Shelfmark
En.4.14(02)
Main entry--uniform title
Catonis disticha
Title
Historia critica Catoniana, : per singulorum seriem consuetam Dionysii Catonis Distichorum ex ordine deducta. Cui praemittuntur Maximi Planudis Metaphrasis Graeca, cum castigationibus Josephi Scaligeri in eamdem perpetuis : Itemque Desiderii Erasmi Concinna expositio. Adnexae sunt clarissimorum virorum BarthI, OpitI, DaumI, WachI, BoxhornI, Cannegieteri, WithofI, & Arntzeniorum fratrum, Animadversiones selectae. Addita quoque ad calcem Distichorum cuique Nova paraphrasis.
Publication, distribution, etc.
Amstelædami, : Apud Franciscum Houttuyn, , MDCCLIX. [1759]
Physical description
[2], VIII, 640, [24] p., 1 leaf of plates : ill. ; 8vo.
Language
Text includes Planudes' version of the Disticha in Greek.
Note
Signatures: pi2(-pi2) *4 A-2S8 2T4.
Note
Includes index and emendata at end.
Note
The form of the names listed towards the end of the title has been taken from the index.
Note
With half title page: "Historia critica Catoniana." with lines of verse on verso: "Pictura loquens."
Note
Title page printed in red and black; woodcut head- and tail-pieces.
Note
The engraved frontispiece illustration is no. 6 of series 1-6 appearing in "Dyonisii Catonis Disticha", Amsterdam, 1759; signed: "S. Fokke".
Citation/references note
BM, 35:514
Citation/references note
Mansell, 100:148
Provenance
Armorial stamp on binding: arms of city of Haarlem, with its motto: Vicit vim virtus.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate: Hugh Cecil, Earl of Lonsdale. I.e. Hugh Cecil Lowther, fifth earl of Lonsdale (1857-1944).
Provenance
Pencil inscription on front flyleaf: J. Cowell or Howell.
Binding
Contemporary Dutch stiff vellum; gold tooled double fillet frame with fleurons at corners and armorial device as centrepiece; gold tooled double fillet and lozenge stamp on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooling; red and black speckled edges; traces of book ties.
Copy-specific note
Bound with: Dionysii Catonis Disticha de moribus ad filium.
Subject
Aphorisms and apothegms Early works to 1800.
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Fokke, Simon, 1712 - 1784 engraver.
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Houttuyn, Frans, 1719 - 1765 printer.
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Lonsdale, Hugh Cecil Lowther, 1857 - 1944 Earl of, former owner.
Added entry--place
Netherlands Amsterdam.
Language code
lat grc
Identifier
B32453