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PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius (ca. 250-ca. 184 BC). Comoediae. Commentary by Joannes Petrus Valla and Bernardinus Saracenus. Venice: Simon Bevilaqua, for Marcus Firmanus, 17 September 1499.
Super-chancery 2° (306x220mm). Collation: a10 b-i8 k6 l-m6 aa6 2a-z8 & 8 A-D8 E6 F4 (a1r title, a1v dedicatory letter by Valla to Scaramuccia de Trivulzi, verses, a2r Valla's commentary, m6r first colophon, m6v blank, aa1r dedicatory letter by Saracenus to Franciscus Marcellus, aa1v table to Saracenus's commentary, 2a1r commentary by Saracenus, 2a2r text and commentary, F3r colophon, verses on Saracenus and Marcus Firmanus by Palladius Soranus, printer's device (Kristeller 192), F3v register, errata, F4v blank). 348 leaves. 58 lines and headline. Type: 18:80bR (commentary), 23:112bR (text), 107*R (title and Valla's dedicatory letter), 80b Greek. 4- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters left blank. (Inscriptions on title erased creating small hole and loss of a few words, small tear repaired in F4 affecting a few letters but without loss, small wormholes in first quires affecting a few letters, F1.4 rehinged, light marginal dampstain in last quires.) Seventeenth-century vellum over pastepaper boards, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Provenance: inscriptions erased from title, one dated 1505, another probably reads Roberti Drac[--]tii; marginal annotations in an early Italian hand.
First edition with this commentary. Georgius Valla seems to have commenced work on a commentary before his death in 1499, because his son here mentions incorporating his work, and Bernardus Saracenus lauds him also. Johannes Petrus Valla and Firmanus together took out a privilege for this text on 5 March 1499 (Fulin 91). HC *13082; BMC V, 523 (IB. 23991-2); Goff P-784; Polain(B) 3198; IDL 3722; IGI 7875
Super-chancery 2° (306x220mm). Collation: a10 b-i8 k6 l-m6 aa6 2a-z8 & 8 A-D8 E6 F4 (a1r title, a1v dedicatory letter by Valla to Scaramuccia de Trivulzi, verses, a2r Valla's commentary, m6r first colophon, m6v blank, aa1r dedicatory letter by Saracenus to Franciscus Marcellus, aa1v table to Saracenus's commentary, 2a1r commentary by Saracenus, 2a2r text and commentary, F3r colophon, verses on Saracenus and Marcus Firmanus by Palladius Soranus, printer's device (Kristeller 192), F3v register, errata, F4v blank). 348 leaves. 58 lines and headline. Type: 18:80bR (commentary), 23:112bR (text), 107*R (title and Valla's dedicatory letter), 80b Greek. 4- to 9-line initial spaces with guide-letters left blank. (Inscriptions on title erased creating small hole and loss of a few words, small tear repaired in F4 affecting a few letters but without loss, small wormholes in first quires affecting a few letters, F1.4 rehinged, light marginal dampstain in last quires.) Seventeenth-century vellum over pastepaper boards, red leather spine labels, marbled endpapers. Provenance: inscriptions erased from title, one dated 1505, another probably reads Roberti Drac[--]tii; marginal annotations in an early Italian hand.
First edition with this commentary. Georgius Valla seems to have commenced work on a commentary before his death in 1499, because his son here mentions incorporating his work, and Bernardus Saracenus lauds him also. Johannes Petrus Valla and Firmanus together took out a privilege for this text on 5 March 1499 (Fulin 91). HC *13082; BMC V, 523 (IB. 23991-2); Goff P-784; Polain(B) 3198; IDL 3722; IGI 7875