‎TERENCE (Terentii)‎
‎Comoediae Sex‎

‎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 €‎

‎Publii Terentii Afri Comoediae Sex, ad optimorum exemplarium fidem recensitae‎

‎ Paris Le Loup & Mérigot 1753 ‎

‎Deux volumes in-12 (179 x 109 mm), demi-maroquin rouge, coins, dos à cinq nerfs orné, tête dorée, non rogné (reliure milieu XIXe siècle). Illustrations de GRAVELOT, dont le portrait de Terence en médaillon sur chaque titre, 7 figures hors texte dont une en frontispice, 37 vignettes et 28 culs-de-lampe, gravés par Delafosse, J.P. Lebas et D. Sornique. Exemplaire sur Hollande, avec les figures avant la lettre. De la collection des classiques Barbou. (Cohen 982). (quelques menus frottements, rousseurs). // Two 12o volumes (179 x 109 mm), red three-quarter morocco, spine tooled raised on five bands, top edge gilt, uncut (middle of 19th-cent. binding). Illustrations by GRAVELOT, including the vignette portrait of Terence on both title pages, 7 plates (one in frontispiece), 37 vignettes and 28 culs-de-lampe, engraved by Delafosse, J.P. Lebas and D. Sornique. Copy on Holland paper, with the engravings before lettering. From collection "classiques Barbou". (Cohen 982). (some minor rubbings, brownings). ‎

‎Classical library. - In 14 volumes.1) Decii Junii: Juvenalis et a. persii flacci satyrae. 117 p.2) Caii Sallustii: Crispi quae extant. 194 p.3) Cornelii Nepotis: Excellentum imperatorum vitae. 130 p.4) Publii Terentii: Afri comoediae sex. 258 p.5) Quintus Curtius. Vol. 1 & 2. 212 p. / 184 p.6) Quinti Horatii: Flacci opera. 226 p.7) Publii Virgilii: Maronis opea. 326 p.8) De Natura Rerum: libri sex. 206 p.9) Caii Julii Caesaris: Quae extant. Vol. 1 & 2. 230 p. / 240 p. + 2 fold. maps13) P. OvidII: Opera quae extant. Vol. 1 & 2. 136 p. / 328 p.10) P. Ovidii: Opera quae extant. Vol. 3 & 4. 198 p. / 164 p.11) Catulli Tibulli: Propertii opera. 122 p.12) M. Annaei: Lucani Cordub pharsalia sive belli civilis cum vita et testimoniis. Vol. 1 & 2. 160 p. / 236 p.14) Phaedri Aug. Liberti: Fabvlarvmaesopicarvm libri V. Cum indice verborum locupletissimo. Londini, 1750, ca. 150 p.‎

‎Londini, J. Brindley, 1744 & 1750, sm. in-8vo, engraved exlibris Bibliothèque de G.N.P. Hasselaer, Mr. S.J.Z. Wiselius org. Halfleatherbound.‎

‎P. Terentii Comoediae sex elegantissimae, cum Donati commentariis ex optimorum praesertim veterum exemplariorum collatione emendatae, atque scholiis exactissimis, a multis doctis viris illustratae, & nunc denuo a omnibus mendis purgatae. ‎

