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PJP Catalog: 60.009

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Single Engraved or Printed Leaves
Early Printed Leaves

A PRINTED LEAF FROM DIONYSIUS CATO'S "THE DISTICHA DE MORBIUS."

(Augsburg: [Anton Sorg], 1475). 267 x 197 mm (10 1/2 x 7 3/4"). Single column, 40 lines of text in an open gothic face.

Matted. Capitals touched in red, paragraphs marked with red, marginalia in an early, uninhibited hand. Goff C-292; BMC II, 342. Light browning to edges, otherwise clean and bright.

(CEs462)

Keywords: SINGLE PRINTED LEAVES, EARLY PRINTING, INCUNABULA, TRAVEL, RELIGION, Anton Sorg, Augsburg, Cato, PLEARLY