Pub. Terentij comici nobilissimi sex: q[uae] exta[n]t: fabul[ae] : in metra legitima restitute, ac in officina Melchiaris Lotteri iam emaculatius diligentius[que] impresse. ...

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Terence.

Contributor:

Crinito, Pietro, 1465-approximately 1504

Lotter, Melchior, approximately 1470-1549, printer.

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Latin Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Works. 1512

Language:

Latin

Subjects (All):

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

Latin drama (Comedy).

Genre:

Printers' devices (Printing) -- Germany -- Leipzig -- 16th century.

Penn Provenance:

Olinger, Jean Jules, 1883-1956 (bookplate)

Physical Description:

216 unnumbered pages ; 33 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Sex: q[uae] exta[n]t: fabulae

Fingerprint:

o.to m,ex i,o, EcMo (C) 1512 (R)

Place of Publication:

Lipsi : In Aedibus Melchiaris Lotteri, mense Iunio, anno MDXII [1512]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon.

Unpaginated.

"Eiusdem poete epitaphion ... " on title page is followed by 6 lines of verse.

"Pub Terentii vita ex libro primo Petri Criniti de poetis Latinis" on p. [2]-[3]

Printer's device on recto of last leaf below colophon.

Title page printed in red and black.

Signatures: A-S⁶.

The phrase "Calliopius recensui[t]" following the text of each play suggests that the plays were originally redacted from a manuscript by Calliopius, 4th c. grammarian. Cf. Hall, F.W. "A companion to classical texts" (p. 276).

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy is a school edition with extensive ms. interlinear and marginal annotations, cataloged separately as: Ms. Codex 1618.

Culture Class Collection copy has armorial bookplate of J.J. Olinger which bears Olinger family motto "Labor omnia vincit".

Culture Class Collection copy has description from bookseller's catalog.

Cited in:

Lawton, H.W. Térence en France au XVIe siècle, no. 142

VD 16 T371

Schweiger, F. Classischen bibliographie, II, p. 1055

OCLC:

70833583