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‎Les Comédies d’Aristophane imprimées en 1544 reliées à l’époque pour le grand bibliophile Marcus Fugger (1529-1597). In-8 de (8) ff. et 286 ff. Veau fauve, triple filet à froid encadrant les plats, fer doré d'un aigle bicéphale au centre, fleurons d'angle, dos à nerfs, pièce de titre manuscrite sur vélin, nom de l'auteur à l'encre brune sur la gouttière. Reliure parisienne de l'époque. 177 x 117 mm. Aristophane, Comoediae undecim. Francfort, Peter Brubach, 1544. Édition fort rare et soigneusement imprimée à Francfort par Peter Brubach. Les 8 feuillets d'introduction sont imprimés en rouge et noir, le dernier feuillet porte sa marque d'imprimeur représentant une tête bicéphale. Aucun exemplaire aux États-Unis selon USTC. « Poète politique, vigoureux, comparable en cela à Dante, Aristophane est en même temps le poète par excellence de la joie de vivre, de la sensualité débordante, un Rabelais antique. Doté d’un profond sentiment religieux, il sait se moquer des dieux avec la plus grande liberté » (Alessandra Lukinovich). Aristophane est le seul des poètes de la comédie ancienne dont des pièces de théâtre complètes soient parvenues jusqu’à nous. Dès l’Antiquité, l’excellence de son style et sa finesse d’esprit étaient déjà louées par Platon. « Le sommet de la carrière d’Aristophane fut marqué par l’enthousiasme que suscitèrent ses ‘Grenouilles’ en 405. Dans cette pièce engagée et politique, Aristophane traitait brillamment de la question de la tragédie en confrontant Euripide le poète moderne, à Eschyle, le poète de la vieille et glorieuse Athènes. Dionysos consulté, devait reconnaitre la supériorité d’Eschyle ». Une des célèbres reliures parisiennes de la Renaissance réalisée pour Marcus Fugger (1529-1597). Élégant exemplaire relié à Paris pour Marcus Fugger. Issu d’une des plus riches familles européennes, Marcus Fugger, fils d’Anton Fugger, banquier attitré de Charles Quint, fut lui-même banquier de la ville d’Augsbourg et conseiller de Rodolphe II. Son goût pour les livres et les splendides reliures à décor en a fait le rival de Mahieu de Grolier et de Battista Grimaldi. Quant aux reliures de sa bibliothèques, elles sont en veau fauve glacé, d’une exécution parfaite : dos à nerfs, et sobre décor sur les plats, rehaussés de fleurons d’angles, et d’un fer central caractéristique. Une partie de sa collection passée dans la famille des princes d’Ottingen-Wallerstein, fut dispersée en vente publique à Munich dans les années 1930 (Catalogue IV, Munich, 1935, n°185). Les exemplaires arborent en guise d’ex-libris, tantôt ses initiales, tantôt, comme c’est le cas ici, sa signature autographe au contre plat. En l’espèce, il s’agit de l’ « association exceptionnelle d’un texte majeur de l’histoire littéraire d’Occident et de l’une des provenances les plus enviables de la Renaissance ». Le Thucydide de 1549 de son rival Giovanni Battista Grimaldi fut vendu 115 000 € le 3 mai 1987, il y a 34 ans (Ref. Livres Précieux, n°37) ; quant au Du Bellay de 1549 de Barbier-Mueller en reliure identique de Marcus Fugger, il est estimé près de 200 000 € et sera adjugé 300 000 € en mars 2021. Provenance : Marcus Fugger (avec son nom complet calligraphié à l'encre brune au contre plat) ; bibliothèque Detting-Wallerstein (cachet humide) ; Konstantyn Karafeodor (ex-libris).‎

‎Satira Romana imprimis Luciliana, antiquae comoediae Graecae non dissimilis; additae sunt causae illius comoediae a Romanis neglectae. Conitz, 1832. 7 p. No wrs. 24 cm (Programm Gymnasium Conitz, total 16 p.) ‎

‎Quae supersunt Comoediae, ac deperditarum fragmenta. Ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensita atque prooemio, argumentis et indice rerum instructa a. B.F. SCHMIEDER. (Bound with: Commentarius in M. Accii Plauti quae supersunt Comoediae conscriptus a B.F. SCHMIEDER. ‎

‎Göttingen, Dieterich, 1804. ‎

‎2 vols. in 1: 888;24;452 p. Calf 21 cm (Classici Romanorum Scriptorum V)(Back & borders of covers gilt; binding scuffed; paper foxed) ‎

