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Title
Plautus.
Uniform title
Works. 1495
Created/published
Impressum Venetiis &c̃. : [Matteo Capcasa], a[n]no D[omi]ni 1495, die xxiii Noue[m]bris.
Description
[500] p. (the last [2] p. blank) ; 23 cm (4to)
Associated name
Plautus, Titus Maccius. author.
Merula, Giorgio, -1494.
Scutarius, Eusebius.
Capcasa, Matteo, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Merula, Giorgio, -1494.
Scutarius, Eusebius.
Capcasa, Matteo, printer.
Folger, Henry Clay, 1857-1930, former owner.
Folger, Emily C. J. (Emily Clara Jordan), 1858-1936, former owner.
Note
Edited by Giorgio Merula.
Revised by Eusebius Scutarius.
Imprint from colophon (leaf F5v); BM 15th cent. suggests that as Capcasa's last signed book is dated 21 July, this work may have been printed by a successor to his types.
Signatures: a⁴, b-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-E⁸, F⁶ (n4 signed n3).
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Revised by Eusebius Scutarius.
Imprint from colophon (leaf F5v); BM 15th cent. suggests that as Capcasa's last signed book is dated 21 July, this work may have been printed by a successor to his types.
Signatures: a⁴, b-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-E⁸, F⁶ (n4 signed n3).
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-782
BM 15th cent., V, p. 486 (IA.22775)
Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 13078
BM 15th cent., V, p. 486 (IA.22775)
Hain-Copinger-Reichling, 13078
Genre/form
Annotations.
Manicules.
Manicules.
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC P712
Folger-specific note
Folger copy: a few early manuscript notes in brown ink in most of the Comedies, with a few manicules, brackets, underlining, and numerous corrections in text and in headlines; more extensive notes of commentary and corrections using signes-de-renvoi in "Menaechmi". In a later vellum binding. Purchased in 1921.