Publii Terentii Comoediae sex, post optimas editiones emendatae. Accedunt, Aelii Donati, commentarius integer. Cum selectis Guieti & variorum notis, multo auctoribus, quam antehac. Indices, tertia fere parte locupletiores. Accurante Corn. Schrevelio.
Terence (c.190-159 BC)
Category
Books
Date
1669
Materials
Place of origin
Leiden
Collection
Felbrigg, Norfolk
NT 3237217
Summary
Bibliographic description
[48], 864, [64] p. ; 8vo. Former Felbrigg shelfmarks: P3, O3 (both in pencil, both crossed-out). Provenance: manuscript inscription in black ink on front pastedown: “A Windham” [i.e. Ashe Windham (1673-1749)]. Eighteenth-century Jacobean armorial bookplate (Franks 32206), lettered: William Windham Esquire [i.e. either William Windham II (1717-1761) or William Windham III (1750-1810)]. Binding: seventeenth-century full sprinkled sheepskin (rubbed and torn); sewn on five supports; double blind fillet border with small blind cornerpiece stamps, the spine-edge with additional blind roll pattern and a second double blind fillet; blind roll pattern on board edges; gold-tooled spine; gilt title 'Terentii' lettered directly onto spine; red sprinkled textblock edges.
Makers and roles
Terence (c.190-159 BC), author Aelius Donatus, commentator François Guyet (1575-1655), editor Cornelis Schrevel (1608-1664), editor Pierre Philippe (d. 1664), engraver (printmaker)