‎M. Acci Plauti Comoediae. Accedit commentarius ex Variorum notis & observationibus. Quarum plurimae nunc primum eduntur. Ex recensione Ioh. Frederici Gronovii. ‎

‎Leiden (Lugd. Batavorum), Ex officina Hackiana, 1664. ‎

‎8vo. (XVI),1154,(52 index) p. Calf 20.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 840013841; Schweiger 2,766; Dibdin 2,312: 'Gronovius by the assistance of 6 ancient MSS. and his own sagacious conjectures, has improved the text in many places, and given some ingenious and successful explanations of difficult passages'; Moss 2,461/2; Fabricius/Ernesti 1,21; Neue Pauly, Supplement Band 2, Geschichte der antiken Texte, Darmstadt 2007, p. 477; Graesse 5,329; Ebert 17202) (Details: Gilt back with 5 raised bands. Engraved title. Commentary in 2 columns beneath the text) (Condition: Binding scuffed and scratched. Shield on the back gone. Paper of the front pastdown wrinkled. Titlepage cut out, and mounted on blank flyleaf expertly, with removal of the blank margins. Small hole in blank lower margin of the second leaf. Lower margin of the second half partly and very faintly waterstained) (Note: The 21 surviving comedies of the Roman playwright Titus Maccius Plautus, ca. 254-184 B.C., have never been out of fashion since the publication of the 'editio princeps' in 1472. Plautus' influence on world literature is huge. The comedies feature stock situations and characters from everyday life. 'Plautine comedy is inventive, exuberant, varied, full of rollicking eavesdropping scenes, lyrical meters, slapstick, and verbal fireworks.' Early editors, commentators and translators ransacked the plays for rhetorical and moral examples. Ever since the first post-classical performances at the end of the 15th century Plautus never left the stage. The Italian 'commedia erudita' and the popular improvisatory 'commedia dell'arte' developed through imitations of the Roman New Comedy. Probably best known is Carlo Goldoni's adaptation of the Menaechmi (1748) 'I duo gemelli veneziani' (The Venetian Twins). Spain saw the development of 'comedias elegíacas', Latin verse that incorporated Plautine passages into dialogue. Authors like Calderón adopted many New Comedy stage conventions to Spanish taste. In Germany the great dramatist Andreas Gryphius adapted the Miles Gloriosus. And in France Molière, the greatest comic playwright of his age, imitated Plautus in his Amphitryon and in l'Avare. English playwrights like Ben Johnson and Shakespeare reworked plays of Plautus. 'Plautine comedy provided Shakespeare with character and action throughout his career, beginning with direct imitation of the Menaechmi with the Comedy of Errors'. A Midsummer Night's Dream, The Taming of the Shrew, The Merry Wives of Windsor, The Tempest, they all adapt themes, situations and persons of Plautus. During the Golden Age of the Netherlands P.C. Hooft wrote Warenar (1617), an adaptation of Plautus' Aulularia. Plautus enjoyes also a new modern life on the screen. Rodgers and Hart created the music for the Boys from Syracuse (1938). Big Business (1988), inspired by the Menaechmi, tells the story of 2 sets of female twins (Bette Midler & Lily Tomlin) separated at birth. Pseudolus and Miles Gloriosus can be found in the hilarious musical and film A funny thing happened on the way to the Forum (1962) (Source of the quotations: The Classical Tradition, Cambr. Mass., 2010, s.v. Plautus) At school Plautus was never in fashion. The plays were full of immorality, and Plautus' language was too indecent, and too difficult for young boys. Plautus was studied however widely in the 17th century at universities throughout Europe. Schweiger lists 37 editions of the Opera of Plautus for this (17th)century, 15 were published in Germany, 13 in the Netherlands, 5 in Geneva and 4 in France. Popular among scholars and students were the socalled 'Variorum editions'. They offered the 'textus receptus' which was widely accepted, accompanied with the commentary and the annotations of specialists, taken from earlier useful, normative or renewing editions. This Plautus edition was produced by the Dutch classicist of German origin Johann Friedrich Gronov, or Gronovius, 1611-1671. He was the successor of Heinsius at the University of Leiden, and was influenced by Vossius, Grotius, Heinsius & Scriverius. 'His editions mark an epoch in the study of Livy, of Seneca, Tacitus & Gellius. (...) His interest to the textual criticism of Latin poetry was due to the discovery of the Florentine MS of the tragedies of Seneca. (...) In his riper years the acumen exhibited in his handling of prose is also exemplified in his treatment of the text of poets such as Phaedrus and Martial, Seneca and Statius'. (Sandys, History of Classical Scholarship, 2,321) With regard to his Plautus Sandys shows less enthousiasm. 'His edition of Plautus is marred by an imperfect knowledge of metre, which has been noticed by Bentley'. The work on Plautus by Gronovius is however highly valued by modern scholarship. Wolfgang de Melo, the editor of the new Loeb edition of 2011, places him among the great Plautus-scholars. He calls him 'an important editor of Plautus' (...) who particularly valued meter as the basis of emendations; his edition was published in 1664'. (Plautus, Vol. 1, Loeb Classical Library no. 60, Cambr. Mass. 2011, p. CXIV/CXV) Further proof of its importance for the history of Plautine scholarship is its listing in 'Supplement Band 2: Geschichte der antiken Texte' of the Neue Pauly. There seven important pre-1848 Plautus editions are mentioned, among which this edition of Gronovius) (Provenance: On the title the name of 'K.H.E. Schutter'. The owner once was Klaas Herman Eltjo Schutter, who wrote a dissertation 'Quibus annis comoediae Plautinae primum actae sint quaeritur', Groningen, 1952) (Collation: *8, A-4F8, 4G4 (minus blank leaf 4G4)) (Photographs on request) (Heavy book, may require extra shipping costs) ‎

