[Annotated copy of Terence's works]

Name:

Terence

Timespan:

Early works to 1800

Date:

1512

Description:

Printed edition of the comedies of Terence (Pub[lii] Terentii comici nobilissimi sex q[uae] exta[n]t fabule ..., Leipzig: Melchior Lotters, 1512) with extensive interlinear and marginal annotations, including summaries of each scene. Numerous marginal notes damaged by trimming.

Language:

Latin

Provenance:

Formerly owned by Jean Jules Olinger (armorial bookplate inside upper cover).; Transferred from Culture Class collection, University of Pennsylvania, 2012.; Olinger, Jean Jules, 1883-1956, former owner.

Subject:

Humanism -- Germany; Latin drama (Comedy) -- Early works to 1800; Latin drama (Comedy); Humanism

Resource Type:

Text

Form/Genre:

Codices (bound manuscripts); Annotations; Plays (document genre); Hybrid books; Manuscripts, Latin; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)

Physical Description:

108 leaves : paper; 278 x 190 mm bound to 285 x 211 mm

Geographic Subject:

Germany

Rights:

http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/

Notes:

Ms. codex.; Title supplied by cataloger.; Table of contents: 1. f.1r-2r: [Title page and biography of Terence]; Table of contents: 2. f.2r-19r: Andria.; Table of contents: 3. f.19v-38r: Eunuchus.; Table of contents: 4. f.38r-56r: Heauton timorumenos.; Table of contents: 5. f.56r-73v: Adelphi.; Table of contents: 6. f.73v-88v: Hecyra.; Table of contents: 7. f.88v-107r: Phormio.; Table of contents: 8. f.107r-108v: [Essay on comedy]; Collation: Paper, 108; 1-18⁶; gatherings have printed signatures A-I, K-S; [1-108], modern foliation in pencil, lower right recto.; Script: Annotations written in Gothic cursive with some notes in a calligraphic script, in multiple hands.; Decoration: Underlining of short passages of printed text in red, green, or blue ink in a section from the end of Eunuchus into the beginning of Adelphi (f. 38r-57r); marginal notes in red ink in Eunuchus (f. 25r-35v); initials touched with red on one page (f. 38v); various manicules throughout.; Binding: Later parchment.; Origin: Probably written in Leipzig, soon after the publication of the printed work in June 1512 (Zacour-Hirsch).; Printed edition is cataloged separately under the title Pub. Terentij comici nobilissimi sex: q[uae] exta[n]t: fabul[ae].; Latin, with a few notes in German.

Physical Location:

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Oversize Ms. Codex 1618