‎Basel (Basileae), Apud Nicolaum Brylingerum, 1561. ‎

‎8vo. (XXVI),643,(1 blank) p. Pigskin binding, over wooden boards and dated 1565. 17.5 cm (Ref: VD16 T 456; cf. Schweiger 2,1059; cf. Renouard, Annales de l'imprimerie des Estienne, p. 43, no. 15; cf. Dibdin 2,470 for the Stephanus ed. of 1536) (Details: Contemporary blindstamped pigskin over wooden boards, dated 1565. Back with 3 raised bands, and its 4 compartments have blindstamped floral motives. The boards decorated with a triple blind-rolled frame; the outer frame comprising human figures, alternating with acanthus leaves; the central compartment of the upper board shows the female figure of Justice, who holds a sword and a pair of scales, below her 3 lines of worn away and unreadable text; in a compartment above Justice is blindstamped 'N.O', below Justice the year of the binding '1565'. In the center of the lower board Lucretia, who plunges the dagger into her breast; beneath her 3 lines dog latin: 'Castatvlitmagnafor/ maelvcrelavdeactat/ magestvvlneclarasv'; This might be something like: 'Casta tulit magna(m) form/ ae Lucre(tia) laude(m), actat/ magest (magis est?) vulne (= vulnera?) clara su(a?)'. Brass clasps on pigskin hinges. Woodcut printer's mark on the title, depicting 3 panting lions, one holds a hourglass; they are waiting for the sands of time to trickle through the glass. Woodcut initials) (Condition: Pigskin soiled and spotted. Some wear to the extremes. Front pastdown gone. 3 ownership entries on the front flyleaf, ownership entry on the title. Edges of the first leaves thumbed. Right edge of the first 20 leaves stained. Pastdown of the lower board loose) (Note: Late in life the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536, published his edition of the plays of Roman playwright Terentius, who lived in the first half of the second century B.C. It was printed in Basel in 1532 on the presses of Froben. It immediately became the standard edition. The French scholar/printer Robert Estienne (Robertus Stephanus), 1503-1559, immediately saw the importance of the edition of Erasmus and, according to Schweiger, adopted the best part of the edition of 1532 for a new edition which he brought on the market in 1536. Stephanus added also the scholia on Terentius of the 4th century grammarian Donatus, which he had already published previously in 1529. We compared the 1536 edition of Stephanus with our Brylinger edition of 1561, and must conclude that this 1561 edition is a word for word reissue, from beginning to end (including the preliminary pages) of the Terentius edition of Robertus Stephanus. To complicate matters, the pirate edition of Brylinger of 1561 itself is a repetition of an edition which Brylinger had earlier published in 1543 (VD16 T 418). The layout and the typeface are the same. Terentius remained from antiquity through the Middle Ages, and in later centuries an example of style, and a rich source for moral sentences. Erasmus seems to have learned the whole of Terentius by heart in his youth. He admired the author for his 'latinitas' and his civilized humor. His ideal as a humanist and pedagogue was the creation of better men with the help of the classics. He held the opinion, that schoolboys should read Terentius over and over again. Thus they could master a pure Latin style, and learn at the same time good morals. In his short 'praefatio' Erasmus says: 'Non ex alio scriptore melius discitur Romani sermonis puritas, nec est alius lectu iucundior aut puerorum ingeniis accomodatior' (page *3 recto) (Provenance: 'Eastern Europe, Jewish'. The first name on the front flyleaf is a small stamp: 'Ex libris Dr. O. Hönich'. We found on the internet one Dr. O. Hönich; Dr. Osias Hönich was a Jewish paediatrician living in Czernowitz, a city which till 1918 belonged to Austria, then till 1940 to Rumania, and from WW II to the Soviet Union, and now (since 1991) to the Ukraine (Tsjernivtsi). We cite an obituary of February 22, 1933 from Der Tag, a local newspaper (in German) of Czernowitz: 'Samstag, den 18. d. M., starb im Alter von 66 Jahren der Kinderarzt Dr. Osias Hönich, einer der geachtetsten und tüchtichsten Vertreter des Aerztestandes unserer Stadt. Abgesehen von seinen hervorragenden Eigenschaften als Arzt verfügte Dr. Hönich über ein bedeutendes Wissen und viel Verständnis auf künstlerischen und wissenschaftlichen Gebieten. Das Leichenbegängnis fand gestern nachmittags, vom Trauerhaus, Borobchiecigasse 3 aus, statt. Von seinen Sohen ist der eine Advokat in Czernowitz, der jüngere Maler in Paris'. The names of his sons are Felix Hönich, and Paul Konrad Hönich (Hoenich). The last one emigrated to Israel before WWII and became a succesfull painter. A photograph of Osias Höning, his wife Friederike and 2 of his kids can be found here: (www).geni.com/people/Dr-Osias-Hoschia-H%C3%B6nich-Henich/6000000007383326410. The second name, in ink, is Polish: 'Jan. Rogawski, Kolom(gji?)', 1876'. The third name: 'Josephi ..eislai Schind'; Schind might be a Jewis name, from Galicia and Bukovina, in German Buchenland, a region in Eastern Europe, half of which now belongs to Rumania and half to the Ukraine. On the title in old ink: 'Residentiae Sambonenis Soc. Jesu', 1702. What and where this 'residentia' of the Jesuits was, is hard to say) (Collation: a-z8, A-T8 (Leaf T7 verso blank, minus blank leaf T8) (Photographs on request) ‎

