Le terze rime / di Dante.

Accession number: 
PML 199243
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
[Lyons, France] : [Balthazard de Gabiano], [circa 1503]
Description: 
244 unnumbered leaves (488 pages) ; 16 cm. (8vo)
Credit: 
Purchased on the T. Kimball Brooker Foundation Book Purchase Fund in honor of the Morgan's Centennial.
Notes: 

On title page verso : Lo'nferno e'l Purgatorio e'l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri.
A counterfeit of the 1502 Aldine edition printed on vellum, attributed to Balthazard de Gabiano, and/or Barthélemy Trot, a dealer who is suspected of having financed the publication.
Signatures: a-z⁸ A-F⁸ G¹² (l2 blank).
244 leaves (l2 blank). Three-line initial spaces with guide letters at the beginning of each cantica.

Binding: 
Green crushed morocco (167 x 101 mm) by Emilio Brugalla, signed and dated 1947 on lower front turn-in, covers gilt-tooled to a sixteenth-century design with interlaced borders and small arabesque stamps, spine gilt in six compartments, red moiré silk linings, vellum flyleaves, gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Two inscriptions at the end of the text stating that this copy was expurgated in accordance with the Index librorum prohibitorum issued in 1612 by the Grand Inquisitor of Spain, Bernardo de Sandoval y Rojas, by Fr. Michael Guevara, of the Hieronymite Order, 1613, and Fr. Bernardus Cortes, 1709. The three cancelled passages are Pope Anastasius's denial of the divine birth of Christ (Inferno XI, 7-9; c8v), Dante's criticism of the Donation of Constantine and its consequences (Inferno XIX, 106-117; f4v), and Folco da Marsigli's denunciation of the corruption of the Church and his prophecy that the Papacy would return from Avignon in 1305 (Paradiso IX, 136-142; A1v).

Provenance: 
Expurgated according to the Spanish Index of Prohibited Books of 1612 by Fr. Michael Guevara, of the Hieronymite Order, 1613, and Fr. Bernardus Cortes, 1709, inscriptions at end of text); Andrés Roure Gili (1911-1996), Barcelona, green morocco booklabel; Livio Ambrogio; Philobiblon, The Dante Collection (dantecollection.com). acquisition: Purchased from PrPh Books, New York, 2017; T. Kimball Brooker (b. 1939), his sale: Bibliotheca Brookeriana: A Renaissance Library. The Aldine Collection D-M, Sotheby's, New York, 18 October 2024, lot 667.
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