Comoediae

published August 29, 1493

Johann Trechsel

Publisher, French, active 1488 - 1498

Terence

Author, 195 - 159? B.C.

Jodocus Badius Ascensius

Editor, 1462 - 1535

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Artwork overview

  • Medium

    bound volume with 161 woodcut illustrations (159 woodblocks, 8 repeats, 1 woodcut titlepage showing the author in his study and 1 full-page woodcut of an antique theater [a4v])

  • Credit Line

    Gift of Marianne Gourary in memory of her husband Paul Gourary

  • Dimensions

    book: 25.4 x 18 x 6 cm (10 x 7 1/16 x 2 3/8 in.)
    page size: 24 x 16 cm (9 7/16 x 6 5/16 in.)

  • Accession

    2009.141.1


Artwork history & notes

Provenance

Prince Liechtenstein Library (H. Bohatta, Katalog der Inkunabeln, Vienna, 1910, no. 339); H.P. Kraus; purchased by Marianne Gourary, 1975; gift to NGA, 2009.

Associated Names

Bibliography

1935

  • Hind, Arthur M. An Introduction to a history of Woodcut. II. New York, 1935: 609.


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