Franklin

Terentii Comedie.

Author/Creator:
Terence.
Format/Description:
Manuscript
200 leaves : paper, color illustrations ; 195 x 146 (129 x 81) mm bound to 204 x 158 mm
Production:
[Germany], [1500?]
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Subjects:
Latin drama -- Early works to 1800.
Latin literature -- Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry -- Early works to 1800.
Latin poetry.
Latin literature.
Latin drama.
Form/Genre:
Codices.
Plays (document genre)
Manuscripts, Latin.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.
Language:
Latin.
Summary:
The six comedies of Terence.
Contents:
1. f.1r-36v: Andria.
2. f.37r-72r: Eunuchus.
3. f.72v-106r: Heauton timoroumenos.
4. f.106v-137v: Adelphi.
5. f.138r-170v: Phormio.
6. f.171r-199r: Hecyra.
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.).
Foliation: Paper, i (contemporary paper) + 200 + i (contemporary paper); [1-200]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Layout: Written in 16-20 long lines, with marginal and interlinear notations.
Script: Written in a humanistic script.
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.
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.
Origin: Written in Germany, ca. 1500 (Zacour-Hirsch).
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.
Penn 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.
Cited in:
Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800 (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1965), p. 16 (Ms. Latin 72).
Cited as:
UPenn Ms. Codex 239.
Contains:
Terence. Andria.
Terence. Eunuchus.
Terence. Heauton timorumenos.
Terence. Adelphi.
Terence. Phormio.
Terence. Hecyra.
OCLC:
155963721