Juvenalis and Persius, Iuuenalis. Persius, Venice, Aldo & Torresano, 1501, early sixteenth-century brown morocco (probably Venetian)

JUVENALIS, DECIMUS JUNIUS AND AULUS PERSIUS FLACCUS. Iuuenalis. Persius. Venice: Aldo Manuzio & Andrea Torresano, August 1501 [but ca. 1515]

8vo (156 x 97 mm). Italic type, 30 lines plus headline. Collation: A-G⁸ H¹⁰ a⁸ b⁴: 78 leaves (numbered 76). Woodcut Aldine device on title-page. (Title loose and lightly stained with a marginal loss at lower edge, one or two spots.)

Binding: Early sixteenth-century brown morocco (160 x 100 mm), probably Venetian, blind tooled arabesque border with leaf at inner angles, central six-lobed cartouche, traces of two pairs of ties, later manuscript title on fore-edge. (Somewhat rubbed, loss to head of spine, upper hinge defective, cords exposed, lower hinge cracked but holding.)

Provenance: Unidentified owner, inscription, "α-12," beneath Aldine device on title-page — unidentified owner, inscription, "Ex libris Jo. Baptisti Bernardii," on title-page — Sebastiano Domenico Motroni, inscription, "Sebastian Dom.co Motroni" — Pietro Leopoldo Ricasoli Firidolfi Zanchini Marsuppini (1778-1850), armorial bookplate. Acquisition: Purchased from Martin Breslauer Inc., New York, 1991. References: UCLA 140; Renouard 29/6; Edit16 37426; USTC 762326