WITH CORRECTIONS TO THE TEXT
AND CRITICISMS TO THE COMMENTARY
JUVENAL, Decimus Junius.
Argumenta Satyrarum Iuvenalis per Antonimu [sic] Mancinellum. Cu[m] quattuor co[m]me[n]tariis … Sebastianus Ducius recensuit.
[(Colophon:) Milan, Giovanni Angelo Scinzenzeler for Giovanni da Legnano, 17 August 1501.]
Folio, ff. [12], CCVI; some Greek text to commentary, large woodcut to title showing Juvenal seated with four commentators, woodcut initials, woodcut Scinzenzeler device to colophon; occasional light thumbing to corners, a few scattered marks, but overall a very good copy; bound in sixteenth-century vellum-backed boards with plain paper sides, sewn on 2 supports with slotted spine and tawed band-covers, title lettered in ink to spine in a later hand, ‘Juuenalis’ lettered in ink to bottom edge of textblock; endcaps very skilfully repaired, front free endpaper supplied at a later date, some stains to covers; modern bookplate ‘M.B.’ to front pastedown; annotations to c. 225 pp. in brown ink in a sixteenth-century hand (occasionally trimmed), underlining.
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Argumenta Satyrarum Iuvenalis per Antonimu [sic] Mancinellum. Cu[m] quattuor co[m]me[n]tariis … Sebastianus Ducius recensuit.
Rare edition of Juvenal’s Satires with commentary by the Italian humanists Antonio Mancinelli, Domizio Calderini, Giorgio Merula, and Giorgio Valla, edited by the Greek scholar Sebastianus Ducius, with extensive early annotations and corrections to both the text and commentary.
The title-page carries a handsome woodcut showing Juvenal seated in the centre with two commentators to his right and two to his left, seated at desks and busily writing into open books.
The annotations in this copy, principally in one neat sixteenth-century hand, provide extensive explanatory notes to Satires 1, 3, 5, 7, 8, and 10–13. Our annotator is keen to capture the sense of Juvenal’s text, frequently beginning his comments with phrases such as ‘hic est sensus’. On one occasion he disagrees with the printed commentators, writing ‘non est autem talis sensus qualem dicunt isti interpretes’, while on another he thinks they could do better: ‘ita hunc locum exponi melius est’. He also corrects the text in several places, amending ‘albiolos’ to ‘alveolos’ in Satire 7.74, for example. He occasionally refers to other writers, such as Pliny. A list of passages of interest in a second sixteenth-century hand appears on the final leaf.
OCLC records only 1 copy in the US (Tulane University) and 2 in the UK (British Library (imperfect), Trinity College Oxford).
EDIT 16 CNCE 31212; USTC 762250; Sander 3730.
