P. Terentii Afri poetae lepidissimi, Comoediae, : Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Hecyra, Phormio, ex emendatissimis ac fide dignissimis codicibus summa diligentia castigatae, versibus in suas dimensiones restitutis, ac variis lectionibus in margine appositis. Elenchum interpretum, qui in has comoedias doctè simul & eruditè scripserunt, proxima subinde pagina demonstrabit. Quid vltra superiores omneis editiones, huic nostrae debeant cupidi Terentianarum comoediarum lectores, auersa pagina indicabit. Omnium quae in his interpretum commentariis explicantur, index locupletissimus.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1552
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3005881
Summary
Bibliographic description
[4], 776, [40] p. : ill. (woodcuts) ; fol. Running number: 4846. Imperfect: wanting final [40] p. Title page and following leaf (pi1 and 2) repaired along gutter margin and head. Bound in 6 volumes, one play per volume. Each volume is interleaved with blank leaves. The blanks are either totally blank, ruled in pencil but otherwise blank, or contain hand-written lists of Latin phrases taken from the plays with a parallel English translation. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf of vol. 1: "M. 6 vol." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Manuscript price in pencil on front fly-leaf of vol. 1: "1-11-6". Manuscript ownership inscription on title page has been erased, the first word reads "Charles". Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled sprinkled calf; double fillet border; panel of double and single fillets and roll pattern, with cornerpiece stamps; gilt roll pattern on board edges; spines with gilt title on brown goatskin label and gilt vol. number stamped directly, spines otherwise plain. Red sprinkled edges.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536), editor António de Gouveia (1505-1566), author Philipp Schwarzerd called Melanchthon (1497-1560), author Joseph Juste Scaliger (1540-1609), author Jodocus Willich (1501 - 1552), author