Accession number
PML 46531
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published
Venice : Luc-Antonio Giunta, January 23, 1529.
Credit line
Gift; Sinclair Hamilton; 1954.
Notes
With an engraved portrait of Dante printed on the verso of the t.p.
Colophon: Stampato in Venetia per Iacob del Burgofra[n]co, Pauese. Ad insta[n]tia del nobile messere Lucantono giu[n]ta Fiore[n]tino. Nellanno del nostro signor. M.D.XXIX. A di. XXIII. di Genaro.
Title in red and black within ornamental border.
[12], CCXCV, [1] ff. Numerous woodcuts.
Some marginal annotations.
Last leaf with suppositious Credo, Pater Nostero and Ave Maria of Dante.
Large woodcuts at beginning of each cantica, vignettes elsewhere, from earlier appearance in Venetian edition printed in 1491 by Bernardino Benali and Matthio da Parma.
Colophon: Stampato in Venetia per Iacob del Burgofra[n]co, Pauese. Ad insta[n]tia del nobile messere Lucantono giu[n]ta Fiore[n]tino. Nellanno del nostro signor. M.D.XXIX. A di. XXIII. di Genaro.
Title in red and black within ornamental border.
[12], CCXCV, [1] ff. Numerous woodcuts.
Some marginal annotations.
Last leaf with suppositious Credo, Pater Nostero and Ave Maria of Dante.
Large woodcuts at beginning of each cantica, vignettes elsewhere, from earlier appearance in Venetian edition printed in 1491 by Bernardino Benali and Matthio da Parma.
Description
[12], 295, [1] leaf ; 32 cm
Provenance
Bookplates of George Woodward Wickersham and Sinclair Hamilton; bound by Mrs. Sinclair Hamilton.
Binding
Modern tan French levant binding, blind-stamped, and with Dante's portrait on frontcover; signed by Christine Hamilton. In a slip case.
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