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LOT 31:
1568 COMEDIES BY TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS VELLUM BOUND 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE
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1568 COMEDIES BY TITUS MACCIUS PLAUTUS VELLUM BOUND 16TH CENTURY ANTIQUE
Comoedie viginti:
post Joannis Sambuci diligentiam, cum veteribus & novissimis codicibus collatae...
Basileae, Ex officina Hervagiana, per Eusebiu[m] Episcopium; 1568
First Sambucus edition by Celio Secondo Curione.
Work containing 20 comedies by Titus Maccius Plautus.
Ref. Graesse V, 327 ; VD16 P 3391
Size 4.5 by 6.5"
[16] + 813 pp.
Full vellum binding, boards with blind tooled design in the center and flower ornaments in corners on both covers,
spine with 5 ribs, speckled edges.
A few spots on front cover and spine, upper capital slightly torn
Some toning and foxing
Text in Latin
Titus Maccius Plautus (c. 254 – 184 BC) was a Roman playwright of the Old Latin period.
His comedies are the earliest Latin literary works to have survived in their entirety.
He wrote Palliata comoedia, the genre devised by Livius Andronicus, the innovator of Latin literature.
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