Accession number
PML 356
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Object title
Danthe alegieri fiorentino.
Published
Venetia : per Matheo di chodecha da parma [Matteo Capcasa (di Codeca)], MCCCCLXXXXIII A di XXIX de Novembre [29 November 1493].
Description
[11], II-CCXCIX (i.e. CCC), [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (fol.)
Credit line
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes
Title from half-title page (leaf a1r).
Colophon (leaf O5r): Finita e lop[er]a dellinclyto & divo Da[n]the alieghieri poeta fiore[n]tino revista & eme[n]data dilige[n]teme[n]te p[er] el revere[n]do maestro Piero da Figino maestro i[n] theologia & excelle[n]te p[re]dicatore del ordi[n]e de minor & ha posto molte cose i[n] diversi luoghi che ha trovato ma[n]care si i[n] lo texto co[m]e nella g[lor]iosa. Impressa in Venetia per Matheo di chodecha da parma Del .MCCCCLXXXXIII. A di .XXIX. de Novembre.
Printed in Capcasa's types 3:108R, 4:84R, 6:130G, and 9:81R.
Collation: a¹⁰; a-u⁸ x⁸(-x5) y-z & A-N⁸ O⁶: 311 leaves. Leaf x5 was likely an internal blank, cut away.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
99 woodcuts and woodcut initials.
Errors in foliation: CLXV omitted and leaves CLXVII-VIII repeated; many other leaves misnumbered.
With the commentary of Cristoforo Landino. Edited by Piero da Figino.
At end, the spurious Credo, Pater Noster and Ave Maria of Dante.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21.5 cm., trimmed.
Colophon (leaf O5r): Finita e lop[er]a dellinclyto & divo Da[n]the alieghieri poeta fiore[n]tino revista & eme[n]data dilige[n]teme[n]te p[er] el revere[n]do maestro Piero da Figino maestro i[n] theologia & excelle[n]te p[re]dicatore del ordi[n]e de minor & ha posto molte cose i[n] diversi luoghi che ha trovato ma[n]care si i[n] lo texto co[m]e nella g[lor]iosa. Impressa in Venetia per Matheo di chodecha da parma Del .MCCCCLXXXXIII. A di .XXIX. de Novembre.
Printed in Capcasa's types 3:108R, 4:84R, 6:130G, and 9:81R.
Collation: a¹⁰; a-u⁸ x⁸(-x5) y-z & A-N⁸ O⁶: 311 leaves. Leaf x5 was likely an internal blank, cut away.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
99 woodcuts and woodcut initials.
Errors in foliation: CLXV omitted and leaves CLXVII-VIII repeated; many other leaves misnumbered.
With the commentary of Cristoforo Landino. Edited by Piero da Figino.
At end, the spurious Credo, Pater Noster and Ave Maria of Dante.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 29.5 x 21.5 cm., trimmed.
Binding
19th-century gilt-tooled black goatskin over paper boards (30 x 22 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Riviere & Son. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant title
La commedia
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized, where required. Annotations: Minimal contemporary marginal notations throughout, mostly washed/faded.
Provenance
Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown) and bibliographical notes: No. 244, 10/12/96 and price code: od/-/- (front fly leaf verso); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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