Eiusdem Mureti Argumenta, & Scholia In Singulas Comoedias.
Terentius, a M. Antonio Mureto Emendatus Eiusdem Mureti Argumenta, & Scholia In Singulas Comoedias.
Paulus Manutius [Aldine Press] 1570.
8vo. [16] 108 leaves. 150mm x 100mm. Nineteenth century quarter calf over marbled paper-covered boards, spine lettered and decorated gilt. A very good copy, some wear to the head of the spine and a couple of bumps to the binding.
An attractive Aldine editon of Terence's plays, containing Andria; Eunuchus; Heautontimorumenos; Adelphi; Phormio; Hecyra. Edited by the Renaissance humanist scholar Marc-Antoine Muret.
Publius Terentius Afer, commonly known at Terence, was an African Roman playwright, generally considered to be one of the greatest Roman comic dramatists, the author of six verse comedies that were long regarded as models of pure Latin. Terence's plays form the basis of the modern comedy of manners.
PROVENANCE: Richard Dacre Archer Hind (1849-1910), Classical scholar, with his ownership inscription, "R.D. Archer Hind, Trinity College Cambridge, 1886" to front free endpaper.
Aldine Press. Catalogue of the Aldine Collection, UCLA, 824
Stock ID: 44396
