[Comoediae]
Details
Type of record: Book
Title: [Comoediae]
Classmark: BC Incunabula/TER
Creator(s): Terence
Additional creator(s): Britannico, Giovanni (active 15th century-16th century) (Editor); Donatus, Aelius (Commentator); Paltasichis, Andreas de (1476-1493) (Printer); Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton 1st baron (1856-1930) (Former owner)
Related people: Britannico, Giovanni; Donatus, Aelius; Paltasichis, Andreas de; Brotherton, Edward Allen Brotherton
Publisher: per magistrum Andream de Paltascichis Catarensem; Andreas de Paltasichis
Publication city: Impressum Venetiis [Venice]
Date(s): M.cccc.lxxxvii. v. Idus Nouembris. [9 November 1487]
Language: Latin
Size and medium: [138] leaves
Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/105182
Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991008149639705181
Collection group(s): Incunabula
Description
Signatures: a-d⁸ e-t⁶ u-x⁸.
Imprint from colophon.
Colophon on x7v reads: Impressum Venetiis per magistrum Andream de Paltascichis Catarensem. M.cccc.lxxxvii. v. Idus Nouembris.
Edited by Joannes Britannicus, with commentary by Aelius Donatus.
Also contains: Vita Terentii.
Printed with 62 lines of commentary surrounding the text.
Initial spaces, some with guide-letters.
Spaces left for Greek.
The first leaf is blank.
Indexed in: ISTC no. it00084000.
Indexed in: Goff T84; HC 15415; IGI 9448; IBP 5190; Sajó-Soltész 3195; Sheppard 3921; Pr 4774; BMC V 354.
Features
Some marginal annotations in black ink manuscript, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Annotations in red ink manuscript at the head of t5v, late fifteenth- or early sixteenth-century.
Various annotations in black ink and pencil manuscript on a1r.
The major initial on a4v is supplied and decorated in red.
Capital strokes and paragraph markers supplied in red.
Some water damage.
Bindings
Nineteenth-century binding of full brown calf over pasteboard. The upper and lower covers are gold-tooled with a border of triple fillets. The spine has six raised bands each gold-tooled with hatching. Gold-tooled in the second panel are the words: Terentius cum donato. Gold-tooled at the base of the spine are the place and date: Venice 1487. In the sixth panel is the Brotherton Collection stamp in gold. The pastedowns are of marbled paper featuring the comb pattern in red, orange, green, blue and white. The board edges and turn-ins are gold-tooled with a repeating pattern and the book has a green silk ribbon register. The leaf edges are sprinkled red. Size: 310 x 225mm. Leaf size: 303 x 213mm.
Provenance
Coloured 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.
Access and usage
Access
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