Calderinus, Domitius: Commentarii in Juvenalem.
Edited by Johannes Calphurnius. Corrected by Antonius Moretus. Add: Defensio adversus Brotheum [i.e. Nicolaus Perottus].
[Venice: Printer of Domitius Calderinus, 1476-77].
Fol. a-h8.6 I8 k6 (k1, k2 signed .h., .h. .ii.). [70] leaves, the first blank.
ISTC ic00035000; Goff C35; BMC VII 1148 (IB. 25044); Bod-inc C-019; GW 5886; BSB-Ink C-43.
GW tentatively assigns this edition to Rome.
| GIP number: | C6 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bg.2.32 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Note: | At foot of k6 is a blind impression of one line of type. |
| Provenance: | Antoine Benjamin Morin d’Hérouville, Danish Consul General at Naples from 1766 to 1771: lot 1625 at the Morin d’Hérouville sale, London: Leigh & Sotheby, 9 Mar. 1780. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased at the Morin d’Hérouville sale for £0.5.6 according to the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 13(3). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “X.4.14”. |
| Binding: | Italy, 17th-century parchment; manuscript spine title; outer and middle leaves of each gathering guarded with thin parchment strips; green-edged leaves; some flyleaves have a watermark of a bird perched at the top of three overlapping mountains within a circle (similar to Briquet, 'Filigranes', no. 12250). Size: 271 x 203 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 268 x 200 mm. |
| Annotations: | Frequent marginal annotations in various humanist hands in black or red ink - mainly extracting names; occasional manicules and “nota” marks; occasional underlining. |
| Decoration: | Six-line initial “S” supplied in black ink on a3r; several pages supplied with paragraph marks in red. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf a1. |
