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Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis satyra prima.

Accession number
PML 19581
Creator
Juvenal.
Object title

Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis satyra prima.

Published

[Venice] : [Printer of Duns Scotus, 'Quaestiones'], [about 1472]

Description

[72] leaves ; 29.5 x 18.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1912.
Notes
Assigned by Proctor to Albertus de Stendal at Padua. Copinger and BMC record a variant.
Checklist has pub. date: "[1475]."
Collation: a-g⁸ h⁴; a-b⁶: 72 leaves, leaves a1 and ²b6 blank.
Edited by Marcus Antonius Sabellicus.
Explicit (leaf h4r): EXPLICIT. JUVENALIS. AQUINATIS. FELICITER. EMENDATUM. PER. M.M. A..S..M.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 18 cm
Printed in type 1:110R.
Second incipit (leaf ²a1r): Auli Flacci Persii satyra prima.
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): Junii Juvenalis Aquinatis Satyra Prima.
Binding
18th-century English gilt-tooled red morocco over paper boards (29.5 x 18.5 cm), sewn on 5 supports; rebacked. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves.
Variant title
Satyrae
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Painted major initials, red minor initials. Annotations: No notations in text.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1675-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B 4: 71 (front fly leaf verso); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, part III, Puttick & Simpson, 17 July 1882, lot 7031, to Quaritch: Sunderland Library Blenheim Palace bookplate, purchased July 1882 (front pastedown); Giuseppe Martini, unidentified catalogue, no. 85 for $70; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Martini, 1912.
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Century
Department