Domitii Calderini Veronensis Secretarii Apostolici Commentarii In Satyras Juvenalis Ad clarissimu Virum Iulianu Medicen Petri Cosmi Filium Florentium. Vicenza, Enrico Ca'Zeno, 1480, folio.
The Satires of Juvenal with Commentary by Domitius Calderinus of Verona, Apostolic Secretary, addressed to the most illustrious man Giuliano de’ Medici, son of Piero di Cosimo of Florence. Vicenza: Enrico Ca’Zeno, 1480, folio.
THE FIRST BOOK PRINTED BY ENRICO CA'ZENO, THE 1480 EDITION OF JUVENAL'S SATIRES, BOUND IN AN EARLY ANTIPHONAL LEAF.
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The printer, Enrico Ca' Zeno, worked as a printer and book dealer in Vicenza . He is first documented there on March 9, 1480, when he purchased 100 copies of Cicero 's De Oratore, and his first printed book was this 1480 edition of Juvenal which he only ever printed once. 22 prints printed or published by him are known between 1480 and 1499, and a further 8 from the years 1506 to 1509. Between 1507 and 1509, he ran the printing shop jointly with his son Giovanni Maria, who died before April 3, 1510. Enrico himself is documented as being there in the years 1523 and 1528.
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Size: 187 x 260 mm (approx.)
Condition:
[a⁴–⁷, ⁹–¹⁰, b¹⁰, c–f⁶, g⁸, h⁶, i–k⁸, l⁶, m–l⁸]
Bound in a circa 14th century vellum antiphonal leaf. The binding appears to be contemporary to the incunable period rather than the later anachronistic use of an old leaf. Some loss, remnants of original ties extant. Some discolouration, rubbed. Binding itself secure with boards securely attached, a little separation at the spine / in the gutters.
90 leaves (of 96), lacking a1-3, 8, and the final two leaves (l9-10); a1 would be a blank. Spaces for initials with guide letters, opening initial S has been contemporaneously rubricated. Worming to inner margin, some dampstaining throughout. Old pencil notes to pastedowns. Some early marginalia including leaf numbering in the upper right. Toned, sporadic staining, but generally reasonably clean throughout the text.
[ISTC ij00644000690; Goff J644; HC *9690].
