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JUVENALIS, Decimus Junius

Iuvenalis familiare commentum cum Antonij Mancinelli uiri eruditissimi explanatione
Paris
Jodocus Badius for Joannes Meganc, Joannes Waterloose and Jodocus Hor(n)weghe
1505 (on verso title: 1506)
€1.800 - €2.400

4to: [6]-CCLIII [= 253] ff. Printed in gothic type. Text of Juvenal in larger font, commentaries in a smaller one. (missing final blank; minor soiling, esp. at beginning and end). Old sheep, gilt spine with 3 raised bands (worn, edges stained). Very good copy

This is a unique example of an ed. commissioned from Badius (a native of Ghent!) by 3 Flemish booksellers active in Ghent. Ref. BP16 100581. - Renouard II:538:3. - Adams J-752 - Machiels J 358. Prov. Contemp. notes and names on 1st and last ff. Ernest van Aelst (mod. bookpl.) Ref. Julien Claerhout in: Biekorf, (1898), p. 64: "Met de opkomste van het drukken zijn het vooral Vlamingen die deze kunst in Europa verspreid hebben. In die tijden schitterden onze medeburgers in de eerste rangen der beschaving. [...] Onder de Parijsche drukkers en boekhandelaars van 't begin der jaren 1500 kent men Joos Horenweghe, Jan Meganc, Jan Waterloos en Jooris Biermant van Brugge, Lodewijk Blaublomme van Gent, Christiaan Wechel van Lier en Jan Loys van Thielt

Humanism Incunabula Early printing