‎Pu. Terentii Aphri Comoediae sex per Philippum Melan[chthonem] restitutae. Addita sunt haec argumenta eiusde[m] Phil. Mel. in totas comoedias, itemque Pauli Malle[oli] in singulas scenas, scholia praeterea tum Philip. Melan., quae quidem praenotavimus, tum Petri Marsi, in loca obscuriora, neutiquam contemnenda.‎

‎ 1528 Coloniae : Hittorp, 1528.pt IN8, reliure époque veau brun estampé,non paginé,199 pages,texte réglé,dos abimé avec manques,frais,collationné complet.‎

‎Biblogr. Nachweis: VD 16 T 392.Melanchthon, (Mélanchton) Philippus (1497-1560)- Théologien réformateur et humaniste. - Principal rédacteur des "Confession d'Augsbourg"Haemmerlin, Paul (14..-15..) Malleolus, Paulus (14..-15..) Humaniste. - Maître ès arts. - Archiprêtre Naissance: 14.., Andlau (Bas-Rhin) un seul exemplaire dans les bibliothéques publiques ?edition numerisée : http://daten.digitale-sammlungen.de/~db/0001/bsb00014980/images/BNF; Titre(s):Pu. Terentii Aphri Comoediae sex, per Philippum Melan. restitutae. Addita sunt haec : argumenta ejusdem Phil. Mel. in totas comoedias, itemque Pauli Malle. [Malleoli] in singulas scenas, scholia praeterea tum Philip. Melan. ... tum Petri Marsi in loca obscuriora, neutiquam contemnenda. Eucharius Cervicornus excudebat, anno M. D. XXVII. - ("Au v° du titre :") Paedagogis Philippus Melanchthon S. P. D. - ("Sign. a2, v° :") Johanni Gloriero ["sic" pour Grolierio],... Franciscus Asulanus sal. - ("Sign. a5, v° :") Terentii vita et de Tragoedia ac comoedia non pauca, ex Aelio Donato. - ("Sign. b5, r° :") Terentii vita, ex libro primo Petri Criniti de Poetis latinis. - ("Sign. b [6,] v° :") De Partibus personarum et actuum Andriae [ex Donato]. - ("Sign. b [7,] r° :") Argumentum Andriae [ex Donato]. - ("Sign. b [8,] v° :") Volcatii Sedigiti de Comicis latinis iambi. - ("À la fin :") Coloniae, apud Eucharium Cervicornum, impensa M. Godefridi Hittorpii, civis et bibliopolae coloniensis, anno M.CCCCC.XXVII., decimosexto calend. martias... [Publication:Coloniae, 1527 Description matérielle:In-8° , sign. a-z et A-B, titre à encadr. gr. Note(s):Édition ignorée de Lawton. - Édition donnée par Philipp Schwartzerd Mélanchton Remise de 20% pour toutes commandes supérieures à 200 €‎