Bod-Inc: P-352

Plautus, Titus Maccius

Comoediae (ed. Georgius Merula).

 

Analysis of Content

a2r Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua. Incipit: ‘[L]ibet laboriosi mei conatus ne dicam temerarii difficultatem . . .’ Explicit: Plautinas ediderimus. Vale See P‑351.

a3v [Merula, Georgius]: ‘De uita comoediisque Plauti excerpta quedam ex auctoribus grauissimis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lautus lingue Latine pater et cuius sermone ut Varro . . .’ Explicit: fabulam eam inueniat For the authorship see P‑351.

a4v [Table of contents.]

b1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Amphitryo. [Edited, along with the other items in this edition, by Georgius Merula.] Pl. Am.

c5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.

d9r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul.

f3v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.

g8r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.

i1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.

k3r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.

l1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.

m1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.

n5v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos. 1-454, finishing on o2v; o3r –p4v: Men. 151-1044; p5r –q5r: Mos. 454/5-1181.

q5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men. 1-150 (q5r –q6v), 1037-1162 (q7r –q8r).

q8r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.

t1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.

u4v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. The prologue appears first, followed by the first ‘argumentum'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.

y3v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.

&3r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.

[us5r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.

A5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.

B5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.

D2r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.

E6v [Colophon.] See Campanelli, ‘Manoscritti antichi', 253 note 6: the colophon adds an iterum before the word emendatae, but the text is only little changed; see also BMC.

Imprint

Imprint: Treviso: Paulus de Ferraria and Dionysius Bertochus, 21 June 1482. 4°.

Collation

Collation: a⁴ b¹⁰ c–z &⁸ [us]⁶⁺¹ ꝶ A–C⁸ D⁶ E⁸.

Remarks: The breaks in the texts of Mos. and Men. coincide with page endings, rather than with leaf or sheet breaks. The confusion of the passages of Mos. and Men. seems most likely to have been caused by the relevant pages being out of order in the copy of P‑351 from which this edition was set.

References

ISTC: ip00780000

Hain: HC *13076;

Goff: Goff P‑780;

BMC: BMC VI 898;

Proctor: Pr 6503;

Others: BSB‑Ink P‑573; CIBN P‑452; Oates 2469; Rhodes 1432; Rhodes, Treviso, no. 96; Sheppard 5548.

LCN: 14016338

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