TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS (c. 190-159 B.C.). Comoediae (with commentary). Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 11 February 1499. Chancery folio, 297 x 205 mm. (11 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.), seventeenth-century (?) German binding of parchment from a twelfth-century breviary with diastemmatic neumes, over pasteboard, modern vellum stiff chemise and slipcase; a few old repairs to spine, upper edge of title woodcut, hole to first two leaves affecting title woodcut and five words on verso, upper corner of last leaf torn catching two words, three short marginal tears, soiling and fraying to first and last leaves, occasional light mostly marginal foxing, a few small marginal dampstains . Collation: [a]6 b-c8 d-z6 A-F6. 178 leaves, with signatures and foliation. Types: 17:145G (headlines and capitals), 22:89R (text); 23:64B R (commentary), 4:48G (interlinear gloss). 72 lines of commentary surrounding text, with headlines. Spaces for initials with guide letters. Title woodcut of a theater with a play in progress, 6 full-page woodcuts showing personae of the different comedies, 158 smaller woodcuts (including repeats), all but three composed of five assembled blocks. A reprint of Grüninger's 1496 edition, using the same woodblocks, which bear some resemblance to the cuts from the first illustrated edition of Terence, printed by Johann Trechsel in Lyons in 1493. The Grüninger woodcuts were however highly innovative in their extensive use of hatched parallel lines to add shading and dimension. Cuts in a similar style were used in two further editions of the classics published by Grüninger, his 1498 Horace and 1502 Virgil, and together these works initiated a new style in book illustration. HC 15432*; Polain 3670; Schreiber 5332; Schramm XX, ABb. 240-338; Proctor 488; BMC I, 113 (IB 1480); Goff T-101. Provenance : Moritz von Bethmann, very large lithographed armorial bookplate.
TERENTIUS AFER, PUBLIUS (c. 190-159 B.C.). Comoediae (with commentary). Strassburg: Johann (Reinhard) Grüninger, 11 February 1499. Chancery folio, 297 x 205 mm. (11 11/16 x 8 1/8 in.), seventeenth-century (?) German binding of parchment from a twelfth-century breviary with diastemmatic neumes, over pasteboard, modern vellum stiff chemise and slipcase; a few old repairs to spine, upper edge of title woodcut, hole to first two leaves affecting title woodcut and five words on verso, upper corner of last leaf torn catching two words, three short marginal tears, soiling and fraying to first and last leaves, occasional light mostly marginal foxing, a few small marginal dampstains . Collation: [a]6 b-c8 d-z6 A-F6. 178 leaves, with signatures and foliation. Types: 17:145G (headlines and capitals), 22:89R (text); 23:64B R (commentary), 4:48G (interlinear gloss). 72 lines of commentary surrounding text, with headlines. Spaces for initials with guide letters. Title woodcut of a theater with a play in progress, 6 full-page woodcuts showing personae of the different comedies, 158 smaller woodcuts (including repeats), all but three composed of five assembled blocks. A reprint of Grüninger's 1496 edition, using the same woodblocks, which bear some resemblance to the cuts from the first illustrated edition of Terence, printed by Johann Trechsel in Lyons in 1493. The Grüninger woodcuts were however highly innovative in their extensive use of hatched parallel lines to add shading and dimension. Cuts in a similar style were used in two further editions of the classics published by Grüninger, his 1498 Horace and 1502 Virgil, and together these works initiated a new style in book illustration. HC 15432*; Polain 3670; Schreiber 5332; Schramm XX, ABb. 240-338; Proctor 488; BMC I, 113 (IB 1480); Goff T-101. Provenance : Moritz von Bethmann, very large lithographed armorial bookplate.
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