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TERENCE. […] *Comico Carmine*. In the colophon: *Impressum in nobili Heluecior vrbe Argentina Per Ioanné Grüninger mira etiam arte ac diligentia. Anno M CCCCC III. XV kalendas Aprilis.* [Strasbourg, Johann Grüninger, April 15, 1503]. Small folio, calfskin, decorated ribbed spine (17th-century binding). A6, B8, C-Z6, AA6, BB4, CC6. Third Latin edition of Terence’s comedies with commentaries by Aelius Donatus, published by the famous Strasbourg printer Johannes Reinhard, also known as Hans Grüninger, and illustrated with woodcuts reprinted from previous editions (1496 and 1499). Title page adorned with a large woodcut titled “Theatrum,” six large full-page woodcuts (A6v, F2, L1v, O2, T1v, Y6v), and 142 smaller ones, some of which are repeated. Some figures in the woodcuts have been identified in brown ink. A handwritten bookplate from 1578 on the title page; and a handwritten bookplate by an 18th-century lawyer from Metz on the flyleaf (“Me Cossins, attorney at law, Place de Chambre, Maison les Messageries”). Minor restoration at the top of the first spine; tears with no loss, restored on ff. M1, M5, N1, R3, R4, V1, V3, V6, CC4; a few small wormholes; handwritten bookplate erased on the title page. Adams, 304; Davies German II, 407; Brunet V, 710.
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