P. Terentii Afri poetae lepidissimi comoediae sex
Subtitle: ex emendatissimis ac fide dignissimis codicibus summa diligentia castigatae : metris in suum ordinem recte restitutis, ac uarijs lectionibus in margine appositis ex collatione postremarum editionum Aldini & Gryphiani exemplaris : elenchum interpretum qui in has comoedias doctae simul & eridite scripserunt proxima subinde pagina demonstrabit : eorum quae in his interpretum commentariis annotata sunt index amplissimus : quae omnia multo quàm antea in alijs usque nunc impressis mira diligentia excusa fuere
Contributors: Erasmus, Desiderius, -1536; Melanchthon, Philip, 1497-1560; Gouveia, António de, approximately 1505-1566?; Donatus, Aelius; Calfurnio, Giovanni, -1503; Baarland, Adriaan van, 1486-1538; Latomus, Bartholomaeus, 1485?-1570; Marso, Pietro, 1441 or 1442-approximately 1511; Rivius, Johann, 1500-1553; Dolet, Etienne, 1509-1546; Glareanus, Henricus, 1488-1563; Joannes, Tacuinus, de Tridino, engraver; Ruffinelli, Venturino, -1558, printer; Featherstonhaugh, George William, 1780-1866; Greenwell, William, 1820-1918, former owner
Publisher: Apud Venturinum Ruffinellum
Published: 1546
Place of publication: Venetiis
Language: lat
Number of pages: 222
Subjects: Latin drama (Comedy); Wood-engraving, Italian; Specimens; Wood-engraving
Other titles: Comoediae sex
Work titles: Works
Notes: Reprint of P. Terentii Afri poetae lepidissimi comoediae Andria, Eunuchus, Heautontimorumenos, Adelphi, Hecyra, Phormio ... Venetiis : Apud Hieronymum Scotum, 1545.

Imprint from colophon.

Date of imprint supplied in roman numerals on t.p. and in colophon.

Woodcut title vignette (printer's device of Neptune with trident riding sea dragon); ornamental woodcut initials; preliminary text in two cols.; plays in large type in center of page, surrounded by columns of commentary in smaller type; roman, italic, and Greek types.

Commentary on the plays by Melanchthon, Erasmus, Gouveia, Donatus, Calfurnio, Baarland, Latomus, Marso, Rivius, Dolet, and Glareanus.

At head of each play is a large illustrated panel of eight small wood-engravings, arranged in two horizontal rows of four, showing actors in contemporary costumes on a 16th-century stage in groups which so accurately represent the action of the play that they "must have been taken directly from actual productions"; cf. A. Nicholl, The development of the theatre (1927).

Wood-engravings originally cut by Joannes Tacuinus for the 1522 ed., based on illustrations in the 1493 ed. printed in Lyon by Johannes Treschsel.

Errata: verso of leaf [28].

Signatures: *⁸ **⁶ A-2C⁸ 2D⁶.

Essling, V.M. L'art de la gravure sur bois, pt. 1, v. 2, no. 886

Schweiger, F.L.A. Handbuch der classichen bibliographie, 2:1059-1060

BN 184:224

In Latin.
Table of contents: title: Andria; title: Eunuchus; title: Heauton timorumenos; title: Adelphi; title: Hecyra; title: Phormio.