Juvenalis, Decimus Junius: Satyrae.
Commentary by Domitius Calderinus. Add: Domitius Calderinus: Defensio adversus Brotheum [Nicolaus Perottus].
Venice: Jacobus Rubeus, 24 Apr. 1475.
4to. [1-210 3-98 10-1110]. [96] leaves (1/1 blank).
ISTC ij00642000; GW M15783; Goff J642; BMC V 214 (IB. 20076); Bod-inc J-304; CIBN J-352; BSB-Ink I-678.
| GIP number: | J37 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Be.3.25 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | 1/4r, line 3: “ATyrarum genera duo ...” as in copy 1 of Bod-inc, not “ATyraꝝ genera duo ...” as in copy 2. |
| Provenance: | Edward Harley (1689-1741), Lord Harley; from 1724 2nd Earl of Oxford: see Binding. Thomas Osborne (d. 1767), bookseller: purchased all the Harleian printed books; top corner of front flyleaf cut off - as in many other Harleian volumes - probably by Osborne to remove his earlier price (cf. J.B. Oldham, Shrewsbury School bindings, p.114); no. 4008 in Osborne’s Catalogus bibliothecae Harleianae, vol. 1 (London: 1743). Anonymous auction sale: lot 985 in A catalogue of a scarce collection of books, in English, French and Italian, being part of a well known library (London: Baker & Leigh, 29 April [1771?]). William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: purchased by Hunter at the above anonymous auction for £3.15.0 according to the annotated British Library copy of the sale catalogue - shelfmark S.C.S. 12(2). University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate and book label on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Z.7.17”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century gold-tooled red goatskin; bound for Lord Harley by Christopher Chapman. On both covers triple fillets form two concentric frames: within the outer frame is a floral roll (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 13), and within the inner frame is an ornamental roll (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 14, Chapman roll 1); both covers have a lozenge-shaped centre-piece, made up of several individual tools (including Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 15, Chapman nos 15a and 15b). The head and foot of the spine are decorated with Chapman roll 2 (Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 14), and the tools used in the spine compartments include Nixon, ‘Harleian bindings’, pl. 15, Chapman nos 1a, 1b, and 9; the turn-ins are decorated with Chapman roll 2; marbled endpapers; rear flyleaves have a Pro Patria watermark. Size: 284 x 202 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 276 x 195 mm. |
| Annotations: | Interlinear annotations and corrections in a 16th-century hand in the text (not the commentary) in quires 1-3; traces of early manuscript signatures; manicules on 11/10r (f. 96r); motto taken from Ovid “passibus ambiguis fortuna” on 11/10v (f. 96v) together with concentric circles drawn in ink using a compass and an outline drawing of a head(?). |
| Decoration: | Seven-line initial “S” on 1/4r supplied in blue; four-line initial “S” on 1/4v supplied in gold and embellished with white-vine decoration defined in crimson and green on a blue background. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaf 1/1. |
