- Source: Auctores octo morales
The Auctores octo morales (Eight Moral Authors) was a collection of Latin textbooks, of an elementary standard, that was used for pedagogy in the Middle Ages in Europe. It was printed in many editions, from the end of the fifteenth century. At that time it became standardised as:
Distichs of Cato
Eclogue of Theodulus
Facetus: Liber Faceti docens mores iuvenum (Also believed to be by Cato of the Distichs)
De contemptu mundi
Liber Floretus
Matthew of Vendôme, Tobias
Alan of Lille, Doctrinale altum parabolarum
Aesop, version attributed to Gualterus Anglicus (online text).
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External links
Catalogue entry for Auctores Octo cum Commentario of 1494does not work
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