Bod-Inc: P-357
Plautus, Titus Maccius
Comoediae (comm. Johannes Baptista Pius).
Analysis of Content
AA1r [Title-page.]
AA1r Ducius, Sebastianus: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘In Plautum commenta uides noua perlege lector | Nodum aenigma iocum carmina manca fero'; 2 elegiac distichs.
AA1v Beroaldus, Philippus: [Letter addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘[P]hilippus Beroaldus lectori salutem. Marcum Plautum inter scriptores clarissimum . . .’ Explicit: cœpit innotescere
AA1v [Privilege.] Incipit: ‘Cautum est per litteras regias ne quispiam audeat citra . . .’ Explicit: sigilli continetur
AA1v Marlianus, Johannes Albertus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Quae fuerant blattis quondam tineisque referta | Plautina in lucem carmina iam redeunt'; 2 elegiac distichs.
AA1v Marlianus, Johannes Albertus: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Herculeae Samius uates ab imagine plantae | Totius coepit corporis inditium'; 2 elegiac distichs.
AA2r Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bentivolus. Incipit: ‘[E]tsi, Joannes Bentivole princeps Auguste, uultus tui maiestas uerborumque pondus . . .’ Explicit: perpetui fauoris aspira
AA3r Calcaterra, Antonius Maria: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Annorum carie phoenix oneratus ad ortus | Ipse tuos uolitat diua pudori color'; 9 elegiac distichs.
AA3v ‘Annotatum et congestum quod in diuersis autoribus emendauerit aut contra sententiam interpretum priorum enodauerit in his Plautinis commentariis enarrator Joannes Baptista Pius.’ Incipit: ‘Ex Amphitruone. Error Diomedis de Roscio . . .’
AA6r Calcaterra, Jacobus Maria: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Scaena iocus ueneres risus derisus amores | Innumeri regnant nunc bene cum numeris'; 4 elegiac distichs.
a1r Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Introduction addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Phisiculanti subinde et per horarum minutias acerrime uestiganti . . .’ Explicit: comedia nonnulla dicamus
a1r Pius, Johannes Baptista: ‘De comaedia.’ Incipit: ‘Comediam Greci complexim et adfatim ita deffinierunt . . .’ Explicit: proparare epicarmi
a1v Pius, Johannes Baptista: ‘De personis.’ Incipit: ‘Ludiones galeris non personis utebantur . . .’ Explicit: non seruentur
a2r Pius, Johannes Baptista: ‘Plauti uita.’ Incipit: ‘Plautum nitidissimum linguae Latinae patrem comparimus . . .’ Explicit: talia dicebantur
a2r ‘De comaedia(!) ex interprete Aristophanis.’ Incipit: ‘Antiquitus qui in uicis iniuria afficiebantur ciues . . .’ Explicit: exordiamur primas A Latin translation of material from the Greek scholia on Aristophanes; see Scholia in Aristophanem, i 1A: Prolegomena de comoedia ed. W. J. W. Koster (Groningen, 1975), 11-12, no. IV. See also A‑383.
a2r Hephaistion [pseudo-]: ‘De uersibus comicis ex enchiridio Ephestionis'. Incipit: ‘Iambicum metrum suscipit quidam per sedes . . .’ Explicit: ‘sunt no sic se habentia'. A Latin translation of Epitome of nine metres; see Scholia in Aristophanem, ed. Koster, 51, no. XIII. See also A‑383.
a2v Priscianus [Caesariensis: De metris fabularum Terentii et aliorum comicorum]. ‘De versibus comicis ratio'. Keil, Grammatici latini, III 418-29; Priscianus, Opuscula, ed. M. Passalacqua, 2 vols, Sussidi eruditi, 40, 48 (Rome, 1987-99), I 19-32.
a4v Rufinus: Commentarium in metra [Terentiana]. Keil, Grammatici latini, VI 554-65.
a6v [Platonius: De Differentia comediarum.] ‘Ex commentario Aristophanis de differentia comaediarum.’ Incipit: ‘Pulcrum(!) notare causas per quas . . .’ Explicit: quoniam in uiis comesabantur A Latin translation from the Greek; see Scholia in Aristophanem, ed. Koster, 3-6, no. I. See also A‑383.
a6v [On the different ages of Comedy.] Incipit: ‘Comaedia partim est antiqua, partim noua . . .’ A Latin translation of material from Greek scholia on Aristophanes; see Scholia in Aristophanem, ed. Koster, 13-14, no. V.
a6v [On the invention of Comedy.] Incipit: ‘Comaediam inuentam fuisse dicunt a Sussarione . . .’ A Latin translation of material from Greek scholia on Aristophanes; see Scholia in Aristophanem, ed. Koster, 7, no. III.1-5. See also A‑383.
a6v ‘Poetae Comici.’ Incipit: ‘Horum illustrissimi sunt Epicharmus, Magnes, Cratinus . . .’ Explicit: amphitryonis exordiamur primas At the beginning of this paragraph stands (in Latin translation) a list from Greek scholia on Aristophanes; see Scholia in Aristophanem, ed. Koster, 7, no. III.11-13. There follow 14 lines of text discussing the reception of comedy in Rome.
