Therence en fra[n]cois.

Accession number: 
PML 547
Author: 
Terence.
Published: 
Imprime a Paris : pour Anthoine Verard, [between Oct. 1499 and July 1503]
Description: 
[1], ii-CCClxxxv, [1] : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Xylographic title from half-title page, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf BB7r: Icy fine Therence en francoys Imprime a paris pour anthoine verard marcha[n]t libraire demourant a paris en la rue sainct Jaques pres petit pont. A lenseigne saint Jehan levangeliste. Ou au palais au premier pillier deva[n]t la chappelle ou lon chante la messe de messeigneurs les presidens.
Vérard's device, leaf BB7v.
Printed in Vérard's types 4:89G and 12:104G.
Dated between 1499 and 1503 in CIBN T-86, about 1500 by Goff.
Signatures: a-z [et] A-X AA-BB⁸: 376 leaves, leaf BB8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Woodcuts.
The prose translation has been sometimes attributed to Guillaume Rippe, the verse translation to Gilles Cybille (cf. H.W. Lawton, Térence en France au XVIe siècle..., Paris, 1926, p. 390-425) (CIBN).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 30 x 21.7 cm.
PML copy missing 2 leaves: b1 and B2, replaced in facsimile; leaves a5 and B7 remargined at bottom edge.

Binding: 
19th-century French gilt-tooled maroon morocco over wooden boards (31 x 23 cm), sewn on 5 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Therence en françois

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication not required. Armorial unrealized (border of leaf a2r) Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Claudius Balla, signature, 16th century (leaf a2r); John Hayford Thorold (1773-1831), monogram booklabel and Syston Park armorial bookplate (front pastedown), Syston Park Library sale, Sotheby's, 12 Dec. 1884, lot 1934; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (rear pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 282b, 23/2/1900 and price code: lo/-/- (front endleaf 1 verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Morocco bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books