JUVENAL(IS), DECIMUS JUNIUS.

FAMILIARE COMMENTUM. CUM ANTHONII MANCINELLI EXPLANATIONE. ARGUMENTA SATYRARUM JUVENALIS PER ANTONIUM MANCINELLUM. PARIS, JODOCUS BADIUS ASCENSIUS, FOR JOANNIS MEGANC, JOANNIS WATERLOOSE & JODOCUS HORENWEGHE (IN FLANDERS), 7 MARCH 1505 (1506).

      4to. Nineteenth-century marbled boards. (6), CCLIII lvs. (without the last blank); collatiion: #6, a-z, A-H8, I6. Fine Badius edition published in Paris of Juvenal's Satyrae. Jodocus Badius Ascensius (1461-1535) published his comments on Juvenal already in two earlier editions printed in Lyon in 1498 and 1501, but the present is the first edition published by his own house at Paris, which he started in 1503. The main text is printed in a large gothic type, with the extensive commentary by the influential Italian humanist Antonio Mancinelli from Velletri (1452-1502) in smaller gothic. The colophon is dated 7 March 1505, but the dedication letter by Badius Ascensius to Henricus Valuphinus on the verso of the title is dated 7 March 1506 ('Nonis Martiis Anno ... Millesimo quingentesimo sexto'); as the year in the colophon is given in numerals, this may be an error and then the date of publication should be 1506. The dedication is followed by a letter by Mancinelli, dated 9 June 1492 (f. (1)v-(2)r), a general note on Juvenal by Mancinelli and a 'vita' of Juvenal by Badius Ascensius on f. (2)r and another note on the Satires of Juvenal by Mancinelli on f. (2)v. The Tabula is on f. (3)r-(6)v. Good copy with contemporary annotations (sm. numbers above the words of the first Satire).- (Sm. hole in one leaf). Panzer VII, 512; Machiels J 358; Adams J 752; STC French, p. 248; Renouard, Josse Badius Ascensius, II, p. 538; cf. Machiels, De boekdrukkunst te Gent tot 1560, nr. 31; for Mancinelli: Neophilolgus, 22/1 (1937), pp. 48-55; Eva Matthews Sanford, 'Renaissance Commentaries on Juvenal, in: Transactions and Proceedings of the American Philological Association, 79 (1948), pp. 92-112..