Title: Ex emendationibus, adque commentariis Bernardi Saraceni, Ioannis Petri Vallae Plauti comoediae XX recens singulari diligentia formulis excusae. Ad haec Index in primo statim operis uestibulo occurret, qui ea quae magis ad memoriam insigna uidentur aperiet, 1511. Illustrated Plautus
Author: Titus Maccius Plautus; Bernardo Saraceni; Giampietro Valla
Publisher: Venezia, per Lazzaro Soardi
Condition: Poor
An early 16th century 1511 edition of Plautus' Comoediae XX, being the second Saracenus-Valla edition, and the most lavishly illustrated Plautus of the Renaissance! This work is richly illustrated with roughly 300 of 316 beautiful woodcuts throughout, and there are countless woodcut initials throughout.
Leaf X, bearing the woodcut of the audience, as lacking, as well as the last seven leaves.
One vellum bound volume in folio, CCXXVII of CCXXVIII, LXXXII of LXXXIX leaves
This volume is in poor shape, the vellum binding detached, some staining throughout, and damage to the first and last handful of leaves, the last leaves being more damaged. There is some staining throughout.