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The manuscript Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France, it. 557 is an interesting 15th-century miscellany that has been the subject of a number of significant structural philological studies. However, the final section of the manuscript contains a vernacular edition of Disticha Catonis [The Distichs of Cato], most likely of Florentine origins, which to date has been overlooked by scholars, apart from some references in Tommaseo-Bellini’s dictionary citations, whose exact sources remain unclear. The article complements yet another study which I have conducted on the manuscript and offers an analysis and a critical edition of the vernacular work