tip00779000

Text-inc Id:

tip00779000

Bod-inc Id:

P-351

Headings:

Plautus, Titus Maccius Comoediae (ed. Georgius Merula).

Analysis of content:

1. [A1r] Merula, Georgius: [Letter addressed to] Jacobus Zenus, Bishop of Padua. Incipit: ‘[L]ibet laboriosi mei conatus ne dicam temerarii difficultatem . . .’ Explicit: Plauti ediderimus. Vale See Maurizio Campanelli, ‘Manoscritti antichi, testi a stampa e principi di metodo: spigolando negli scritti filologici di Giorgio Merula', in La parola del testo: semestrale di filologia e letteratura italiana e comparata dal medioevo al rinascimento, 2 (1998), 253-92, at 253-5.
2. [A2v] [Merula, Georgius]: ‘De uita comoediisque Plauti excerpta quedam ex auctoribus grauissimis.’ Incipit: ‘[P]lautus lingue Latine pater et cuius sermones ut Varro . . .’ Explicit: fabulam eam inueniat For the authorship see BSB‑Ink.
3. [A3v] [Table of contents.]
4. [a1r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Amphitryo. [Edited, along with the other items in this edition, by Georgius Merula.] Pl. Am.
5. [b4r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Asinaria. Pl. As. The ‘argumentum' appears between the prologue and the beginning of Act I.
6. [c7r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Aulularia. Pl. Aul.
7. [d6v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Captivi. Pl. Capt.
8. [e10r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Curculio. Pl. Cur.
9. [f9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Casina. Pl. Cas. The ‘argumentum' follows the prologue.
10. [g9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Cistellaria. Pl. Cist.
11. [h5r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Epidicus. Pl. Epid.
12. [i3r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Bacchides. Pl. Bac. 35-1211.
13. [k5v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mostellaria. Pl. Mos.
14. [l9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Menaechmi. Pl. Men.
15. [n2r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Miles Gloriosus. Pl. Mil.
16. [o9r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Mercator. Pl. Mer.
17. [p10v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Pseudolus. Pl. Ps. The prologue appears first, followed by the first ‘argumentum'; the second ‘argumentum' is omitted.
18. [r6r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Poenulus. Pl. Poen.
19. [s9v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Persa. Pl. Per.
20. [v2r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Rudens. Pl. Rud.
21. [x7v] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Stichus. Pl. St.
22. [y6r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Trinummus. Pl. Trin.
23. [z8r] Plautus, [Titus Maccius]: Comoediae: Truculentus. Pl. Truc.

Imprint:

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

Collation:

[A⁴ a–q¹⁰ r¹² s¹⁰ t⁸ v x¹⁰ y¹⁰⁺¹ z [et]¹⁰].

References:

Source: Bodleian ISTC: ip00779000 HC (+ Addenda) 13074; Goff P‑779; BMC V 160; Pr 4046; CIBN P‑451; Hillard 1654; Rhodes 1431; Sheppard 3214. LCN: 14016292

Copies:

1. P-351(1) Copy The first leaf of the first gathering has a manuscript signature ‘A' in black ink. Binding: Eighteenth-century blind-tooled calf; the gold stamp of the Bodleian Library on both covers. The name of the author is written along the fore-edge in black ink. Size: 335 × 235 × 53 mm. Size of leaf: 321 × 211 mm. Occasional early marginal notes, including comments on the text, ‘nota' marks, and pointing hands. Provenance: Edward Bernard (1638-1697); Wanley's list, p. 6, no. 524. Among the books purchased in 1697 from Bernard's widow. Former Bodleian shelfmark: H 2.12 Art (`12' on the fore-edge in black ink). SHELFMARK: Auct. L 2.22.