M. Plautii poete Comici in omni latina elegantia parentis ac principis Comoedia prima cui Amphitryo nome[n] ab auctore ip[s]o ineditu[m] est / Joa[n]nes Arnoldus Bergellanus ad candidam juuentutem.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Contributor:

Arnold, Johann, active 16th century, printer.

Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Amphitruo

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

Latin drama (Comedy)--Early works to 1800.

Latin drama (Comedy).

Genre:

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

60 unnumbered pages ; 21 cm (4to)

Other Title:

Comoedia prima cui Amphitryo nome[n] ab auctore ip[s]o ineditu[m] est

Fingerprint:

t,em æ,m. m.i. NaOm C 1521 (T)

Place of Publication:

Lipsiae : Ap[u]d Melchiore[m] Lotthe[rum], anno d[om]ni Millesimo quinge[n]tesimo vigesimoprimo [1521]

Notes:

Without pagination.

Title printed in red and black within decorative historiated woodcut border.

Title statement followed by 8 lines of verse.

Title border possibly by Hans Cranach. Cf. A.F. Johnson, German Renaissance title-borders, no. 74.

Signatures: A-E⁶.

Online version available via Colenda https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3pk07760

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is a school edition with extensive ms. interlinear and marginal annotations.

Culture Class Collection copy has boards bound in a leaf from a liturgical manuscript, probably an antiphonary, containing text and music for the responsory ("Audivi vocem in caelo Angelorum multorum dicentium") and verse ("Vidi angelum Dei fortem volantem") following the fifth reading and the responsory ("Veniens a Libano quam pulchra facta est, alleluia") following the sixth reading for matins of the Divine Office for the third Sunday after Easter. Neumes and 4-line staves in brown ink (DO line highlighted in red ink). Text in a Gothic bookhand in brown ink; rubric in red. Two large initials, one in blue with red penwork extensions and one in red with blue penwork extensions.]

Cited in:

VD 16 P3405

OCLC:

753564245