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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