tid00353000

Text-inc Id:

tid00353000

Bod-inc Id:

D-153

Headings:

Donatus, Aelius Commentum in Terentii Comoedias.

Analysis of content:

1. [a2r] [Donatus, Aelius: Commentum in Terentii Comoedias.] Don. Ter. On the textual tradition see M. D. Reeve, ‘Aelius Donatus', Texts and Transmission, 153-6, at 155; M. D. Reeve, ‘The Textual Tradition of Donatus's Commentary on Terence', Hermes: Zeitschrift für klassiche Philologie, 106 (1978), 608-18; M. D. Reeve and R. H. Rouse, ‘New Light on the Transmission of Donatus's Commentum Terentii’, Viator, 9 (1979), 235-49.
2. [G9r] Zovenzonius, Raphael: [Verse, addressed to] Vindelinus de Spira. Incipit: ‘Qui cupit obstrusam frugem gustasse Terenti | Donatum querat noscere grammaticum | Quem Vindelinus signis impressit ahenis | Vir bonus & claro preditus ingenio'; 2 elegiac distichs. B. Ziliotto, Raffaele Zovenzoni, la vita, i carmi, Celebrazioni degli Istriani illustri, 3 (Trieste, 1950), 159 no. 261.

Imprint:

[Venice]: Vindelinus de Spira, [c.1472]. Folio.

Collation:

[a¹⁰ b–d⁸ e⁶ f–h⁸ i¹⁰ k⁶⁺¹ l¹⁰ m n⁸ o¹⁰ p–t⁸ v⁶].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00353000 HR 6383 = H 15390; Goff D‑353; BMC V 163; GW 9035; Pr 4056; BSB‑Ink D‑277; Sheppard 3222. LCN: 14888772

Copies:

1. D-153(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and [v5-6]. Binding: Parchment; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. Size: 341 × 246 × 40 mm. Size of leaf: 333 × 235 mm. Early marginal notes, some in faded red ink, mainly extracting key words. Provenance: José Maria Riveiro da Fonseca (1690-1760), Bishop of Porto; armorial stamp, lettered ‘Bibl. Fonsec. Aracoelit.', flanked by stamped initials ‘B.A.' on [a2r]. Luigi Serra, 4th Duca di Cassano (1747-1825); see Catalogo, 17. George John, 2nd Earl Spencer (1758-1834); sale (1821), lot 108. Purchased for £1. 1. 0; see Books Purchased (1821), 5 and the annotated sale catalogue. Former Bodleian shelfmark: Auct. N 1.18. SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.30.