Bod-Inc: B-574
Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus
Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia.
Analysis of Content
[a1r] Brunus Aretinus, Leonardus [pseudo-; Leonardo della Serrata: Gracchus et Poliscena comoedia.] Incipit: ‘[C]orripio m[at]res gnatas, ne numina ducant.’ On authorship see Giorgio Nonni, ‘Documenti intorno all'umanista vercellese Leonardo della Serrata', Giornale italiano di filologia, NS 5 (1974), 278-94, Giorgio Nonni, ‘Contributi allo studio della Commedia umanistica: La Poliscena’, Atti e memorie dell'Arcadia, 3/6 (1975-6), 393-451; Heinz-Werner Norenberg, ‘Leonardo [Brunis] Poliscena und ihre Stellung in der Tradition der römischen Komödie', Humanistica Lovaniensia, 24 (1975), 1-28; John Pearson Perry, ‘Poliscena, a Latin Humanist Comedy of the Early Renaissance', unpublished Ph.D. dissertation, Harvard University, 1975.
Imprint
Imprint: Schussenried: [Printer of the ‘Gracchus et Poliscena'], 1478. Folio.
Remarks: The colophon reads ‘ . . . in monadſterio / Sorten̄. . . . Anno | . . .’
Collation
Collation: [a8 b6].
References
ISTC: ib01245000
GW: GW 5610;
Hain: H *1595;
Goff: Goff B‑1245;
BMC: BMC II 568;
Proctor: Pr 2667;
Others: BSB‑Ink B‑943; CIBN B‑882; Sack, Freiburg, 854; Sheppard 1922.
LCN: 13985865
Copies
Copy number: B-574(1)
Binding: Nineteenth-century diced russia, for the Bodleian Library(?); stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers.
Size: 292 × 215 × 19 mm.
Size of leaf: 278 × 198 mm.
A few early interlinear glosses.
Provenance: Purchased for £3. 13. 6; see Books Purchased (1806), 1.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 3.13.
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