Plautinae Viginti comediae emendatissimae : cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum uirorum Petri Vallae Placentini ac & Bernardi Saraceni Veneti.
1499
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Plautinae Viginti comediae emendatissimae : cum accuratissima ac luculentissima interpraetatione doctissimorum uirorum Petri Vallae Placentini ac & Bernardi Saraceni Veneti.
Uniform title
Works. 1499
Created/published
Impressum Venetiis : Per Simonem Papiensem dictum Biuilaqua ..., anno huma[n]itatis [Christ]i 1499, XV Klendas Octobres [17 Sept.] ...
Description
[696] p. ; 33 cm (fol.)
Associated name
Plautus, Titus Maccius. author.
Saracenus, Bernardus, active 1500.
Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500.
Fantaguzzi, Gioseffo, active 1644, former owner.
Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.
Bibliotheca Romagnoli Caesenae, former owner.
Saracenus, Bernardus, active 1500.
Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500.
Fantaguzzi, Gioseffo, active 1644, former owner.
Bevilaqua, Simon, active 1485-1518, printer.
Bibliotheca Romagnoli Caesenae, former owner.
Note
In 2 pts., with separate signatures, special colophons and registers.
Imprint from 2nd colophon (leaf F3r).
Signatures: A¹⁰, b-i⁸, k-m⁶; 2a⁶, a-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-D⁸, E⁶, F⁴ (t2, t3, t4 respectively signed r2, r3, r4 in pt. 2).
Errata: leaves F3v-F4r.
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Imprint from 2nd colophon (leaf F3r).
Signatures: A¹⁰, b-i⁸, k-m⁶; 2a⁶, a-z⁸, &⁸, [con]⁸, [rum]⁸, A-D⁸, E⁶, F⁴ (t2, t3, t4 respectively signed r2, r3, r4 in pt. 2).
Errata: leaves F3v-F4r.
Includes register.
Capital spaces with guide letters.
Cited/described in
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, P-784
BM 15th cent., V, p. 523 (IB.23992)
Hain-Copinger 13082*
BM 15th cent., V, p. 523 (IB.23992)
Hain-Copinger 13082*
Place of creation/publication
Italy -- Venice.
Item Details
Call number
INC P714
Folger-specific note
A few corrections in text in brown ink and markings; early inscription on back pastedown with title "mutua[nj?] cujda[m] sartori [...?] sup[er] libro hoc", reading "julius filius m[agist]ri iac[ob]i a Pallazola. Nepos m[agist]ri sebastiani sartoris co[n]fessus fuit habuisse d. sollides quadragintaq[ui]nq[ue] ..."; ownership inscription on title page "Gioseffo Fantaguzzi da Cesena i644"; booklabel "Bibliothecae Romagnoli Caesenae Via S. Zenonis"; shelfmark "A/VI/13" handwritten on front pastedown, and blue and white booklabel bearing handwritten sign or number (undeciphered) on same pastedown. Contemporary Italian sheepskin binding, blind tooled with borders made of floral stamps; in central panel diamond-shaped motifs made of juxtaposition of small flower stamp; central diamond inlaid with embossed goatskin; remains of 4 clasps catching on back cover; manuscript fragments used as endpaper reinforcement.
Call number
268468 (folio)
Folger-specific note
This copy has not yet been cataloged. The description may contain incorrect information. Please email catalog@folger.edu for assistance. This copy formerly owned by the late Franklin D. Cooley, Professor Emeritus of English Language and Literature, University of Maryland College Park. He gave it to Barbara Mayo-Wells when she completed her Ph.D. in Medieval English Literature. She was his last doctoral candidate, and the only one who could read Latin. bound in 20th century vellum stamped K. Ebert München.Gift of Dr. Barbara Mayo-Wells.
Folger accession
268468