[Comoedi[a]e].

Accession number:

PML 294

Author:

Plautus, Titus Maccius.

Published:

Venice : Vindelinus de Spira, for Johannes de Colonia, 1472.

Description:

[245] leaves ; 32.5 x 23 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan by 1906.

Notes:

Title from ISTC.
Colophon (leaf [25]/8v): Plautin[a]e viginti Comoedi[a]e: lingu[a]e Latin[a]e delici[a]e: magna ex parte emendat[a]e per Georgium Alexandrinum: de cuius eruditione et diligentia indicent legentes. Impress[a]e fuere opera & impendio Joannis de Colonia Agripinensi: atq[ue] Vindelini de Spira. VENETIIS. M.CCCC.LXXII. Nicolao Throno Principe iucundissimo & Duce foelicissimo.
Printed in type 1:110R.
Collation: [1⁴; 2-17¹⁰ 18¹² 19¹⁰ 20⁸ 21¹⁰ 22¹⁰(+10*: Quasi tectu[m], verso blank) 23-25¹⁰]: 245 leaves, leaves [1]/4 and [25]/9-10 blank.
Paper format: Median folio
Edited by Georgius Merula.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.4 x 22.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding:

17th/18th-century(?) vellum with gilt-tooled back over paper boards (32.5 x 23 cm.), sewn on 4 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; speckled edges.

Variant Title:

Comoediae

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Rubricated, major initials with white vine decoration (same as PML 295), alternating red and blue initials and paragraph marks, headlines in red. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations, likely by Montagnana. Leaf [19]/10v crossed out with a red X. Contemporary alpha-numeric manuscript quire signatures, mostly trimmed.

Provenance:

Petrus Montagnana (d. 1478); Padua, Canons Regular of the Lateran, S. Giovanni Baptista di Verdara, inscription citing bequest by Montagnana: "Librum hunc Canonicis Regularib[us] Lateran[ensibus] in monasterio divi Joannis Baptiste de Viridaria Padue agentibus vir venerabilis ac devotus Christi sacerdos et bonarum artium cultor Grece, Latine, Hebraice eque peritissimus D. Petrus Montagnana opti[m]a fide pietatis studio proq[ue] salute adscripsit atq[ue] donauit que[m] quisq[ue] legens p[ro]ficiat p[ri]mu[m] deinde sit gratus MCCCCLXXVIII," 1478 (leaf [25]/8v); Charles Spencer (1675-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B 1: 37 (front fly leaf verso); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, part IV, Puttick & Simpson, 6 Nov. 1882, lot 9861, to Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased Nov. 1882 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Quaritch by 1906.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Vellum bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books