Aristophanous kōmōdiai ennea = Aristophanis comoediae novem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Aristophanes.

Contributor:

Forteguerri, Scipione, 1466-1515.

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1498

Language:

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Latin

Genre:

Incunabula.

Printing, Greek.

Drama.

Penn Provenance:

Pepper, William, 1874-1947 (donor)

Physical Description:

348 unnumbered leaves ; 32 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Aristophanis comoediae novem

Place of Publication:

[Venice] : [Aldus Manutius, Romanus], [15 July 1498]

Contents:

(from t.p.) Ploutos

Nephelai

Batrachoi

Hippeis

Acharneis

Sphēkes

Ornithes

Eirēnē

Ekklēsiazousai.

Notes:

Edited in part by Markos Mousouros.

Imprint from colophon (leaf [Tau]5v), which reads: Venetiis apud Aldum. MIID. Idibus Quintilis.

First edition of 9 comedies; the Lysistrata and the Thesmophoriazusae were not printed until 1515.

"Scholia" by Mousouros surrounds text.

Includes a Greek epigram by Scipione Carteromaco on leaf pi2v.

Signatures: pi⁸ [alpha]-[gamma]⁸ [delta]¹⁰ [epsilon]-[xi]⁸ [omicron]¹⁰ [pi]-[upsilon]⁸ [phi]⁶ [chi]-[omega]⁸ [Alpha]-[Epsilon]⁸ [Zeta]⁶ [Eta]-[Lambda]⁸ [Mu]⁴ [Nu]-[Omicron]⁸ [Pi]¹⁰ [Rho]-[Sigma]⁸ [Tau]⁶

Leaves [kappa]8 and [Tau]6 are blank; pi2, 4 signed '2', '4' respectively.

Super-Chancery folio. Leaf pi2r: 40 lines; area of text: 227 x 155 mm. Woodcut initials and head-pieces, some initial spaces with guide-letters. Some headlines. With signatures and catchwords, without foliation. Register at end.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 306 x 196 mm.

Given to the University of Pennsylvania by Dr. William Pepper in 1922.

Binding: full black morocco with gold-tooling and gold arabesques on panels; five raised bands and five panels with gold floral designs on spine; author's name, title and imprint in two panels; gold stamped turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.

Former ownership inscription, or price, excised from upper corner on front free endpaper. Leaf [nu]1 mended at lower corner with some loss of text. Cover detached from spine.

Cited in:

Goff A-958

Proctor 5566

GW 2333

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, 1498, no. 3

BM 15th cent. V, 559 (IB.24470)

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2663

BSB-Ink. A-673

ISTC UKBYIA00958000-E

Contains:

Mousouros, Markos, approximately 1470-1517. Scholia Aristophanica.

OCLC:

40403463