M. AccI Plauti Comoediae / ex recognitione Jani Gruteri; qui bonâ fide contulit cum MSS. Palatinis. Accedunt commentarij Fridrici Taubmanni auctiores; item indices rerum & verborum necessarii.
Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254 - 184 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1621
Materials
Place of origin
Wittenberg
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3045250
Summary
Bibliographic description
[52], 1557 [i.e. 1537], [125] p. ; 4to. Running number: 4781. Provenance: manuscript inscriptions on third front fly-leaf: "M." [i.e. catalogue code of John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742)]; "Genyt Holt"; and school prize inscription "Honesto ac optima indolis adolescenti, Henrico Holtio, quod in prima classe specimina dederit egregi[a]e seduliatis; simul ut ipse majori impetu ferretur ad vera laudem; & alii hoc exemplo gloria[e] accenderentur, librium hunc pr[a]emii nomine dederunt Ampliss. & Gravissimi Coss. ac Scholarucha[e] Zuollani, examine autumnali, anni M DC LXI. [signed] Joh. Coccius Rector S.Z.". [i.e. Johannes Coccius (d. 1678), rector of the Latin school in Zwolle ("Rector Scholae Zuollanae") -- cf. DBNL. Henrico Holt not traced]. Binding: seventeenth-century blind-tooled vellum; double fillet border, mitred at the corners with single fillet panel; decorative centrepiece stamp; pairs of blue linen ties (one intact, stubs remain of others); blind-tooled spine.
Makers and roles
Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254 - 184 BC) Jan Gruter (Gruytere) (1560-1627) Friedrich Taubmann (1565-1613)