Calderinus, Commentarii in Juvenalem, Rome, 1474, modern half vellum over wooden boards

Domitius Calderinus

Commentarii in Juvenalem [edited by Johannes Calphurnius, corrected by Antonius Moretus]. Defensio adversus Brotheum. [Venice: Printer of Domitius Calderinus, 1476-1477]

Chancery folio (287 x 202mm.), 70 leaves, a-h^8.6 I⁸ [2]h⁶, 42 lines, roman type, traces of manuscript quiring, initial on a3 in gold with white vine-stem decoration on a red, blue and green ground with marginal extension, smaller initials in blue or red, a few early annotations, modern half vellum over wooden boards, vellum pastedowns, a2 slightly soiled, occasional slight staining (mostly in quires a, b, h and I)

Calderini's commentary on Juvenal, first printed in 1475, details the errors made by Niccolò Perotti (the Brotheus of the title) in his edition of Pliny, in response to Perotti's criticism of Calderini's commentary on Martial. He also listed the errors in the Paradoxa in Iuvenalem of Angelo Sabino, a friend of Perotti's.

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