Cato's Disticha de moribus (trans. Caxton): London, British Library, C.10.b.8 = IB.55083
Physical Description:
Object Description:
Form: Codex
Material: Paper
Size: 255 mm x 184 mm (dimensions of all - size of leaves)
Collation:
- Without blanks.
Rubrication and decorated initials:
- Number of hands: 2
- Summary:
'The preliminary quire and quire f only are rubricated by different hands; the uniformity of the manuscript
notes shows that these quires formed part of the present copy from an early date'. (BMC XI, 150)
- Hand: Initials
- Scope:
Hand decoration:
None.
Additions:
'The 209 sections [...] have been numbered in the margin 1-225 (60 follows directly after 51 and 70 after 61) in a late 16th- or early 17th-century hand in which numerous annotations have been made. The words "purgatorye" and "shryuen" on c1b have been struck through, and the latter has been altered to "repent" in the hand of this annotator" (BMC XI, 150)
Binding Description:
'Bound in the private bindery of King George III, in gold-tooled straight-grain red morocco, with his arms'. (BMC XI, 151)
Accompanying Material:
None.
History:
- Provenance:
- Possibly Thomas Dy[...], 16th century (sig. a2r).
- Richard Grantte, of Danbury, Essex, 16th century (sig. b8r).
- Possibly Edward Dan[...], 16th century (sug. e1r).
- John Ratcliffe, before 1776 (DeR 16.1 is wrong, see BMC 151).
- G. Nicol for King George II, 1773 (John Ratcliffe's sale, March 1776, lot 1016).
Administration Information:
- Images scanned and initial data added by Caroline Bardell and Jamil Teja on 27/01/14; updated by Satoko Tokunaga on 14/08/14.
Image Gallery:
Works referred:
Administration Information:
Images are supplied by Lotte Hellinga and scanned by CB and JT (2014).
All the information are quoted from BMC XI with kind permission by the editor.
Ed. by ST and TK (2014/15)