Accession number
PML 1256
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published
Vinegia : Nelle case d'Aldo et d'Andrea di Asola suo suocero, 1515.
Notes
Leaf 82 and verso of leaf 163 blank.
Title vignette (Aldus' device).
Title & Ded. to Vittoria Colonna, 12 ff; (These leaves are bound at the end of this vol.) Text, with separate title, 244 ff, text ending on recto of 244; Table ... woodcuts, 5 pp.; + 2 ft., 1 blank & 1 with anchor.
On recto of leaf preceding text (above Aldus' device) : Dante. On verso : Lo 'nferno e 'l Pvrgatorio e 'l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri.
Morgan copy with title page and dedication bound at end.
Title vignette (Aldus' device).
Title & Ded. to Vittoria Colonna, 12 ff; (These leaves are bound at the end of this vol.) Text, with separate title, 244 ff, text ending on recto of 244; Table ... woodcuts, 5 pp.; + 2 ft., 1 blank & 1 with anchor.
On recto of leaf preceding text (above Aldus' device) : Dante. On verso : Lo 'nferno e 'l Pvrgatorio e 'l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri.
Morgan copy with title page and dedication bound at end.
Description
244 numb. leaves, 4 leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 17 cm (8vo)
Provenance
Richard Heber (1773-1833), purchase inscription from Huston sale, 1832, £1.9.0 (front endleaf 1 recto), Bibliotheca Heberiana sale: Evans, part VI, 23 March 1835, lot 914; Archibald Acheson, Earl of Gosford (1806-1864), purchased in 1836 from Thorpe for £3.15.6, armorial booklabel and shelfmark: D3 (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1878 by: James Toovey (1814-1893), through inheritance to his son: Charles J. Toovey (1848-1925), Burnham Abbey booklabel (front pastedown), entire library purchased in 1899 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Toovey collection, 1899.
Binding
16th-century polished calf, gilt-tooled with central cartouche inscribed: DANTE (front) and with a bird standing on a flower (back); repaired by Sanford and Clarke.
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