Author: [Terence] Terentius Afer, Publius (Schrevel, Cornelius, ed.; Donatus, Aelius, comm.):

Title: Comoediae Sex. Post optimas editiones emendatae accedunt, Aelii Donati, commentarius integer cum selectis Guiti & variorum notis multo auctoribus, quan antehac indices tertia sere parte locupletiores Accurante cor. Schrevelio.

Publication: Lugd. Batavorum [Leiden]: Franciscum Hackium, 1657

Description: 8vo, pp.[xlviii], 864, [lxiv]. Engraved title-page, woodcut initials and endpieces, final leaf blank. Occasional light spots but generally clean. Contemporary vellum, double-line filets to spine, gilt frame, gilt oval centrepiece of Justitia to each board, edges slightly overlapped. A few slight marks, ties lost, some short notes to ffep, very good indeed.

Third edition of Schrevel's 'variorum', which gives as much attention to the playwright's earlier commentators (the fourth century A.D. grammarian, Aelius Donatus and the sixth century commentator Eugraphius) as to more recent commentators. The playwright Terence (d. 159 B.C.) was born into slavery at Carthage and brought to Rome, where he was freed, taking his old master's name. His six comedies, which stand out for their particular naturalistic style, were admired right through the Middle Ages for their moral arguments, and were still on school curricula in the nineteenth century.

Bibliography: Dibdin II, 473; Schweiger, 1065.

Reference Number: [55137]

Price: £200

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