Pub. Terentii Comoediae nunc primum italicis versibus redditae cum personarum figuris aeri accurate incisis ex MS. codice Bibliothecae Vaticanae.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1736
Materials
Place of origin
Urbino
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3022063
Summary
Bibliographic description
xxiii, [1], 324 p. : ill. ; fol. Running number: 4888. Pagination: xxiv, 324 p. Leaf Mm2 (i.e. p. 275-276, containing the plate of the masks of Hecyra) is mis-bound between Mm3 and Mm4. Provenance: manuscript inscription on front fly-leaf: "M. NB. The plate of masks in Hecyra is put after the prologue" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]. Binding: eighteenth-century mottled calf; gilt roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine, with gilt title on brown goatskin label and place of publication 'Urbini' lettered directly onto foot of spine. Red burnished edges.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Niccolò Forteguerri (c.1674-1735) , editor Daniel Heinsius (1580-1655), editor Francesco Faraone Aquila (1676-1740), engraver (printmaker) Filippo Barigioni (1690-1753), artist Domenico Miserotti, engraver (printmaker) Paolo Posi (1708-1776), engraver (printmaker) Giovanni Battista Sintes (1680-1760), engraver (printmaker)