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Commentarii in M. Valerium Martialem.

Accession number
PML 128174.1
Creator
Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
Object title

Commentarii in M. Valerium Martialem.

Published

Venice : Jacobus Rubeus, 13 Sept. 1474.

Description

[172] leaves ; 31 x 21.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit line
Gift of Fred S. Bentley, Sr., in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th aniversary of the Association of Fellows, 1999.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf [1]/2v): MONITII CALDERINI VERONENSIS COMMENTARII IN .M. VALERIUM MARTIALEM AD CLARISSIMUM VIRUM LAURENTIUM MEDICEM FLORENTINUM PETRI MEDICIS .F.
Colophon (leaf [22]/7v): Domitii Calderini Veronensis Commentariorum i[n] M. Valerium Martialem cum defensione finis: Impressi enim sunt Venetiis arte & ingenio dilige[n]tissimi impressoris Jacobi de Rubeis natione Gallici. Anno salutis M. cccc.lxxiiii: Idibus Septembris: Nicolao Marcello Duce Venetiaru[m].
Printed in type 2:80R, with one Greek type.
Collation: [1-9⁸ 10-11⁶ 12-22⁸]: 172 leaves, leaves [1]/1 and [22]/8 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Often found with the Commentarii in Ovidii Ibin (Goff C-41).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.2 x 20.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: [1]/1 (blank).
Binding
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (31 x 21.5 cm.), sewn on 6 supports. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Variant title
Commentarii in Martialem
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Extensive contemporary marginal notations in first-third, washed/faded, notation on leaf a5r signed MN.
Provenance
Charles Spencer (1675-1722), third Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B 2: 44 (front fly leaf verso); John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough, shelf mark: 57 C. 10 (front fly leaf verso); Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, part III, Puttick & Simpson, 17 July 1882, lot 8149; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Fred S. Bentley, Sr., in honor of the 75th anniversary of the Morgan Library and the 50th aniversary of the Association of Fellows, 1999.
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