Plautinæ Uiginti comœdiæ : li[n]guæ Latinæ deliciæ / magna ex parte iter[um] emendatæ per Georgium Alexandrinum. De cuius eruditione & diligentia iudicent legentes.

Accession number: 
PML 16720
Author: 
Plautus, Titus Maccius.
Published: 
Tarvisii : Impressae fuere opera: & impedio Pauli de Feraria. atq[ue] Dionysii de Bononia, M. CCCCLXXXII. Die XXI Iunii.
Description: 
[243] leaves ; 29.5 cm. (folio)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1910.
Notes: 

Title from colophon (E6 verso).
Imprint from colophon (leaf E6v): Plautinae uiginti Comoediae: li[n]guae latinae deliciae: magna ex parte iter[um] emendatae per Georgium Alexandrinum. De cuius eruditione & diligentia iudicent legentes. Impressae fuere opera: & impedio Pauli de Feraria. atq[ue] Dionysii de Bononia. Tarvisii. M.cccclxxxii. die .xxi. Iunii. Ioanne Mocenigo principe iucundissimo et duce foelicissimo.
Printed in type 2:80R.
Signatures: a⁴ b¹⁰ c-z⁸ &⁸ [us]⁶(+ [us]4) [rum]⁸, A-C⁸ D⁶ E⁸: 243 leaves, leaves a1 and E8 blank. Leaf [us]4 is a signed single leaf.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Incipit of dedicatory letter addressed to Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua (leaf a2r): 'Reverendissimo in Christo patri & domino Iacobo Zeno pontifici Patavino Georgius Alexandrinus salutem plurimam dicit.'
Reprinted from the edition by Vindelinus de Spira, 1472 (ISTC ip00779000), including mistakes in imposition, see BM 15th cent.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.5 x 19.5 cm.

Binding: 
18th-century English blind-tooled calf over paper boards (29.5 x 20 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; yellow edges.
Variant Title: 

Uiginti comœdiæ

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubricated, contemporary (Italian?) alternating red and pale blue initials. Annotatons: Contemporary marginal notations, washed/faded, and foliation. Manuscript title on fore edge.

Provenance: 
Michael Wodhull (1740-1816), inscription (front fly leaf recto), purchased from Payne, 17 Nov. 1791 for £3.3.0, Wodhull left his collection to his sister-in-law Mary Ingram, who left it in 1824 to Samuel Amy Severne; J.E. Severne and Wodhull sale, Sotheby's London, 11 January 1886, lot 2017 to Bernard Quaritch for £3.18.0; Bernard Quaritch, Albert Müller collation note, 19 Jan. 1886 (rear fly leaf); unidentified shelf mark, in pencil: O. 2. 12. (front fly leaf recto); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, April 1910.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books