Merula, Georgius: Enarrationes Satyrarum Juvenalis. Adversus Domitii Calderini commentarios in Martialem. Annotationes in orationem Ciceronis pro Q. Ligario.
Treviso: Bartholomaeus Confalonerius, [not before May] 1478.
Fol. A4 a-h8 I8 k-o8 p6. [122] leaves (A1, p6 blank). A2 signed “Ai”.
ISTC im00502000; GW M22913; Goff M502; BMC VI 893 (IB. 28402); Bod-inc M-201; CIBN M-306; BSB-Ink M-339.
| GIP number: | M30 |
| Shelf-mark: | Sp Coll Hunterian Bf.3.10 (see main library entry for this item) |
| Variant: | p5r, list of contents, line 2: “... ferrero ...” not as in some copies “... feretro ...” - see BMC. |
| Bound with: | The second of two incunabula bound together. Bound with: Leonicenus, Omnibonus. In Lucanum commentum. Venice: [Filippo di Pietro], 21 July 1475 (L21/2). |
| Provenance: | Byrchyns (16th/17th century): two heavily deleted inscriptions ‘Liber [...] Byrchyns(?)’ on a1r of first item in volume. Morne (16th/17th century): ‘Mr Morne’ on a1r of first item in volume. M. B. (17th century): on p5v is a pen-and-ink device in the shape of a trefoil on a plinth incorporating the letters ‘M’ and ‘B’ and the motto ‘veritas odit moras’ (Seneca). Leonard Hotchkis (d. 1754), Headmaster of Shrewsbury School: armorial bookplate (Franks 15434) on a1r of first item in volume. William Hunter (1718-1783), physician and anatomist: source unknown. University of Glasgow: Hunterian bequest 1807; Hunterian Museum bookplate on front pastedown, with former shelfmark “Av.3.1”. |
| Binding: | England, 18th-century calf; covers decorated with a double gold-fillet border; gold-tooled red leather title label on spine; sprinkled red-edged leaves; front and rear flyleaves have watermark letters “G R” surrounded on three sides by foliage and surmounted by a crown, all within a circle. Size: 302 x 215 mm. |
| Leaf size: | 291 x 202 mm. |
| Annotations: | Marginal annotations in Latin in 16th-century hands in black ink (quires A and a) and in red ink (quire f) - the same hands appear in the first work in the volume; early annotation in Welsh on a6r; some underlining of text and manicules; first ten Enarrationes numbered ‘1-10’ in upper margin of rectos; title ‘In Iuvenalem poetam’ on A2r. |
| Decoration: | None. |
| Imperfections: | Wanting the blank leaves A1 and p6. |
