Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Terence
Title:
Terenti[us] : cum directorio vocabuloru[m], sententiaru[m] artis comice, glosa i[n]terlineali, come[n]tarijs Donato, Gvidone, Ascensio.
Alternate Title(s):
Works. 1496
Published / Created:
Immpressum [sic] in imperiali ac vrbe libera Argentina : Per magistrum Ioanne[m] Grüninger ..., anno Incarnatio[n]is Dominice [1496] Kalendaru[m] vero Nouenbrium [1 Nov.] ...
Physical Description:
[6], CLXXVI [i.e. 173], [1] leaves (the last leaf blank) : ill. (woodcuts) ; 30 cm. (fol.)
Holdings:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0812
Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection

Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN Zi +473: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Capital spaces, some with guide-letters; numerous woodcuts. Quire b rubricated; some woodcuts hand-colored. Fol. 2-6 ("Directorium vocabulorum et adagionum" etc.) wanting; fol. I-VIII (quire b) supplied from another, smaller, copy. Copious manuscript marginal and interlinear annotations. Bound in old wooden boards, pigskin back, with clasps. Manuscript note inside front cover: "Carmeli Bambergensis"; bookplate of Thomas Day Seymour. British Museum, XV cent., vol. 1, p. 110 (with "Imperiali ac libera vrbe" in first line of colophon; this copy has "Imperiali ac vrbe libera").

BEIN Zi +473: Bound with: 3 binding fragments cataloged separately. To view other titles search by call number: Zi +473

Includes Vita Terentii de dictis Petrarcae excerpta.

Imprint from colophon (leaf F7v), which gives year of publication in Latin words.

Signatures: a⁶, b-c⁸, d-z⁶, A-E⁶, F⁸.

Capital spaces with guide letters.

Text surrounded by commentary.

Errors in numbering of leaves.

Incunabula short title catalogue, it00094000

Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, T94

Copinger, W.A. Supplement to Hain's Repertorium bibliographicum, 15431*

Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, M45481

Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, I, p. 110 (IB. 1437)

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel de l'amateur de la gravure sur bois et sur métal au XVe siècle, 5331

BAC Leaf Collection no. 0812: Imperfect: leaves II, XCVIII, CXVI, and CXLII only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Contents:
Andria -- Eunuchus -- Hauton timorumenos -- Adelphi -- Phormio -- Hecyra.
Subject Terms:
Comedy -- Early works to 1800. | Latin drama (Comedy) -- Early works to 1800. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Seymour, Thomas D. (Thomas Day), 1848–1907 -- Bookplate. | Carmelites -- Germany -- Bamberg -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library. | Monasteries -- Germany -- Bamberg -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula. | Woodcuts. | Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Jouenneaux, Guy, -1507. | Donatus, Aelius. | Badius, Josse, 1462–1535. | Petrarca, Francesco, 1304–1374. | Grüninger, Johann, -1532? printer.