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Title

Terentii Comedie

Authors

• Terence
• Terence
• Terence
• Terence
• Terence
• Terence
• Terence

Call number

Ms. Codex 239
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9915517923503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86167227
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/1551792

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Latin

Origin

Date

ca. 1500

Place

Germany

Summary

The six comedies of Terence.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title from explicit (f. 199r).
   
• "Therentius" appears at upper right corner of f. 2r (can be read through the missing section of f. 1).
   
• Incipit: Natus in excelsis tectis Carthaginis alte / Romanis ducibus bellica preda fui / ... (f. 1r). (The manuscript begins with a six-line epitaph for Terence; it is followed immediately by the Argumentum for the Andria.).
   
• Cover boards warped. Many leaves shows various stains. Piece missing from f. 1, upper outer corner; appears to have been cut out, but with no evident loss of text. Trimming has caused loss of running heads and some marginal text. Fraying at edges has caused some loss of marginal text on f. 2r-v.
   

Extent

200 leaves : 195 x 146 (129 x 81) mm. bound to 204 x 158 mm

Foliation

Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 200 + i (contemporary paper); [1-200]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Paper

Binding

Contemporary stamped pigskin over wooden boards. Remains of green cloth ties. "Terentius" written on front cover in capitals in what appears to be pencil and in a later hand. Edges of book block dyed blue.

Layout

Written in 16-20 long lines, with marginal and interlinear notations.

Decoration

2-line to 5-line initials with foliate decoration in green, pink, brown, and yellow (f. 1r, 2v, 37r, 106v, 139r, 172v); red, green and blue initials throughout, some with penwork ornamentation in brown (for example, f. 7v, 60r), including one with an animal (f. 171r); red (f. 2v-90r) or blue (f. 82v-94r) used to indicate change of speaker.

Script

Written in a humanistic script.

Provenance

• German notations on the inside upper and lower covers, in pencil and fairly recent in date, suggest that this manuscript was in the possession of a German library or book dealer. The notation on the inside lower cover appears to be in the same hand as the folio numbers.
   
• Sold by Herbert Langet Cie., 1953.
   

Subjects topical

• Latin drama--Early works to 1800
• Latin literature--Early works to 1800
• Latin poetry--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Plays (document genre)
• Manuscripts, Latin--15th century
• Manuscripts, Latin--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• 16th century
• Literature -- Poetry
• Germany
• German
• Paper
• Drama

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Andria, f. 1r
• fol. 37r — Eunuchus, f. 37r
• fol. 72v — Heauton timoroumenos, f. 72v
• fol. 106v — Adelphi, f. 106v
• fol. 138r — Phormio, f. 138r
• fol. 171r — Hecyra, f. 171r

Decorations

• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 1r
• fol. 2v — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 2v
• fol. 3r — Manicule, f. 3r
• fol. 5r — Manicule, f. 5r
• fol. 7v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 7v
• fol. 8r — Manicule, f. 8r
• fol. 8v — Manicule, f. 8v
• fol. 9r — Manicule, f. 9r
• fol. 9r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 9r
• fol. 11r — Manicule, f. 11r
• fol. 12v — Manicule, f. 12v
• fol. 13r — Manicule, f. 13r
• fol. 14r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 14r
• fol. 17r — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 17r
• fol. 32r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 32r
• fol. 33r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 33r
• fol. 33r — Manicule, f. 33r
• fol. 34r — Manicule, f. 34r
• fol. 37r — Decorated initial, Initial M, f. 37r
• fol. 37r — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 37r
• fol. 39r — Manicule, f. 39r
• fol. 43r — Decorated initial, Initial F, f. 43r
• fol. 44r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 44r
• fol. 46r — Decorated initial, Initial O, f. 46r
• fol. 49v — Manicule, f. 49v
• fol. 50r — Manicule, f. 50r
• fol. 52v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 52v
• fol. 55r — Manicule, f. 55r
• fol. 60r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 60r
• fol. 60r — Manicule, f. 60r
• fol. 62v — Manicule, f. 62v
• fol. 63r — Manicule, f. 63r
• fol. 63v — Manicule, f. 63v
• fol. 64r — Manicule, f. 64r
• fol. 65r — Manicule, f. 65r
• fol. 66r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 66r
• fol. 71r — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 71r
• fol. 72r — Manicule, f. 72r
• fol. 74r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 74r
• fol. 77r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 77r
• fol. 78r — Manicule, f. 78r
• fol. 79v — Manicule, f. 79v
• fol. 80r — Manicule, f. 80r
• fol. 81r — Manicule, f. 81r
• fol. 82v — Manicule, f. 82v
• fol. 83r — Manicule, f. 83r
• fol. 84r — Manicule, f. 84r
• fol. 84v — Decorated initial, Initial L, f. 84v
• fol. 85r — Manicule, f. 85r
• fol. 87r — Manicule, f. 87r
• fol. 87v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 87v
• fol. 89r — Manicule, f. 89r
• fol. 98r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 98r
• fol. 102r — Decorated initial, Initial I, f. 102r
• fol. 104v — Decorated initial, Initial S, f. 104v
• fol. 105r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 105r
• fol. 105r — Manicule, f. 105r
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 106v
• fol. 106v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 106v
• fol. 108r — Manicule, f. 108r
• fol. 108v — Manicule, f. 108v
• fol. 109r — Manicule, f. 109r
• fol. 117v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 117v
• fol. 120r — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 120r
• fol. 125v — Decorated initial, Initial D, f. 125v
• fol. 130v — Decorated initial, Initial H, f. 130v
• fol. 130v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 130v
• fol. 139r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 139r
• fol. 142r — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 142r
• fol. 150v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 150v
• fol. 153r — Manicule, f. 153r
• fol. 155r — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 155r
• fol. 161v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 161v
• fol. 168v — Decorated initial, Initial Q, f. 168v
• fol. 171r — Decorated initial, Initial U, f. 171r
• fol. 171r — Inhabited initial, Initial H, Animal, f. 171r
• fol. 172v — Decorated initial, Initial P, f. 172v
• fol. 182r — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 182r
• fol. 183v — Decorated initial, Initial A, f. 183v
• fol. 188v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 188v
• fol. 193v — Decorated initial, Initial N, f. 193v
• fol. 196r — Decorated initial, Initial E, f. 196r