b1r Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Commentary on Comoediae.] Incipit: ‘[P]lautinarum comoediarum inter caeteras luculentissima est . . .’ Explicit: Truculento Plautus quam Pseudolus
b1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Amphitryo. Pl. Am.
f4v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.
h6r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul. This edition ends with an additional 27 lines of text (on m1r), with incipit, ‘Non feram nunquam quod non habeo ne efferaris caue | . . .', and explicit, ‘Ibo et aulam referam quod illaec mihi bene auis occinat.’
m1v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.
o1r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.
q5r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.
s7v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.
t8v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.
x7v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.
&2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos.
[Rum8r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men.
C2v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.
F1v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.
H6r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. The first ‘Prologus' begins with the incipit, ‘[S]tudete hodie mihi bona in scaenam affero | Nam bona bonis ferri reor aequum maxime', and has the explicit, ‘Curas malas abiicite iam ut ociosos hodie', with the two lines of the prologue, ‘Exporgi melius lumbos . . .' added onto the end but untitled. There then follows the first ‘argumentum', here also entitled ‘Prologus'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.
L7v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.
O8v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.
Q8v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.
T6v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.
X4v Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.
Z8r Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.
cc6r Pius, Johannes Baptista: [Epilogue addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Haec sunt quae pro captu nostro, lector integerrime, partim ex collatione . . .’ Explicit: cœpisse non omnes. Vale ac lege fœliciter
cc6v Pius, Johannes Baptista: ‘Retracta recognitaque nonnulla ab eodem interprete Pio ex diuersis comediis primumque ex Milite Glorioso.’ Incipit: ‘[C]or in obsidium perduellis nostris presidium para. Non sat assentio pristinae meae interpretationi . . .’ Explicit: Plautino codice scatente
cc9r Salandus, Johannes: [Verse.] Incipit: ‘Scaena, charites umbrique emuncta poetae | Musa Venus Stygiis mersa rogabat aquis'; 11 elegiac distichs.
cc9r Corpellus, Johannes Franciscus: [Verse.] ‘Fulgentii, Sidonii et Plauti colloquium.’ Incipit: ‘Dum fora cum socio Fulgentius ima pererrat | Sidonio scenae cernit uterque patrem'; 10 elegiac distichs.
cc9v Gabuardus de Turcella, Alexander: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quam pius est Baptista Pius, charissime lector | Qui facit extinctos uiuere saepe uiros'; 3 elegiac distichs.
cc9v Gabuardus de Turcella, Alexander: [Verse addressed to the reader.] Incipit: ‘Quanta sit in nostro uirtus, interprete lector | Hoc facile ostendit cura laborque grauis'; 3 elegiac distichs.
cc9v [Colophon.]
Imprint
Imprint: Milan: Uldericus Scinzenzeler, 18 Jan. 1500. Folio.
Collation
Collation: AA a6 b–z & [con] ꝶ A–Z aa bb8 cc10.
References
ISTC: ip00785000
Hain: HC *13084;
Goff: Goff P‑785;
BMC: BMC VI 775;
Proctor: Pr 6044;
Others: BSB‑Ink P‑577; CIBN P‑456; Oates 2315; Rhodes 1435; Sheppard 5015.
LCN: 14014992
Copies
Copy number: P-357(1)
Binding: Seventeenth-century gold-tooled calf stamped with the royal arms of France and Navarre, and the crowned initial ‘L', encircled by the insignia of the Order of the Holy Ghost; cf. examples in Olivier, none of which agrees in detail (Sheppard). The gold stamp of the Bodleian Library is on both covers. Gilt-edged leaves; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 300 × 211 × 70 mm.
Size of leaf: 290 × 187 mm.
Early marginal and interlinear annotations, consisting mainly of extraction of key words, also underlining in red and black ink. Irregular cropped early foliation: 6-417, with some alternative figures given.
Provenance: Philippe Desportes (1545-1606); inscription on AA1r: ‘Ex libris Philippi Desportis'. Paris, Bibliothèque Royale (seventeenth century); armorial binding. [ ] Maehüet; name on AA1r: ‘Mæhüet'. J. Rawlinson (eighteenth century); purchased at Livorno; inscription on the recto of the front endleaf: ‘J. Rawlinson. Leghorn £0: 15: 0'; armorial book-plate of Rawlinson (gules, two bars gemelles between three escallops argent; motto ‘Festina lente'), Howe, Book Plates, 24641(?); also ‘£1 15s' Lond. 1817' on the recto of the front endleaf. Two further seventeenth-century(?) inscriptions on AA1r, one unread under ultraviolet light, the other ‘T[ ]solle'(?). Date of acquisition unknown; other books with neighbouring shelfmarks were acquired between 1832 and 1835.
Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N extra 1.15.
SHELFMARK: Auct. P 5.8.
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