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Commentarii in .M. Valerium Martialem.

Accession number
PML 20695
Creator
Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
Object title

Commentarii in .M. Valerium Martialem.

Published

Rome : Johannes Gensberg, for Johannes Aloisius Tuscanus, 22 March 1474.

Description

[316] leaves ; 28.5 x 20.5 cm (4to)

Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1917.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [2]/2r): Domitii Calderini Veronensis commentarii in .M. Valerium Martialem ad clarissimum virum Laurentium Medicen Florentinum Cosmi Medicis .F.
Colophon (leaf [32]/9v): Domitii calderini veronensis commentarii in .M. Valeriu[m] martialem. cum defensione finiunt. Impressi rome per magistrum Johannem genβberg auspicio et favore excellenti domini johannis Aloisii tuscani de mediolano advocati co[n]cistorialis. a[n]no salutis .M.cccc.lxxiiii. die vero martis .xxii. mensis martii sedente sixto .iiii. pontifice maximo.
Printed in type 1:100R.
Collation [1⁸; 2¹⁰ 3⁸ 4-32¹⁰]: 316 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [2]/1 blank.
Paper format: Royal quarto
PML copy leaf dimensions: 27.5 x 20 cm.
Binding
Modern English full brown goatskin over boards (28.5 x 20.5 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Commentarii in Martialem
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
George Dunn (1864-1912), Woolley Hall, Maidenhead, booklabel (front pastedown), notes and price code: [mu phi eta], purchased May 1905 (front endleaf 1 recto); his sale, Sotheby's, 22 Nov. 1917, lot 35, to Quaritch (with collation note, 5 Dec. 1917) for Morgan; J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased Nov. 1917 (accessioned 1919).
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Department