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Bod-Inc: P-351

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Comoediae (ed. Georgius Merula).

 

Analysis of Content

[A1r] Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua. Incipit: ‘[L]ibet laboriosi mei conatus ne dicam temerarii difficultatem . . .’ Explicit: Plauti ediderimus. Vale See Maurizio Campanelli, ‘Manoscritti antichi, testi a stampa e principi di metodo: spigolando negli scritti filologici di Giorgio Merula', in La parola del testo: semestrale di filologia e letteratura italiana e comparata dal medioevo al rinascimento, 2 (1998), 253-92, at 253-5.

[A2v] [Merula, Georgius]: ‘De uita comoediisque Plauti excerpta quedam ex auctoribus grauissimis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lautus lingue Latine pater et cuius sermones ut Varro . . .’ Explicit: fabulam eam inueniat For the authorship see BSB‑Ink.

[A3v] [Table of contents.]

[a1r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Amphitryo. [Edited, along with the other items in this edition, by Georgius Merula.] Pl. Am.

[b4r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.

[c7r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul.

[d6v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.

[e10r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.

[f9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.

[g9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.

[h5r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.

[i3r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.

[k5v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos.

[l9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men.

[n2r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.

[o9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.

[p10v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. The prologue appears first, followed by the first ‘argumentum'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.

[r6r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.

[s9v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.

[v2r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.

[x7v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.

[y6r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.

[z8r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.

Imprint

Imprint: Venice: Vindelinus de Spira, for Johannes de Colonia, 1472. Folio.

Collation

Collation: [A4 a–q10 r12 s10 t8 v x10 y10+1 z [et]10].

References

ISTC: ip00779000

Hain: HC (+ Addenda) 13074;

Goff: Goff P‑779;

BMC: BMC V 160;

Proctor: Pr 4046;

Others: CIBN P‑451; Hillard 1654; Rhodes 1431; Sheppard 3214.

LCN: 14016292

Copies

Copy number: P-351(1)

The first leaf of the first gathering has a manuscript signature ‘A' in black ink.

Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. The name of the author is written along the fore-edge in black ink.

Size: 335 × 235 × 53 mm.

Size of leaf: 321 × 211 mm.

Occasional early marginal notes, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands.

Provenance: Edward Bernard (1638-1697); Wanley's list, p. 6, no. 524. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow.

Former Bodleian shelfmark: H 2.12 Art (`12' on the fore-edge in black ink).

SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.22.


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