Accession number
PML 35751
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published
Londra : T.e G. Boone, 1858.
Credit line
Gift of Henrietta Ricketts, 1939.
Notes
Reprint of the editions: Foligno 1472, Jesi 1472, Mantua 1472 and Naples 1474. The four texts are printed in the four quarters of each page.
Facsimiles: 1. Foligno. Two of the first page, from the copies in the British museum (formerly in the possession of Thos. Grenville and King George III) 2. Jesi. Inf. I. 1-6 and colophon. 3. Mantua. First page and the end of the last, including colophon. 4. Naples. Last page including colophon.
Facsimile of a portrait drawing of Dante by Raphael in the Albertine library, Vienna, tipped in, opposite t.p.
Introduction by Anthony Panizzi.
Facsimiles: 1. Foligno. Two of the first page, from the copies in the British museum (formerly in the possession of Thos. Grenville and King George III) 2. Jesi. Inf. I. 1-6 and colophon. 3. Mantua. First page and the end of the last, including colophon. 4. Naples. Last page including colophon.
Facsimile of a portrait drawing of Dante by Raphael in the Albertine library, Vienna, tipped in, opposite t.p.
Introduction by Anthony Panizzi.
Description
xxvi p., 1 l., 748 p. : 5 facsim. ; 40 cm.
Provenance
Charles Musgrave, autograph presentation from Lord Vernon; Richard C. Jackson (1851-1923), inscription, 3 March 1896 and bookplate; Henrietta Ricketts, bookplate; Pierpont Morgan Library, gift of Henrietta Ricketts, Oct. 1939.
Binding
Gilt-tooled vellum by W.J. Smith of Brighton.
Classification
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