Accession number
PML 20046
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Object title
Convivio / di Dante Alighieri fiorentino.
Published
Impresso in Firenze : Per ser Francesco bonaccorsi, nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi .xx. di septembre [20 September 1490]
Description
[90] leaves ; 22.5 cm (4to)
Credit line
Purchased by J.P. Morgan, Jr., 1916.
Notes
Caption title, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l10r: Impresso in Firenze per ser Francesco bonaccorsi nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi .xx. di septembre.
Printed in Bonaccorsi's types 1:110R and 2:78R.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰: 90 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Capital spaces, with guide letters.
Sheppard notes an error of imposition in quire f.
PML copy with quire f printed in correct imposition.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.4 x 13 cm.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l10r: Impresso in Firenze per ser Francesco bonaccorsi nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi .xx. di septembre.
Printed in Bonaccorsi's types 1:110R and 2:78R.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰: 90 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Capital spaces, with guide letters.
Sheppard notes an error of imposition in quire f.
PML copy with quire f printed in correct imposition.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 21.4 x 13 cm.
Binding
16th-century Italian blind- and gilt-tooled calf or goat over wooden boards (22.5 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports; perhaps repaired, inverting boards. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves (renewed?); plain endbands; gilt and gauffered edges. 4 clasps, 3 missing. Gilt-tooled on top board: Di Dante, and on rear: Convivio.
Inscriptions/Markings
Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.
Provenance
J.P. Morgan, Jr. (1867-1943), purchased from Giuseppe Martini, Jan. 1916.
Classification
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