Accession number
PML 52923
Creator
Terence.
Object title
Comoediae.
Published
Taurini : impressus per egregium magistrum Johannem Fabri Lingonensem, .M.cccc.lxxviii: die martis .xxiii. Junii [23 June 1478]
Description
[112] leaves ; 30.5 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, 1962.
Notes
Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf o7r: Explicit Terentius Taurini impressus per egregium magistrum Johannem fabri Lingone[n]sem .M.cccc.lxxviii: die martis .xxiii. Junii feliciter: Amen.
Printed in Fabri's type 2:114R.
Signatures: a-o⁸: 112 leaves, leaf o8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 6 leaves: a3, i8, o3-4, o6 and o8, with a section cut away at colophon (repaired).
Imprint from colophon, leaf o7r: Explicit Terentius Taurini impressus per egregium magistrum Johannem fabri Lingone[n]sem .M.cccc.lxxviii: die martis .xxiii. Junii feliciter: Amen.
Printed in Fabri's type 2:114R.
Signatures: a-o⁸: 112 leaves, leaf o8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio and Royal quarto.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29 x 20 cm.
PML copy missing 6 leaves: a3, i8, o3-4, o6 and o8, with a section cut away at colophon (repaired).
Binding
18th-century English blind- and gilt-tooled sprinkled brown calf over paper boards (30.5 x 21 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Contemporary rubrication, red initials. Annotations: Contemporary marginal and interlinear notations, sporadic but heavy on leaves b1v-b3r, and foliation. Pen trials and drawings at colophon.
Provenance
[?Thomas Herbert (1656-1733), Earl of Pembroke, binding (with pencil inscription for spine label, leaf a1r, but no Pembroke shelfmark), not in 1914 Pembroke sale;] John Quicke (1724-1776), signature (front endleaf 1 verso) and Quicke family of Newton St. Cyres, Devon, armorial bookplate (front pastedown), with purchase price inscription: "18s 11d [??]/1745/6"; unidentified shelfmark(?): O8-12 (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from A & B Booksellers on the Lathrop C. Harper Fund, Nov. 1962.
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