oldest complete translation), partly edited by Zarncke, 76-8. Zatočil 96-115. German rhymed couplets alternate with Latin distichs; see VL I cols 1192-6 and Henkel, Schultexte, 228-31.
Imprint
Imprint: [Augsburg: Johann Schönsperger, c.1495]. 4°.
Collation
Collation: a–c6.
Illustrations: Accipies woodcut on a1r; see Schreiber–Heitz no. 22; woodcut initials.
References
ISTC: ic00317640
GW: GW 6331;
Proctor: Pr 1815;
Others: Schreiber V 3700; Sheppard 1296; Worstbrock, Antikerezeption, no. 63.
LCN: 14836581
Copies
Copy number: C-136(1)
Wanting the blank leaf c6.
Binding: Limp parchment wrappers; endpapers watermarked with an imperial eagle.
Size: 201 × 145 × 4 mm.
Size of leaf: 197 × 138 mm.
On b4v a reference to Augustine, Confessiones book 5, in an early hand.
Paragraph marks are supplied in red; red capital strokes.
Provenance: Inscription on front endleaf: ‘M°. Haas. 1861'. Purchased in 1864 for £1. 10. 0; see Invoice Book (1862-4, Library Records d. 430).
SHELFMARK: Auct. 5Q 6.101.
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