Commentarii in M. Valerium Martialem.

Accession number: 
PML 128174.1
Author: 
Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478.
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.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books