Plautus, Titus Maccius (ca. 254-184 a.C.n.)
In addition to the Rosarium Jesu et Mariae by the Belgian Carthusian Jacobus van Gruitrode, this small-format codex from the Carthusian Monastery of Basel contains letters by two representatives of the Devotio Moderna, Florens Radewijns and Geert Groote, as well as excerpts from the Bible and from commentaries, various prayers, and diverse shorter and longer fragments of varying content.
Online Since: 10/04/2018
- Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) Found in: Standard description
- Anselm von Canterbury (Author) | Arnulfus, de Boeriis (Author) | Bauer, Albert (Bookbinder) | Bernardus, Claraevallensis (Author) | Carpentarii, Georgius (Librarian) | Conradus, Gemnicensis (Author) | Florentius, Radewijns (Author) | Groote, Geert (Author) | Henricus, de Langenstein (Author) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Jacobus, van Gruitrode (Author) | Louber, Jakob (Librarian) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) | Thomas, de Aquino (Author) | Thomas, von Kempen (Author) | Ubertinus, de Casale (Author) Found in: Standard description
The twenty comedies by Plautus contained in this manuscript were written in the course of the second half of the 15th century in a very careful humanist script. Each comedy begins with a golden initial with bianchi girari. The first page is also decorated with a frame of floral interlace, which is interrupted in the lower part by a laurel crown flanked by two putti; the inside of the frame was left blank and must have been meant to contain the owner's coat of arms. According to a shelfmark on the front pastedown, in the 17th century this manuscript belonged to the Maurist library in Rome.
Online Since: 12/14/2018
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Comoediae 20 Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Comoediae 20 (f. 1-264v)
Explicit: Ei pro scorto supponetur hirquos unctus nausea.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Amphitruo (f. 1-16v)
Incipit: In faciem uersus Amphitrionis Iupiter
Explicit: Nunc spectatores Iouis summi causa clare plaudite.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Asinaria (f. 16v-29v)
Incipit: Hoc agite si uoltis
Explicit: Remur impetrari posse hic plausum sic clarum datis.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Aulularia (f. 29v-41v)
Incipit: Senex auarus
Explicit: uel hercle eneca nunquam hinc feres a me.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Captiui (f. 41v-56)
Incipit: Captus est in pugna Aegionis filius
Explicit: Qui pudicitiae esse uoltis premium. Plausum date.
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Curculio (f. 56-66)
Incipit: Cvrgulio missus Phedromo
Explicit: Quę res bene uortant mihi et uobis. An Spectatores pliaditę
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- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Casina. (f. 66-77)
Incipit: Saluere iubeo spectatores
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- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Murray, Charles Fairfax (Former possessor) | Perrins, Charles William Dyson (Former possessor) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) Found in: Standard description
This late Renaissance Italian humanist manuscript contains excerpts of various works by Latin and Greek authors, among them Pliny, Cicero, Silius Italicus, Plautus, Livy, Horace, Sallust, Plutarch, Seneca and others. Pellegrin, following Tammaro de Marinis, attributes the writing to the copyist Gian Marco Cinico, who worked for the kings of Naples between 1458 and 1494. The different parts are introduced by golden initials with bianchi girari, only partly completed (ff. 1v, 4v, 20r, 22r, 50r, 186v). Some of these bianchi girari are left unfilled on a blue, red, green or black background, others are colored pink, green or blue on a black or golden background. The vine scrolls are inhabited by putti and animals such as rabbits, stags, butterflies or birds. Numerous frames show putti engaged in hunting or other playful activities (e.g., ff. 55r, 79r, 139r, 169r).
Online Since: 12/17/2015
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Comoediae (f. 25-49v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Amphitruo (f. 25-28v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Asinaria (f. 28v-29v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Aulularia (f. 29v-30v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Captiui (f. 30v-33v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Curculio (f. 33v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Casina (f. 33v-35v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Cistellaria (f. 36) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Epidicus (f. 36-36v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Mostellaria (f. 36v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Menaechmi (f. 37-39) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Miles gloriosus (f. 39v-40) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Mercator (f. 40-43) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Pseudolus (f. 43) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Poenulus (f. 43-46) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Persa (f. 46) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Rudens (f. 46v-48) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Stichus (f. 48v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Trinummus (f. 48v) Found in: Standard description
- Plautus, Titus Maccius: Truculentus (f. 48v-49v) Found in: Standard description
- Bodmer, Martin (Former possessor) | Catullus, Gaius Valerius (Author) | Cicero, Marcus Tullius (Author) | Cinico, Giovan Marco (Scribe) | Claudianus, Claudius (Author) | Heilbrun, Georges (Seller) | Hieronymus, Sophronius Eusebius (Author) | Hippocrates (Author) | Horatius Flaccus, Quintus (Author) | Livius, Titus (Author) | Ovidius Naso, Publius (Author) | Plautus, Titus Maccius (Author) | Plinius Secundus <Iunior> (Author) | Plutarchus (Author) | Rinutius, Aretinus (Translator) | Sallustius Crispus, Gaius (Author) | Seneca, Lucius Annaeus (Author) | Silius Italicus, Tiberius Catius Asconius (Author) | Vergilius Maro, Publius (Author) | Vitruvius (Author) Found in: Standard description