Iunii Iuuenalis Aquinatis Satyra prima.
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140)
Category
Books
Date
1475
Materials
Place of origin
Venice
Collection
Blickling Hall, Norfolk
NT 3094714
Summary
Bibliographic description
[96] leaves ; 4to. Running number: 6964. Imperfect: wanting blank leaf [a1]. Leaves [g4] and [g5] mis-bound between [h4] and [h5]. Seven-line puzzle initial "S" supplied in red and blue on leaf [a4]r; all other two- to five-line initials supplied throughout in red or blue; manuscript guide-letters; paragraph marks supplied throughout in red or blue; each page ruled in red; each gathering has early manuscript signatures (two sets of signatures on some leaves), partially cropped by binder. Infrequent manuscript marginal annotations and markings in a late fifteenth or early sixteenth-century hand(s) (e.g. leaves [d6]v, [l1]r-v). Provenance: armorial binding of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) (Charles Henri, comte de Hoym), book collector and ambassador in Paris of Augustus II, Elector of Saxony and King of Poland. Lot 2088 in Hoym library sale catalogue 'Catalogus librorum bibliothecae illustrissimi viri Caroli Henrici comitis de Hoym ...' (Paris, 1738); bought by Sir Richard Ellys for 29 livres according to his priced copy of the sale catalogue. Library of Sir Richard Ellys (1682-1742) of Nocton, Lincolnshire. Manuscript initial and inscription on front fly-leaf: "M." and "Two leaves of Satyr. 9. are put at the end of Satyr 10. They begin thus: Circuit: & fatuos &c and end, Spes superest &c" [i.e. catalogue code and collation note written by John Mitchell (ca. 1685-1751), librarian to Sir Richard Ellys]. Twentieth-century pencil note (probably written by one of the Trust's early Libraries Advisors) on verso of front free endpaper: "1475 Brunet III.628, and not as dated by the binder". Binding: French, eighteenth-century dark blue tanned goatskin over wooden boards; pastedowns (doublures) of citron goatskin tooled in gold with a dentelle border; sewn on six supports; double and single gilt fillet border with small gilt sixfoil cornerpiece stamps; gilt oval armorial centrepiece of the coat of arms of Karl Heinrich, Graf von Hoym (1694-1736) on both covers; double gilt fillet along board edges; gold-tooled spine with compartments decorated with Hoym’s insignia of the white eagle of Poland, second compartment with title 'Iuvenalis 1474'; gilt roll pattern on turn-ins; placard-style marbled free endpapers; bookblock edges marbled and gilt. Small engraved binder's ticket pasted onto leaf [a2]r: 'Relié par Padeloup le jeune place Sorbonne a Paris' [i.e. bound by Antoine-Michel Padeloup (1685-1758)].
Makers and roles
Decimus Junius Juvenalis (Juvenal) (c.55-c.140), author Domizio Calderino (1447 - 1478), commentator Jacques le Rouge (fl. 1473-1490), printer