P. Terentii Comoediae sex, tum ex Donati commentariis, tum ex optimorum, praesertim veterum, exe[m]plarium collatione, diligentius quàm vnquam antehac, emendatae. Aelii Donati antiquissimi & celeberrimi grammatici, aliorúmque veterum in easdem, quicunque extant, commentarii ex veteri codice manu descripto, Graecis etiam repositis, accurate castigati. Calphurnii in tertiam comoediam doctissima interpretatio. Indicata sunt diligentius carminu[m] genera, & in his incidentes difficultates, correcta quaedam & consulum nomina, ídque studio & opera Des. Erasmi Roterodami, non sine praesidio veteru[m] exemplariorum. Eorum, quae in co[m]mentariis sparsim annotata sunt, index amplissimus.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1536
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Kedleston Hall, Derbyshire
NT 3115106
Summary
Bibliographic description
378,[16]p. . fol.. Wants final blank leaf. Pencil price '17/-' on front free endpaper. Some annotations, various hands. Provenance: Seventeenth- or eighteenth- century inscription on title page: 'Caroli Bernard' [possibly Charles Bernard (1650-1711)]. Inscription on front pastedown: 'From Bp Atterbury's sale' [Francis Atterbury, Bishop of Rochester (1662-1732)] with codes 'p h v', possibly in same hand. Eighteenth-century armorial bookplate on title verso: 'Richard Warner' and eighteenth-century inscription on title page: 'H. Lushington donum Ricardi Warner armigen.' [probably Rev. Henry Lushington (1709-1799) and the botanist Richard Warner (1713?-1775) both of Wadham College, Oxford]. Bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: 'Sold by C.J. Barrington, 344 Strand, near the Lyceum'. Earlier ownership inscription obliterated. Binding: Seventeenth-century full panelled calf, 6 raised bands, gilt-lettered on red spine label 'Terentius Donati'.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC) Giovanni Calfurnio (d.1503) Aelius Donatus Desiderius Erasmus (1466-1536) Robert Estienne (1503-1559)