M. Plauti linguae latinae principis comoediae XX recens ex collatione multorum codicum
Subtitle: q[ui] tum calamo scripti tum formulis excusi habeba[n]tur singulari diligentia recognitae : item eaedem comoediae o[mn]ibus fere locis co[m]mentationibus ornantur
By: quas Bernardus Saracenus adq[ue] Ioannes Petrus Valla scriptas olim reliquere : nec desunt quoq[ue] obseruatio[n]es quaepiam Pij Bononiensis sparsim collocatae cu[m] auctor obscuriusculus occurrere videtur ...
Contributors: Saracenus, Bernardus, active 1500; Valla, Giovanni Pietro, active 1500; Pio, Giovanni Battista, -1540?; Soardi, Lazzaro de', approximately 1450-1517, printer
Published: 1511
Language: lat
Work titles: Works
Notes: Imprint from colophon.

Title within wooduct ornamental border and printed on a scroll; printer's mark (Kristeller 301) in colophon; initials.

Signatures: 2a¹⁰ A-Z⁸ a-c⁸ d¹⁰ 2A¹⁰ 2B-2L⁸.

Leaves LXXXIII-LXXXIX (2nd group) incorrectly numbered CLXXXIII-CLXXXIX [leaf LXXXVI numbered CCXXVI].

Includes index.

Final leaf is blank.

The ornamental woodcut border around the title is from the 1493 Malermi Bible.

First illustrated edition of Plautus' comedies with full-page woodcut of a Roman theater and numerous woodcut illustrations throughout.

Adams P1481

Sander 5748

Binding: tan morocco; boards tooled in gilt with double fillets in a panel design; fleurons at corners and a central lozenge; stamped F. Bedford (Francis Bedford) at foot of inside front cover; spine gilt with five raised bands; all edges gilt; some notes and underlining in brown ink on leaves XI-XII (first series); title page with a small inscription below the title a small letter M in the lower margins.