Satyrae, of Juvenal Rome / Venice Incunable Incunabula FOLIO Bevilaqua Latin Greek de Juvenal - 1496

The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. I find only one example of this extremely rare printing for Pricing history worldwide selling elsewhere for $10,000+.Title: Satyrae … Author: Juvenal. Published: Venice : Simon Bevilaqua, 1496 Title and imprint from Goff. Other names Calderino, Domizio, 1447-1478. Merula, Giorgio, d. 1494. Valla, Giorgio, d. 1500. Bevilaqua, Simon, fl. 1485-1518, [printer.]
Referenced by: ISTC, ij00665000 Referenced by: HC 9712[ast.]; IDL 2833; IGI 5600; Sajó-Soltész 2003; IBE 3396; Voull(B) 4415; Coll(U) 919; Madsen 2411, 2412; Walsh 2523; Oates 2099; Sheppard 4476; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 1061; Pr 5410; BMC V 521; BSB-Ink I-692; Goff J665
Language: Latin & Greek
Wear: wear as seen in photos Binding: tight and secure vellum binding Pages: 100% complete with all 146 leaves (twice as many pages by modern pagination methods); plus indexes, prefaces, and such; Publisher: Venice : Simon Bevilaqua, 1496 Size: ~12.25in X 8.75in (31cm x 22cm) .Condition: all leafs light to moderate yellowing, 7 pages with browning all readable, the begining of the book has water staining to 26 leafs, all readable. The first page has loss and has been professionally conserved.(SEE PHOTOS) All can be seen in the pictures here. The book is solid, readable and most of the pages are bright with no other loss. All in all a Good copy. Bound in hard cover vellum probably late 19th century. The book has many rubricated initials in red. It is fully rubricated. 1 page illuminated rubricated with large initials not effected by staining. Some of the markup rubrication is light in stained areas, which is expected. Large initials unaffected. The binding is tight and in very good condition. Before you buy look at photos, I take great efforts to describe these books. Ask for additional high resolution photos if you need them. Again a complete, well bound, readable, beautifully rubricated and illuminated incunable with condition issues. Loss to (1) Page--opening and water staining.
The Satires are a collection of satirical poems by the Latin author Juvenal written in the late 1st and early 2nd centuries AD. Juvenal is credited with sixteen known poems divided among five books; all are in the Roman genre of satire, which, at its most basic in the time of the author, comprised a wide-ranging discussion of society and social mores in dactylic hexameter.[1] These five books were discrete works, and there is no reason to assume that they were published at the same time or that they are identical in theme or in approach. The poems are not individually titled, but translators have often added titles for the convenience of readers. Roman Satura was a formal literary genre rather than being simply clever, humorous critique in no particular format. Juvenal wrote in this tradition, which originated with Lucilius and included the Sermones of Horace and the Satires of Persius.[2] In a tone and manner ranging from irony to apparent rage, Juvenal criticizes the actions and beliefs of many of his contemporaries, providing insight more into value systems and questions of morality and less into the realities of Roman life. The author employs outright obscenity less frequently than Martial or Catullus, but the scenes painted in his text are no less vivid or lurid for that discretion. The author makes constant allusion to history and myth as a source of object lessons or exemplars of particular vices and virtues. Coupled with his dense and elliptical Latin, these tangential references indicate that the intended reader of the Satires was highly educated.[3] The Satires are concerned with perceived threats to the social continuity of the Roman citizens: social-climbing foreigners, unfaithfulness, and other more extreme excesses of their own class. The intended audience of the Satires constituted a subset of the Roman elite, primarily adult males of a more conservative social stance.