Fc.7.08
Comedies
M. AccI Plauti Sarsinatis Umbri Comoediae XX. superstites. Ex solis Msstis codd. archi-palatinæ bibliothecæ pristinæ antiquitati fideliter restitutæ: ac notis tam practicis, quàm criticis, sedulò illustratæ. Opera & industria Joh. Philippi Parei. Ejusdem Analecta Plautina, quibus hæc cummaximè editio à virulentis Jani Gruteri cavilationibus ac strophis ritè vindicatur, seorsim exstant.
Portion of title: Comoediae XX
Added title page title: M. AccI Plauti Sarsinatis Umbri Fragmenta: ex ruderibus aniquorum grammaticorum collecta, aucta, & in ordinem, multò quàm antehàc, commodiorem, nitidioremque redacta, notisque illustrata: studio & operâ Joh. Philippi Parei
Francofurti : apud hæredes Jacobi Fischeri., Anno M D XXIII. [1623]
[72], 750, 301, [43] p. ; 4to.
Title page in red and black.
Engraved portrait of the author on t.p.
Head-pieces; woodcut initials; printed marginalia and line numbers.
Additional half title-page: "M. AccI Plauti Sarsinatis Umbri Fragmenta: ex ruderibus aniquorum grammaticorum collecta, aucta, & in ordinem, multò quàm antehàc, commodiorem, nitidioremque redacta, notisque illustrata: studio & operâ Joh. Philippi Parei". New pagination and register.
Includes indexes.
Booklabel of John Reynolds, recording donation to Eton College in 1751.
Ownership inscription on front fly leaf: "Suum cuiq[ue] Tho. Hearne". Possibly belonging to the antiquarian Thomas Hearne, 1678-1735, whose books were sold by Thomas Osborne in 1736.
Contemporary brown lightly sprinkled calf; blind tooled double fillet border; gold tooled single fillet along board edges; blind tooled double fillet on spine; red morocco spine label with gold tooled letters; four raised bands; "1213" written on fore-edge.
Previous shelfmark: Fc.7.8.
T.p. bears inscription "1213 [pi]".
Comedies, Latin Early works to 1800.
Gruterus, Janus, 1560 - 1627 editor.
Reynolds, John, 1671 - 1758 former owner.
Germany Frankfurt
B28271