Comedia del diuino poeta Danthe Alighieri : con la dotta & leggiadra spositione di Christophoro Landino, con somma diligentia & accuratissimo studio nuouamente corretta, & emendata, da infiniti errori purgata, ac etiandio di vtilissime postille ornata : aggiuntaui di nuouo vna copiosissima tauola nella quale si contengono le storie, fauole, sententie, & le cose memorabili & degne di annotatione che in tutta l'opera si ritrouano.

Accession number:

PML 59345

Author:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Published:

In Vinegia : Ad instantia di M. Gioanni Giolitto da Trino : Per M. Bernardino Stagnino, 1536.

Credit:

Purchased as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1969.

Description:

[28], 440 leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 22 cm

Notes:

"Per M. Bernardino Stagnino" from colophon.
Portrait of Dante in medallion on t.p.; large woodcut on leaf [1st]A1v; a small woodcut at the beginning of each canto.
HIGH RESERVE; for bindings study only.

Binding:

16th-century Italian (Roman?) gilt-tooled brown calf, bound for Jacopo Ruiz with his arms, by the "Arabesque binder"; in grey cloth box.

Provenance:

Jacopo Ruiz (armorial binding); Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased from Georges Heilbrun as the gift of Julia P. Wightman, 1969.

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Classification:

Binding Collection

Genres:

Calf bindings (Binding)

Armorial bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books