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Comedia.

Accession number
PML 202
Creator
Terence.
Object title

Comedia.

Published

Ulm : Conrad Dinckmut, 1486.

Description

[104] leaves : illus. (woodcuts) ; 29 cm (fol.)

Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Hernach volget ain Maisterliche und wolgesetzte Comedia zelesen vnd zehören lüstig vnd kurtzwylig.
Colophon (leaf p4r): Dise Comedia hat Hanns Nythart zů Ulm lassen trucken den Cůnrad Dinkmůt. Nach Crists gebůrt .M.cccc.lxxxvi. Jar.
Printed in Dinckmut's types 3:147G (text) and 2:109G (commentary).
Collation: a-b⁸ c⁶ d-e⁸ f⁶ g-h⁸ i-m⁶ n⁸ o-p⁶: 104 leaves, leaves a1 and p5-6 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Translated and with a commentary by Hans Nythart (see Verfasserlexikon VI 899-903).
Woodcuts.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.3 x 20.2 cm
PML copy missing 1 leaf: p6 (blank).
Binding
Plain beech boards (29.2 x 21 cm), sewn on 3 supports; repaired by Duprez Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands. 2 clasps, wanting. Binding formerly contained an antiphonal manuscript fragment (see Bennett catalogue description).
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Unrubricated, rubrication unrealized. Annotations: One largely illegible German inscription (by Ruder?) (leaf a5r).
Provenance
Jacob Ruder von Junckholz, inscription, 1602 (leaf a1r); William Morris (1834-1896), Kelmscott House, Hammersmith, booklabel (front pastedown); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification
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Department