Accession number
PML 17693
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Object title
La co[m]media de Dante allighieri di firenze.
Published
[Venice] : Vindelinus de Spira, mille quattrocento e settantasetti [1477].
Description
[376] leaves ; 32 x 22 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1911.
Notes
Title from incipit (leaf a2r): [R]Ubrice di Dante. Et prima inla prima parte dello inferno. In comincia laco[m]media di Dante allighieri difirenze Nellaquale tracta di pene et punimenti de vitii [et] demeriti [et] premii delle virtudi.
Colophon (leaf PP11r): Finita e lopra delinclito [et] divo / dante alleghieri fiorentin poeta / lacui anima sancta alberga lieta / nel ciel seren ove sempre il fie vivo / Dimola benvenuto mai fia privo / Deterna fama che sua mansueta / lyra opero comentando il poeta / per cui il texto a noi e i[n]tellectivo / Christofal Bernardi pisaurense detti / opera e facto indegno correctore / per quanto intese di quella i subietti / De spiera vendelin fu il stampatore / del mille quattrocento e settantasetti / correvan glianni del nostro signore. FINIS
Printed in type 5:89G.
Collation: ā ē⁸; a-i K¹⁰ l-m⁸ n-[long-s]¹⁰ t-v⁸ x-y¹⁰ aa-gg¹⁰ hh-ii⁸ KK-OO¹⁰ PP¹²: 376 leaves, leaves ā1, a1, and PP12 blank. Leaves ā1/a1 unsigned, ā2/a2 signed ā1/a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Commentary by Jacopo della Lana. Edited by Christofal Berardi.
In the text the commentary is erroneously credited to Benvenuto d'Imola (GW).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.9 cm.
Colophon (leaf PP11r): Finita e lopra delinclito [et] divo / dante alleghieri fiorentin poeta / lacui anima sancta alberga lieta / nel ciel seren ove sempre il fie vivo / Dimola benvenuto mai fia privo / Deterna fama che sua mansueta / lyra opero comentando il poeta / per cui il texto a noi e i[n]tellectivo / Christofal Bernardi pisaurense detti / opera e facto indegno correctore / per quanto intese di quella i subietti / De spiera vendelin fu il stampatore / del mille quattrocento e settantasetti / correvan glianni del nostro signore. FINIS
Printed in type 5:89G.
Collation: ā ē⁸; a-i K¹⁰ l-m⁸ n-[long-s]¹⁰ t-v⁸ x-y¹⁰ aa-gg¹⁰ hh-ii⁸ KK-OO¹⁰ PP¹²: 376 leaves, leaves ā1, a1, and PP12 blank. Leaves ā1/a1 unsigned, ā2/a2 signed ā1/a1, etc.
Paper format: Chancery folio
Commentary by Jacopo della Lana. Edited by Christofal Berardi.
In the text the commentary is erroneously credited to Benvenuto d'Imola (GW).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.5 x 21.9 cm.
Binding
18th-century gilt-tooled red morocco over heavy paper boards (32 x 22 cm), sewn on 6 supports. Paste paper pastedowns and fly leaves with plain paper fly leaves.
Variant title
Checklist title: Divina commedia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Moderate contemporary notations in Latin throughout commentary.
Provenance
Francisco Caccia, signature (leaf ā2r); Charles Spencer (1675-1722), 3rd Earl of Sunderland, shelf mark: B 3: 22 (front fly leaf verso), through inheritance to: John Winston Spencer-Churchill (1822-1883), 7th Duke of Marlborough; Bibliotheca Sunderlandia sale, Puttick & Simpson, part II, 17 April 1882, lot 3688; Henry William Poor (1844-1915), armorial book label (front pastedown) [and price code: ro/-/- (front fly leaf verso)?]; his sales, Anderson, 17 Nov. & 7 Dec. 1908, 12 Jan., 23 Feb. & 5 Apr. 1909; Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from Bernard Quaritch, June 1911.
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