Bod-Inc: P-354
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Comoediae (ed. Georgius Merula, rev. Eusebius Scutarius).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
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 quaedam ex auctoribus grauissimis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lautus linguae Latinae 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, and revised by Eusebius Scutarius. Pl. Am.
d2r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.
e6r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul.
f8v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.
h5v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.
i7r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.
l1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.
l7r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.
m7r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.
o4r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos.
q2r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men.
r7v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.
t8v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.
x4r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. The prologue appears first, followed by the first ‘argumentum'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.
z3v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.
[con3r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.
[Rum5r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.
B4v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.
C4v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.
E1v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.
F4v Scutarius, Eusebius: [Letter addressed to] Georgius Merula. Incipit: ‘[C]onfecimus non minus sedulo quam libenter, prudentissime praeceptor, quod nobis superioribus diebus iniunxisti . . .’ Explicit: egregium decus
Imprint
Imprint: Venice: [Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca)], 23 Nov. 1495. 4°.
Remarks: BMC suggests that as Capcasa's last signed book is dated 21 July, this work may have been printed by a later owner of his types.
Collation
Collation: a4 b–z & [con] ꝶ A–E8 F6.
References
ISTC: ip00782000
Hain: HCR 13078;
Goff: Goff P‑782;
BMC: BMC V 486;
Proctor: Pr 5003;
Others: CIBN P‑454; Rhodes 1433; Sheppard 4369.
LCN: 14014968
Copies
Copy number: P-354(1)
Binding: Eighteenth-century quarter parchment with paper boards; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. The name of the author is written along the lower edge in black ink in a sixteenth-century hand.
Size: 222 × 167 × 37 mm.
Size of leaf: 214 × 155 mm.
Occasional early marginal annotations, including extraction of key words and ‘nota' marks.
Provenance: Partially unread inscription on a1r in a sixteenth-century hand(?): ‘Oct. Pretiani cor[ ] ser[ ]'. Maffeo Pinelli (1735-1785); Morelli (1787), II 4871; sale (1789), lot 9773. Purchased for £0. 11. 0; the annotated sale catalogue gives no name of a buyer, but the same price as Books Purchased (1789), 6.
SHELFMARK: Auct. O 5.20.
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