M. Acci Plauti Comoediae XX superstites, Ex nova et accurata recensione Jani Gruteri cum commentario Frid. Taubmanni Franci. Additi sunt indices rerum et verborum locupletissimi: qui linguae Latinae et doctae antiquitatis quidam thesauri fuerint. by PLAUTUS, Titus Maccius; Friedrich TAUBMANN (1565-1613); Janus GRUTER - 1621

Wittenberg:: Zacharias Schu?rer, 1621., 1621. 4to. [25] ff., 1557 pp., [62] ff. Title vignette, extensive index; occasional early & minor ink underlining. Original full vellum. Very good copy. Plautus is one of the most celebrated comic poets of Rome. This important edition by Gruter, with Taubmann's commentaries, is highly regarded. Jan Gruter (1560-1627), a Flemish-born philologist, scholar and librarian at Heidelberg, was the last curator of the Palatine library in Heidelberg, at the time one of the greatest repositories of classical manuscripts in Europe. / "As custodian of the Palatine MSS, [Janus Gruter] had always been ready to oblige scholars who publicly acknowledged his aid. The excerpts from the MSS of Camerarius, which he sent to Taubman for his edition of Plautus (1605-12), were duly acknowledged; but he regarded with disfavour and endeavoured to discredit the Plautine labours of Philipp Pareus. . .In the third edition of Taubmann's text, Gruter attempted to reflect on the accuracy of Pareus by stating that the text of Taubmann had been bona fide collated by the librarian himself with that of the MSS." – Sandys, A History of Classical Scholarship, vol. II, p. 362. CONTENTS, being all 20 extant Varronian plays by Plautus: 1. Amphitruo; 2. Asinaria; 3. Aulularia; 4. Captivi; 5. Curculio; 6. Casina; 7. Cistellaria; 8. Epidicus; 9. Bacchides; 10. Mostellaria; 11. Menaechmi; 12. Miles; 13. Mercator; 14. Pseudolus; 15. Poenulus; 16. Persa; 17. Rudens; 18. Stichus; 19. Trinummus; 20. Truculentus.