1567 TERENCE TERENTII COMOEDIAE SEX antique HAND TOOLED PIGSKIN

Publius Terentius Afer. P.

TERENTII COMOEDIAE SEX ELEGANTISSIMAE.


Basil: Brylingeri, 1567

 [26], 643, [3, blank] pp.

Terence's comedies bound in original blind-stamped pigskin dated 1575

 With contribution by Erasmus as front.

Provenance:
Early ink ownership signature of Phillipus Mylius to title, also with inscriptions by other early owners.

Size 4 by 6.5"

Extensive marginalia rear blanks and with other annotations in places to text.


Lacking clasps, head of spine chipped, tail with tear, corners splitting, the whole rubbed.

Contents with light foxing and occasional minor stains, ink to title and elsewhere, a few ink stains.

Text in Latin
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Publius Terentius Afer (c.?195/185 – c.?159? BC), better known in English as Terence, was a Roman African playwright during the Roman Republic. His comedies were performed for the first time around 170–160 BC. Terentius Lucanus, a Roman senator, brought Terence to Rome as a slave, educated him and later on, impressed by his abilities, freed him. Terence abruptly died, around the age of 25, likely in Greece or on his way back to Rome, due to shipwreck or disease.  He was supposedly on his way to explore and find more plots to base his comedies on. His plays were heavily used to learn to speak and write in Latin during the Middle Ages and Renaissance Period, and in some instances were imitated by Shakespeare.

One famous quotation by Terence reads: "Homo sum, humani nihil a me alienum puto", or "I am human, and I think nothing human is alien to me."
This appeared in his play Heauton Timorumenos.

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