Bod-Inc: P-355
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Comoediae (comm. Hermolaus Barbarus, Georgius Merula, Philippus Beroaldus, Angelus Politianus; ed. Georgius Merula, rev. Sebastianus Ducius and Georgius Galbiatus).
Analysis of Content
a1r [Title-page.]
a2r Merula, Georgius: ‘De uita comoediisque Plauti ex auctoribus grauissimis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lautus linguae Latinae pater et cuius sermone ut Varro . . .’ Explicit: antiquitatis causa Ennium; different ending
a2v [Table of contents.] ‘Fabularum nomina.’
a3v [Citation of Plautus in classical authors.] Incipit: ‘Cornicularia. Militaueram nam in furtis celebrascit . . .’
a4v [Note about the death of Plautus.] Incipit: ‘Mortuus est Plautus Publio Claudio et Lucio Portio consulibus auctore Marco Tullio in eo qui est de claris oratoribus.’
b1r Barbarus, Hermolaus; Merula, Georgius; Beroaldus, Philippus; Politianus, Angelus: [Commentary on Comoediae.] Incipit: ‘"[I]n faciem uorsus.” Pro uersus nam u pro o poni antiquorum est sicuti . . .’ The authorship of this commentary is indicated on the title-page and in the editors' colophon. There is an extensive (but unascribed) commentary, with corrections and alternative readings, in Am. and As.; in the remaining plays, however, there are occasional sections of commentary (ascribed to Barbarus, Beroaldus, and Merula) only, plus alternative readings.
b1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Amphitryo. Edited, along with the other items in this edition, by Georgius Merula, and revised by Sebastianus Ducius and Georgius Galbiatus. Pl. Am.
e5v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.
h2r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul.
i4r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.
l1v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.
m3v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.
n6v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.
o4r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.
p3r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.
q7r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos.
s2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men.
u1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.
x8r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.
z2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. In this edition an additional ‘argumentum' is printed first, with incipit, ‘Sutedete(!) hodie mihi bona in scenam affero | Nam bona bonis ferri . . .', followed by the prologue, followed by the first ‘argumentum'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.
[con4v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.
A2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.
B5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.
D2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.
E2r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.
F5v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.
H3v [Editors' colophon, naming the editors, and Merula and Politianus as authors of additional material.] Incipit: ‘Plautinas uiginti comoedias Georgius Merulla Alexandrinus uir doctissimus . . .’ Explicit: facile poterit cognoscere For the actual contributions of the named scholars see V. Fera, ‘Tra Poliziano e Beroaldo: l'ultimo scritto filologico di Giorgio Merula', Studi umanistici, 2 (1991), 7-41, at 13 n.1.
H3v [Description of cottabus.] Incipit: ‘Cottabus genus ludi conuiuialis tale erectum stabat lignum in loco . . .’ Explicit: talis esse iudicabatur Translated from Greek.
Imprint
Imprint: [Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, c.1495]. Folio.
Remarks: As dated by Sheppard.
Collation
Collation: a4 b–g6 h i8 k–m6 n–r8 s6 t–y8 z &6 [con] ꝶ8 A6 B–E8 F G6 H4.
Illustrations: Woodcut on H3v: see Sander.
References
ISTC: ip00783000
Hain: H *13085;
Goff: Goff P‑783;
BMC: BMC VI 773;
Proctor: Pr 6031;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑575; Sander 5746; Sheppard 5006.
LCN: 14015036
Copies
Copy number: P-355(1)
The last line of the register reads in error: ‘Sum nec', not ‘Facta' as in BMC. Leaf G1 is correctly signed ‘G', not ‘Fiiii’ as BMC.
Binding: Nineteenth-century quarter leather over original wooden boards; three clasps and catches lost.
Size: 327 × 225 × 56 mm.
Size of leaf: 315 × 207 mm.
Occasional early marginal and interlinear annotations, including corrections to the text and extraction of key words.
Provenance: Joseph Baer & Co., Catalogue 235, no. 1000(?). Purchased for 60 Marks; see Library Bills, 18 Jan. 1889.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P inf. 2.16.
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