M. Accius Plautus ex fide atque auctoritate complurium librorum manu scriptorum opera Dionys. Lambini monstro liensis emendatus: ad eodemque commentariis explicatus et nunc primum in lucem editus. Adiecta sunt Plautina loca ex antiquis grammaticis collecta: et ex commentario antiquarum lectionum Iusti Lipsii multorum Plauti locorum illustrationes et emendationes. - Additi quoque sunt duo indices copiosissimi: prior verborum, locutionum et sententiarum: posterior eorum quae commentariis D. Lambini continetur

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Author:  Marco Accio Plauto

Publisher:  Apud Ioannem Macaeum

Place of printing:  Lutetiae

Year of publication:  1576

Product Condition:
Binding in half-leather with corners, and the thiol and gold decorations to spine, in a bad condition: the headset upper damaged, spelature to the spine, hinges and corners at the edge of the dishes, dust, and stains on the dishes. The maps in general are well preserved (some quinterni burnished) with pale blooms irregularly distributed; rare handwritten notes ancient to the margins. Report: small tear to the bottom corner inside of the cover page without faults; brown dot n.t. p1-q2; small gora moisture of varying intensity in the lower outer nn5-uu6; little hole of moth in the vicinity of the outer margin ff3-kk3; small lack at the bottom right corner outside of bbbb2

Pages:  (8), 1118, (78)

Format:  In the fourth

Dimensions (cm):
Height:  33
Width:  23

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The first edition of elegant and well-balanced typography, published posthumously and completed by Jacques Helias, of this monumental and erudite commentary on the Comedies of Plautus to Denis Lambin, a famous French philologist of the SIXTEENTH century. The twenty comedies published (Amphitruo, Asinaria, Aulularia, Capteivei, Curculio, Casina, Cistellaria, Epidicus, Bacchides, Mostellaria, Menaechmi, Miles gloriosus, Mercator, Pseudolus, Poenulus, Persa, Rudens, Stichus, Trinummus, Truculentus) are preceded by the list of Dramatis personae and from Argumentum (also in two versions); every scene is accompanied by extensive notes, philological. The volume is introduced by a dedication Clarissimo et eruditiss V. Germano Valenti Guellio PP. Senators ampliss. Germanus Lambinus S. D.; the following Iacobus Helias Graecarum Litterarum Doctor Regius lectori (in which he gives an account of the premature death of Lambin) and a Poem in the Greek Lambin in praise of Plautus, with Latin translation. The texts commented on the Comedies of the following Indexes: Loci ex XLI Amissis Plauti Comoediis, to grammaticis latinis mentioned; Iusti Lipsii Antiquae lectiones quibus varies Plauti loca illustrantur aut emendantur; Index Vocum elocutionumque quae sunt in contextu M. Accii Plauti, amplissimus et locupletissimus; Index rerum et are notatu et scitu digniorum quae sunt in Lambini Commentariis in omnes M. Acc. Plauti quae extant, Comoedias; Wrong; Poetry In Dionysii Lambini obitum. After the Privilege du Roy, the Colophon: Excudebat Ioannes le Blanc junior, Typographus: Impensis honesti viri Ioannis Macaei. M. D. LXXVI. Mense Octobr. Beautiful brand typography on the cover page and the beautiful drop caps and headers, engraved

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