Accession number
PML 378
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Object title
Comincia la comedia di dante alleghieri di Firenze nella q[ua]le tracta delle pene et punicioni de uicii et demeriti et premii delle uirtu.
Published
[Foligno] : impressa sue Io maestro Iohanni Numeister opera dei alla decta impressione et meco fue Elfulginato Euangelista, Nel mille quatro cento septe et due nel quarto mese adi cinque et sei [11 April 1472].
Description
[252] leaves ; 30 cm. (folio)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from caption, partly in capitals (leaf [1]/2r).
Imprint from colophon (leaf [23]/9r): Nel mille quatro cento septe et due / nel quarto mese adi cinque et sei / questa opera gentile impressa sue / Io maestro Iohanni Numeister opera dei / alla decta impressione et meco fue / Elfulginato Euangelista mei :·
Printed in Neumeister and Angelini's type 1:124R.
Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-5¹⁰ 6¹² 7¹⁰; 8-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13¹⁰ 14¹² 15¹⁰; 16¹⁰ 17¹² 18-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21-23¹⁰]: 252 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [7]/10, [15]/10, [23]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Setting-up of first page of text on leaf [1]/2r known in two variants.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.8 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with "alariua" on leaf [1]/2v, as in BMC (IB.25407).
PML copy with leaf [1]/2 with repairs to gutter.
Imprint from colophon (leaf [23]/9r): Nel mille quatro cento septe et due / nel quarto mese adi cinque et sei / questa opera gentile impressa sue / Io maestro Iohanni Numeister opera dei / alla decta impressione et meco fue / Elfulginato Euangelista mei :·
Printed in Neumeister and Angelini's type 1:124R.
Signatures: [1-2¹⁰ 3¹² 4-5¹⁰ 6¹² 7¹⁰; 8-11¹⁰ 12¹² 13¹⁰ 14¹² 15¹⁰; 16¹⁰ 17¹² 18-19¹⁰ 20¹² 21-23¹⁰]: 252 leaves, leaves [1]/1, [7]/10, [15]/10, [23]/10 blank.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Setting-up of first page of text on leaf [1]/2r known in two variants.
Spaces left blank for initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.7 x 19.8 cm., trimmed.
PML copy with "alariua" on leaf [1]/2v, as in BMC (IB.25407).
PML copy with leaf [1]/2 with repairs to gutter.
Binding
19th-century French gilt-tooled blue, straight-grained morocco over heavy paper boards (30 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Bozerian le jeune for Renouard. Orange morocco doublures with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
Comincia la comedia di Dante Alighieri di Firenze
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubricated, red and blue lombards, those beginning the 3 books are blue with red penwork, but all are washed/faded. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
Antoine Augustin Renouard (1765-1853), Cat. d'un amateur, III 75, not in his 1804, 1834, or 1854 sales; Bertram Ashburnham, Earl of Ashburnham (1797-1878), purchased before 1855 (note by Belle Greene), with shelf mark: 2.H (front fly leaf verso); his sale, Sotheby's, 25 June 1897, lot 1261; Bernard Quaritch, Monuments of Typography (1897), no. 321 for £240 (description glued to front fly leaf recto); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), purchased from Quaritch 2 Feb. 1900 (note by Belle Greene), armorial bookplate (front doublure) and price code: wds/wm/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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