Plautus integer cum interpretatione Joannis baptistae pij
Publisher: Uldericus Scinzenzeler
Published: 1500
Place of publication: Milan
Language: lat
Number of pages: 422
Subjects: Criticism and interpretation; Latin drama (Comedy)
Other titles: Plautus integer cum interpretatione Johannis Baptistae Pii; Comoediae
Work titles: Works
Notes: Title from title page on leaf AA1 recto.

Imprints from colophon on leaf cc9 verso, which reads in full: Impressum Mediolani per Magistrum Vldericum scinzenzeler anno domini .Mccccc. die .xviii. mensis .Ianuariis.

Edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius. Preface by Filippo Beroaldo.

Main text typographically distinguished from the commentary that surrounds it.

Caption to Johannes Baptista Pius's letter addressed to Johannes Bentivolus printed in red on leaf AA2 recto.

Scinzenzeler's woodcut device c on leaf cc9 verso: for Scinzenzeler's device, see BM 15th century, VI, 762.

Printed running titles and notabilia.

Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.

Signatures: AA⁶ a⁶ b-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [Rum]⁸ A-Z⁸ aa-bb⁸ cc¹⁰.

BM 15th cent., VI, 775

BN cat. des incun., P-456

Bod-inc, P-357

BSB-Ink, P-577

Goff, P785

GW, M33974 (with digital facsimiles)

Hain-Copinger, 13084*

ISTC, ip00785000

Oates, 2315

Heraldic device as ex libris inside cover in a 19th century binding. Some fading contemporary ownership notes on title page. Ownership note from Bologna on the explicit page, dated November 1500.

Trimmed pages. Occasional marginal notes and underlining in the text.
Table of contents: title: Title page, AA1r; Sebastianus Ducius. [Verse addressed to the reader], incipit "In plautum commenta uides noua perlege lector. / Nodum: aenigma: iocum: carmina manca fero", 2 elegiac distichs, AA1r; Philippus Beroaldus. [Letter addressed to the reader], AA1v; [Privilege], AA1v; Johannes Albertus Marlianus. [Verses], two sets of two elegiac distichs, AA1v; Johannes Baptista Pius. [Letter addressed to] Johannes Bentivolus, AA2r-AA3r; Antonius Maria Calcaterra. [Verse], 9 elegiac distichs, AA3r; Tabula, AA3v-AA6r; Jacobus Maria Calcaterra. [Verse], 4 elegiac distichs; Johannes Baptista Pius. [Introduction addressed to the reader], a1r; Johannes Baptista Pius. [Notes] captions "De comædia [sic]" and "De personis", a1r and a1v-a2r; Johannes Baptista Pius. "Plauti vita", a2r; "De comædia [sic] ex interprete Aristophanis", a Latin translation of material from the Greek scholia on Aristophanes, a2r; [Pseudo-] Hephaistio. "De uersibus comicis ex enchiridio Ephestionis", a2v; Priscianus Cae; title: sariensis. De metris fabularum Terentii et aliorum comicorum, caption "De versibus comicis ratio", a2v-a4v; Rufinus. Commentarium in metra Terentiana, a4v-a6r; [Platonius]. [De differentia comediarum], caption "Ex commentario Aristophanis de differentia comædiarum [sic]", a6r-v; [Notes on the different ages and the invention of Comedy], incipit "Comædia [sic] partim est antiqua, partim noua" and "Comædiam [sic] inuentam fuisse dicunt a Sussarione", Latin translations of material from Greek scholia on Aristophanes, a6v; "Poetae Comici", incipit "Horum illustrissimi sunt Epicharmus, Magnes, Cratinus", a6v; Titus Maccius Plautus. Comoediae, edited and with commentary by Johannes Baptista Pius, b1r-cc6r; Johannes Baptista Pius. [Epilogue addressed to the reader], cc6r; Johannes Baptista Pius. "Retracta recognitaque nonnulla ab eodem interprete Pio ex diuersis comediis primumque ex Milite glorioso", cc6v-cc8v; Johannes Salandus. [Verse], 11elegiac distichs, cc9r; Johannes Franciscus Corp; title: ellus. [Verse], 10 elegiac distichs, cc9r; Alexander Gabuardus de Turcella. [Verses addressed to the reader], two sets of 3 elegiac distichs, cc9v; colophon, cc9v; printer's device, cc9v; printer's register, cc10r. For a detailed list of Plautus's comedies, see Bod-inc, P-357.