Terentius cum directorio vocabulorum, sententiarum artis comice, glosa interlineali, comentarijs Donato, Guidone, Ascensio
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Type of record: Book
Title: Terentius cum directorio vocabulorum, sententiarum artis comice, glosa interlineali, comentarijs Donato, Guidone, Ascensio
Other titles: Terentius cum Directorio Glosa interlineali Comentarijs; Comoediae
Classmark: BC Incunabula TER
Creator(s): Terence
Additional creator(s): Curtius, Joannes of Ebersbach (Editor); Petrarca, Francesco (1304-1374) (Other); Locher, Jacob (1471-1528) (Other); Bebel, Heinrich (1472-1518) (Other); Donatus, Aelius (Commentator); Badius, Josse (1462-1535) (Commentator); Jouenneaux, Guy (1507) (Commentator); Grüninger, Johann (Printer); Cantrell, William (Former owner); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Publisher: per Ioannem Grüninger; Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Publication city: Impressum in imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina
Date(s): Anno a natiuitate domini. 1499 Tertio ydus Februarij. [11 February 1499]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: 6 unnumbered pages, CLXXXI [i.e. CLXXII] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/106091
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008149879705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁸ d-z⁶ A-F⁶.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on F6r reads: Impressum in imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina per Ioannem Grüninger. Ad illam formam vt intuenti iocundior, atq[ue] intellectu facilior esset Per Ioannem Curtum ex Eberspach redactum. Anno a natiuitate domini. 1499 Tertio ydus Februarij.
Some copies have a variant colophon with the incorrect reading: Ioannen Grüninger.
Edited by Johannes Curtius.
Includes the commentaries of Aelius Donatus, Guy Jouenneaux and Jodocus Badius.
Includes verses by Jacob Locher and Heinrich Bebel.
With a biography of the author by Petrarch.
Printed with 72 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Numbers [CXXXI]-[CXXXIX] omitted and several other errors in foliation.
Full-page woodcut on the title-page, with inserted letterpress subtitle, incorporating a full-page illustration of a theatre interior.
The woodcuts include seven full-page cuts (one at the beginning of each play) and smaller cuts at the beginning of each scene, each composed of combinations of two, three or five blocks.
Initial spaces with guide-letters.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00101000.
Indexed in: Hain-Copinger 15432; Goff T107; Proctor 488; BMC I 113.
Features
There are several markings in the margins in black ink manuscript that resemble an individual's early attempts at handwriting.
A printed copy of the missing full-page woodcut of a theatre is pasted to the recto of the first front flyleaf.
Missing leaves 1-4, 34 and 178.
The leaves have been cropped and there are mends to some leaf edges.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full brown calf over pasteboard. The leather on the upper and lower covers has been marbled to resemble tortoiseshell. Lines have been gold-tooled on the smooth spine dividing it into panels. In the second panel is a pared green leather lettering piece gold-tooled with two lines of ornamentation and the name: Terentius. The leaf edges are coloured yellow. Size: 272 x 200mm. Leaf size: 262 x 188mm.
Provenance
Inscription in black ink manuscript at the head of the recto of numbered leaf IIII (b4r): E dono Willielmi Cantrell 1709 [?].
Cutting from a French sale catalogue on the front pastedown.
Small black and white armorial bookplate of Sir Edward Allen Brotherton on the front pastedown. The book was most likely acquired before 17 June 1929 when Brotherton was created Baron Brotherton of Wakefield.
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