M. Accius Plautus ex fide, atque auctoritate complurium librorum manuscriptorum opera, Dionys. Lambini monstroliensis emendatus: ab eodémque commentariis explicatus, & nunc primùm in lucem editus. Adiecta sunt Plautina loca ex antiquis grammaticis collecta: & ex commentario antiquarum lectionum Iusti Lipsij multorum Plauti locorum illustrationes & emendationes. Additi quoque sunt duo indices copiosissimi: prior verborum, locutionum & sententiarum: posterior eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini contine[n]tur.
Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254 - 184 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1577
Materials
Place of origin
Paris
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3190659
Summary
Bibliographic description
[8], 1118, [78] p. ; fol. Running number: 4871. Ruled in red throughout. Sheet of paper inserted between p. 246-247, with rough ink sketch of a statue on a pedestal. Provenance: coat of arms of Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655-1707), Archbishop of Rouen; youngest son of the bibliophile Jean-Baptiste Colbert (1619-1683), Minister of Louis XIV]. Binding: seventeenth-century armorial calf; double and single blind fillet border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp: serpent, ducal coronet, with to the right a crosier and to the left a mitre, above archbishop's hat with 20 tassels [i.e. arms of Jacques-Nicolas Colbert (1655-1707), Archbishop of Rouen]. Gilt roll pattern on board edges. Gold-tooled spine, with gold-tooled title label. Marbled edges. Comb-marbled endpapers.
Makers and roles
Titus Maccius Plautus (c.254 - 184 BC) Jakob Helias (fl.1576-1589) Denys Lambin (1520-1572) Georg Fabricius (1516-1571) Justus Lipsius (1547-1606) Pierre Daniel (Orléans 1530 - 1603)