‎Publii Terentii Comoediae sex, ad optimas editiones nunc demum emendatae. Accedunt notae Joh. Min-Ellii, et index absolutissimus. ‎

‎Amsterdam (Amstelaedami), Apud R. & G. Wetstenios, 1721. ‎

‎12mo. (XVI, including frontispiece),540,(42 index),(2 blank) p. Vellum. 14.5 cm (Ref: STCN ppn 30413497X; Schweiger 2,1067; Graesse 6/2,59) (Details: Five thongs laced through both joints. The frontispiece, depicts a scene from one of the plays, the return of an abandoned child. Printer's device on the title: a burin being sharpened on a whetstone, around it the motto: 'Terar dum prosim') (Condition: Terentius written in ink on both boards and on the spine. Some small and faint ink annotations (18th century)) (Note: The late antique grammarian Aelius Donatus (4th century A.D) wrote not only a commentary on the plays of the Roman playwright Publius Terentius Afer, ca. 190-159 B.C., but also a short biography, in which he tells that Terentius was born in the Roman province Africa and that he came as a slave in the houshold of the senator Terentius Lucanus. He adopted his name when he was manumitted. Terentius is the author of 'fabulae palliatae', which means 'plays in Greek cloths'. He adapted Greek plays, especially those of the Greek playwright Menander, to the taste of the Romans. Six of his comedies have survived. For later generations he became a model for elegant Latin. His style was closer to everyday conversation than Plautus', an earlier contemporary comic playwright, whose style was more extravagant. He was quoted by Cicero, Horace, Persius and the Church Fathers. Ever since antiquity Terentius lived also a long and influential life in schools as a model for Latin language and rhetoric. In the Middle Ages he was read for his moral sentences. He was imitated by the German abbess Hrotsvitha of Gandersheim (ca. 935 - ca. 973) in her 'Dramenbuch', with which she wanted to create a Christian alternative for the pagan comedies. With the coming of humanism Terentius enjoyed a renaissance in the classroom and on stage. Scholars rejected the 'barbaries' of Medieval Latin and chose the elegance of Cicero and Terentius as their model. They admired Terentius for his 'latinitas' and his civilized humour. In his 'De ratione studi'i (1511) the Dutch humanist Desiderius Erasmus, 1466-1536, encouraged the study of Terentius for his language and moral utility. 'Among Latin writers, who is more valuable as a standard of language than Terence? He is pure, concise, and closer to everyday speech and, by the very nature of his subject matter, is also congenial to youth'. (The Classical Tradition, 2010, p. 930). Erasmus' ideal as a humanist and pedagogue was the creation of better men with the help of the classics. He held the opinion, that schoolboys should read Terentius over and over again. Thus they could master a pure Latin style, and learn at the same time good morals. One of the several 'Terentius for beginners', and a popular one too, was produced by the Dutch schoolmaster Johannes Min-Ellius, ca. 1625-1670. He was educated at the Erasmianum at Rotterdam, and was until his death a Praeceptor at the same school. Minellius, or Min-ellius, produced several school editions of classical authors, such as Horace, Florus, Vergil and Ovid, with ample annotations in easy Latin. His first school text of Terentius, with his numerous notes and commentary, was first published in 1670 in his hometown Rotterdam. At the end of the 17th and in the 18th century reissues of his Tererentius' schoolbook were widely used, not only on Dutch grammar schools, but also on German, English and Danish schools. Schweiger records editions in 1680 (Rotterdam), 1691 (Hamburg), 1691 (Cambridge), 1708 (London), 1710 (Leiden), 1721 (Leiden & Amsterdam), 1726 (Leipzig), 1730 (London), 1735 (Leipzig), 1741 (Copenhagen), 1757 (London), 1758 (London), 1771 (Copenhagen), 1775 (Madrid). There must be more unrecorded editions) (Collation: pi1 (frontispiece), *8 (minus blank leaf *8); A-2A12, 2B4 (leaf 2B4 blank)) ‎