Terenti[us]
Subtitle: cu[m] directorio vocabuloru[m], sententiaru[m] artis comice, glosa i[n]terlineali, come[n]tarijs Donato, Guidone, Ascensio
Publisher: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger
Published: 1499
Place of publication: Strasbourg
Language: lat
Work titles: Works
Notes: Edited by Johannes Curtius.

Includes the commentaries of Aelius Donatus, Guy Jouenneaux, and Jodocus Badius.

Colophon (leaf F6r): Impressum in imperiali ac libera vrbe Argentina per Ioannem Grüninger. Ad illam forma[m] vt intuenti iocundior, atq[ue] intellectu facilior esset Per Ioannem Curtum ex Eberspach redactum. Anno a natiuitate d[omi]ni. 1499 Tertio ydus Februarij.

Signatures: a⁶ b-c⁸ d-z⁶ A-F⁶.

Numbers [CXXXI]-[CXXXIX] omitted; several other errors in foliation.

Some copies have a variant colophon with the incorrect reading: Ioannen Grüninger.

Xylographic title-page, with inserted letterpress subtitle, incorporating full-page ill. of a theater interior.

The woodcut ill. include 7 full-page cuts (1 at the beginning of each play); and smaller cuts at the beginning of each scene, each composed of combinations of 2, 3, or 5 blocks.

Text surrounded by 72 lines of commentary.

Initial spaces, with guide-letters.

"Therentii vita excerpta de dictis. D.F. Petrarcha": leaves F5v-F6r.

Includes verses by Jacob Locher and Heinrich Bebel.

Includes indexes.

Hain-Copinger, 15432*.

Proctor, 488.

Goff, T-101.

Schreiber, W.L. Manuel, 5332.

BM 15th cent., I, 113 (IB.1480).

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), it00101000.

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 186

Bequest; William King Richardson; 1951; 50R-67.

Autograph of Henry Hucks Gibbs dated 1863, with his personal armorial bookplate and armorial bookplate of Aldenham House, Herts., his country seat (see his A Catalogue of some Printed Books and Manuscripts at St. Dunstan’s, Regent’s Park, and Aldenham House, Herts. [London, 1888], p. 176).

This copy has error "Ioannen" in colophon.

Initial spaces not filled in; without rubrication.

Bound in modern brown morocco by F. Bedford, gilt, edges gilt.