M. Plauti linguae Latinae Principis comoediae XX / recens ex collatione multorum codicum [qui] tum calamo scripti tum formulis excusi habeba[n]tur singularis diligentur recognitae ; figurantur etiam ad p[er]fectiorem operis intellige[n]tiam singula narrationum capita ; item eaedem comoediae o[mn]ibus fere locis comentationibus ornantur, quas Bernardus Saracenus adq[ue] Joannes Petrus Valla scriptas olim reliquere, nec desunt quoq[ue] obseruatio[n]es quaepiam Pij Bononiensis sparsim collocatae cu[m] auctor obscuriusculus occurrere videtur.
1511
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M. Plauti linguae Latinae Principis comoediae XX / recens ex collatione multorum codicum [qui] tum calamo scripti tum formulis excusi habeba[n]tur singularis diligentur recognitae ; figurantur etiam ad p[er]fectiorem operis intellige[n]tiam singula narrationum capita ; item eaedem comoediae o[mn]ibus fere locis comentationibus ornantur, quas Bernardus Saracenus adq[ue] Joannes Petrus Valla scriptas olim reliquere, nec desunt quoq[ue] obseruatio[n]es quaepiam Pij Bononiensis sparsim collocatae cu[m] auctor obscuriusculus occurrere videtur.
Uniform title
Works. 1511
Created/published
Impressum Venetiis : Per Lazarum Soardum, die xiiii Augusti MDXI [14 August 1511]
Description
CXXVIII, LXXXII, CLXXXIII-CLXXXX, [1] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Plautus, Titus Maccius. author.
Pio, Giovanni Battista, -1540?, editor.
Saraceni, Bernardo, active 15th century-16th century, editor.
Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500, editor.
Soardi, Lazzaro de', approximately 1450-1517, printer.
Gibbs Family Library, former owner.
Pio, Giovanni Battista, -1540?, editor.
Saraceni, Bernardo, active 15th century-16th century, editor.
Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500, editor.
Soardi, Lazzaro de', approximately 1450-1517, printer.
Gibbs Family Library, former owner.
Note
Imprint from colophon.
Signatures: A-Z⁸ a-c⁸ d¹⁰ 2A¹⁰ 2B-2L⁸.
Illustrations: woodcut title border (from the Malermi Bible of 1493), full-page woodcut of a performance in a theatre (from Soardo's 1497 Terence) and numerous composite woodcut illustrations printed from separate small blocks of figures, houses, trees, etc. and often flanked by border pieces. Names of characters have been inserted in type in the scrolls over the figures. Ornamental initials (white on black) in several sizes.
Printer's device at colophon.
Final leaf is blank.
Signatures: A-Z⁸ a-c⁸ d¹⁰ 2A¹⁰ 2B-2L⁸.
Illustrations: woodcut title border (from the Malermi Bible of 1493), full-page woodcut of a performance in a theatre (from Soardo's 1497 Terence) and numerous composite woodcut illustrations printed from separate small blocks of figures, houses, trees, etc. and often flanked by border pieces. Names of characters have been inserted in type in the scrolls over the figures. Ornamental initials (white on black) in several sizes.
Printer's device at colophon.
Final leaf is blank.
Cited/described in
Verzeichnis der im deutschen Sprachbereich erschienenen Drucke des XVI. Jahrhunderts (VD 16), CNCE 31936
Sander 5748
Essling 1724
Dyson Perrins 198
Proctor 12573
Sander 5748
Essling 1724
Dyson Perrins 198
Proctor 12573
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
PA6568 .A2 1511 Cage
Folger-specific note
In modern goatskin in a gilt panel and frame design; gilt edges. Armorial bookplate: Aldenham House Herts. (motto: Tenax propositu).
Folger accession
12.1.44