Collection ID: 0023 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Comediae

Authors

• Terence (http://viaf.org/viaf/5940148947872254950006)

Other related names

• Phillipps, Thomas, Sir, 1792-1872, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/73979081)
• Lewis, John Frederick, former owner (http://viaf.org/viaf/63874811/)
• Lewis, Anne Baker, former owner

Funders

• Council on Library and Information Resources

Call number

Lewis E 196
(Philadelphia, United States, Free Library of Philadelphia, John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• https://know.freelibrary.org/Record/1611808
• deRicci: 170

Publisher

Free Library of Philadelphia

Language

Latin

Origin

Place

Italy

Summary

This plain little manuscript contains a copy of the Roman playwright Terence's Comediae, although "Adelphoe" is imperfect and "Phormio" is missing entirely. The text is virtually unadorned, with simple colored initials the only decorative elements. Red ink rubrics distinguish the speakers in the texts, and running headings track the titles of the comedies. This manuscript was made in Italy in the late twelfth or early thirteenth century, but re-uses parchment from an earlier book; it is a palimpsest. The original text, in a gothic script with colored initials and chapter numbers, is visible throughout. It has not been identified.

Notes

• Glossed throughout
   
• Occasional manicules
   
• Annotation on fol. 10r mentions the humanist Lorenzo Valla
   
• Evidence of historic damage and repairs
   

Extent

I+110+i; 125 x 94 mm bound to 134 x 102 mm

Foliation

Modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto

Collation

1-11 (10)

Support

Parchment

Catchwords

Regular catchwords on lower right versos, every ten folios, most partly or almost entirely trimmed

Binding

Black morocco, stamped in gold on the spine: "...COMEDIÆ COD..."; with blue silk ribbon bookmark; in a red morocco slipcase by H. Zucker of Philadelphia, stamped in gold on spine: "`TERENTII COMOEDIAE LATIN MS XIV. CENTURY A PALIMPSEST"

Layout

One column of up to thirty lines; ruled in hard point and ink; visible pricking; written area: 95 x 62 mm; rubrication distinguishes speakers; running headings throughout

Decoration

Simple colored capitals only

Script

Gothic--rotunda

Provenance

• Possibly lot 283 in the Abate Celotti sale, London March 13, 1825; Sir Thomas Phillips, Middle Hill, c. 1825; sold to Maggs, London 1899; sold by Sotheby's, London June 25, 1917; John Frederick Lewis, Philadelphia; given by his widow, Anne Baker Lewis, to the Free Library of Philadelphia in 1936
   

Related resources

• De Ricci, Seymour, with the assistance of W.J. Wilson, Census of Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in the United States and Canada, vol. 2 (New York,: H. W. Wilson, 1935-40), p. 2056, no. 170.
• Free Library of Philadelphia, A Descriptive Catalogue of the John Frederick Lewis Collection of European Manuscripts in the Free Library of Philadelphia, compiled by Edwin Wolf, 2nd, with an introduction by Dr. A.S.W. Rosenbach (Philadelphia: The Free Library, 1937), p. 215, no. 196.

Keywords

• 12th century
• 13th century
• Italian
• Italy
• Damage
• Palimpsest
• Literature -- Prose

Licenses

• Text

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Andria (the Girl from Andria); incipit: Natus in excelsis rectuis cartaginus... [fol. 1r]; explicit: ...intus despondebitur intus transigetur Siquid est quod restat. Et ualete et plaudire ego caliopus recensiui [fol. 25r]
• fol. 25r — Eunuchus (The Eunuch); incipit: Meretrix adolscente cuius mutuo amore... [fol. 25r]; explicit: Nichil praeter missum est ite hac. Vos ualete et plaudite caliopus recensiui [fol. 51v]
• fol. 52r — Heautontimoroumenos (The Self-Tormentor); incipit: In meditiam profiscisci gnatum cliniam... [fol. 52r]; explicit: Siro ut ignoscas uolo que mea causa recit Fiat ualete et plaudire caliopius recensiui [fol. 80r]
• fol. 80r — Adelphia (The Brothers); incipit: Duos cum haberet demea adulescetulos... [fol. 80r]; explicit: Sino habeat in istac finem faciat. es. istuc recte. Plaudite ego caliopius recensiui [fol. 105r]
• fol. 105v — Argumentum; incipit: Ex duobus fratribus ale locuplex duxit uxorem... [fol. 105v]; explicit: Geta Sat est hem istuc serua. et uerbum uerbo par pari ut respondeas ne te iratus tuis seuis [fol. 110v]

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Print catalog entry
• Inside front cover — Notations in ink and pencil
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Stamp, Thomas Phillipps Collection
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation in pencil transcribing opening of Andria on facing page
• fol. 4r — Manicule
• fol. 64r — Marginal drawing, face
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Stamp, Thomas Phillipps Collection
• Flyleaf 1 recto — Notation in pencil
• Flyleaf 1 verso — Notation in pencil transcribing opening of Andria on facing page
• Inside back cover — Print catalog entry
• Inside back cover — Notation in pencil