Cato's Disticha de moribus (trans. Caxton): Glasgow, University Library, Hunterian Bv.2.16
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 262 mm x 189 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Imperfect. Wanting the blank leaf i10.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: ?
- Summary: 'Initials supplied in red in gatherings d-f and i; in the same gatherings
capital strokes are supplied in red at the beginning of each line of the Latin
disticha; paragraph marks in red precede the incipits of liber secundus (e3r) and
liber tertius (f8v).' See d5v-d6r.
- Hand: Initials
- Scope:
Hand decoration:
None.
Additions:
'Fairly frequent pointing hands and underlining; one “nota” mark on g7r; early foliation “3”-“43” in black ink visible from a3-f3; reference to “Ames No.19” on first front flyleaf.'
Binding Description:
'England, 18th-century gold-tooled red morocco; covers decorated with a border built up of separate tools depicting a single flower in an urn within an architectural arch, the arch surmounted by a globe (for the same border see BMC XI, 122, IB. 55040); gold-tooled spine with two green leather title labels and a “Gothic window” design in the remaining four compartments; dark blue pastedowns; gilt-edged leaves; dark green silk bookmark. Size: 268 x 201 mm.'
Accompanying Material:
None.
History:
- Provenance:
- Francis Layton (d.1661) of Yorkshire, Keeper of the Jewel House to Charles I
- Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley
- James West (1703-1772)
- John Ratcliffe (1707-1776), book collector
- William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist
- Acquisition: University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807
Image Gallery:
Works referred:
- University of Glasgow, Glasgow Incunabula Project
(http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/incunabula/),
Sp Coll
Hunterian Bv.2.16
- University of Glasgow, Library Cagalogue (http://www.gla.ac.uk/services/library/),
Catonis disticha. English
Administration Information:
- The image was supplied by Lotte Hellinga and scanned by Caroline Bardell and Jamil
Teja (2014).
All the information is quoted from Glasgow Incunabula Project entry.
Ed. by TK (June 2015).