Terenti[us] cu[m] directorio vocabuloru[m] sententiaru[m] artis comice glosa i[n]terlineali come[n]tarijs Donato Gvidone Ascensio
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Type of record: Book
Title: Terenti[us] cu[m] directorio vocabuloru[m] sententiaru[m] artis comice glosa i[n]terlineali come[n]tarijs Donato Gvidone Ascensio
Other titles: Terentius cum directorio vocabulorum sententiarum artis comice glosa interlineali comentariis Donato Guidone Ascensio; Terentius cum Directorio Glosa interlineali Comentarijs; Comoediae
Classmark: BC Incunabula TER
Creator(s): Terence
Additional creator(s): Badius, Josse (1462-1535) (Commentator); Calfurnio, Giovanni (1503) (Commentator); Donatus, Aelius (Commentator); Jouenneaux, Guy (1507) (Commentator); Grüninger, Johann (Printer); White, Henry (1900) (Former owner); Grey, Charles Hervey (1875-1955) (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: Per magistrum Ioanne[m] Grüninger; Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Publication city: Immpressum in Imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina [Strassburg]
Date(s): Anno incarnatio[n]is dominice Millesimoquaterq[ue]centesimononagesimosexto. Kalendaru[m] vero Nouembrium. [1 November 1496]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 6 unnumbered pages, CLXXVI (i.e. CLXXIII), 1 unnumbered leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/105160
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008149839705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁸ d-z⁶ A-E⁶ F⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on the verso of numbered leaf CLXXVI (F7v) reads: Immpressum [sic] in Imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina Per magistrum Ioanne[m] Grüninger accuratissime nitidissimeq[ue] elaboratu[m] & denuo reuisum atq[ue] collectum ex diuersis comme[n]tarijs Anno incarnatio[n]is dominice Millesimoquaterq[ue]centesimononagesimosexto. Kalendaru[m] vero Nouembrium. Finit fœliciter.
IBP notes a variant in the colophon.
With the commentaries of Aelius Donatus, Giovanni Calfurnio, Guy Jouenneaux and Josse Badius.
Printed with 73 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Numerous woodcut illustrations throughout the text, including a full-page illustration of a theatre on a1r (repeated on a6v) and full-page illustrations at the beginning of each play.
Leaves 7-179 numbered Folium I - Fo. CLXXVI, with errors.
Large ornamental woodcut initial on leaf a8r.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
The final leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00094000.
Indexed in: Goff T94; HC 15431*; Schr 5331; Schramm XX p.22; Polain(B) 3667; Pell Ms 11018; CIBN T-83; Hillard 1931; Parguez 953; IDL 4286; IBE 5503; IGI 9466; IBP 5196; Sajó-Soltész 3198; Voull(B) 2296; Ohly-Sack 2636, 2637, 2638, 2639, 2640; Coll(U) 1398; Coll(S) 1022; Madsen 3847, 4287; Oates 191; Sheppard 378, 379; Pr 473; BMC I 110.
Features
Very occasional marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, sixteenth-century.
The full-page woodcut of a theatre on leaf a8v has been coloured in red, yellow, blue, green and brown.
The major initials on b1r, b2v and f2v have been supplied in gold and decorated in red and blue.
Other major initials have been supplied and decorated alternately in red and blue.
The large woodcut initial on leaf a8r has been highlighted in yellow.
Paragraph markers supplied in red and blue alternately.
Capital strokes supplied in yellow.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full brown goatskin over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of five fillets, four narrow and one wide. The spine has five raised bands each gold-tooled with a narrow rectangle of triple fillets. Gold-tooled in the second panel is a border of double fillets containing the words: Terentii Comediæ. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Argentina MCCCCXCVI. Each of the remaining five panels are gold-tooled with a border of quadruple fillets. The board edges and turn-ins are also gold-tooled with triple fillets. Size: 307 x 218mm. Leaf size: 298 x 206mm.
Provenance
Written in black ink manuscript with blue ornament at the base of leaf a5v is the monogram IB.
Armoral bookplate of Henry White on the front pastedown with the motto: Præsto et Persto.
Red printed label on the front pastedwn with the words: Caxton Celebration. Class B. On this is another label printed with details of the edition and the statement: Lent by H. White, Esq. This suggests that Henry White lent this item to the exhibition commemorating the 400th anniversary of the printed book in England which took place in London in 1877.
Armorial bookplate on the front pastedown: Ex libris Charles Hervey Hoare.
Written in pencil manuscript on the back pastedown: Perfect. Bernard Quaritch Ltd. F.S. Ferguson 14.iv.25.
Coloured armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the recto of the front free endpaper. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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