Accession number
PML 16104
Creator
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published
Impressa in Vinegia : Per Francesco Marcolini ad instantia di Alessandro Vellutello, del mese di Gugno [sic] lanno MDXLIIII [June 1544]
Credit line
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.
Notes
Imprint information from colophon.
"Con gratia de la illustrissima Signoria di Vinegia, che nessuno la possa imprimere, ne impressa vendere nel termino di dieci anni, sotto le pene che in quella si contengono."
The 87 woodcuts, all larger than half-page, were cut for this edition, perhaps by Marcolini (see Mambelli).
Vellutello's biographical sketch of Dante is taken from L. Bruni's Vita di Dante.
Three lines omitted (Purg. ii. 62-64) were printed by hand after the edition was completed (leaf V7).
Printed in italic fonts throughout.
Register of signatures is printed below colophon (leaf BI7).
Guide letters for initials are present.
Signatures: AA⁸ BB⁸ CC¹⁰ A-Z⁸ AB-AZ⁸ BC-BI⁸.
PML copy missing final blank leaf, BI8.
Tipped in: ALS by E.J. Delécluze concerning this copy, and discussing illustrations of Dante in three editions ([6] p., dated 20 Dec. 1847).
"Con gratia de la illustrissima Signoria di Vinegia, che nessuno la possa imprimere, ne impressa vendere nel termino di dieci anni, sotto le pene che in quella si contengono."
The 87 woodcuts, all larger than half-page, were cut for this edition, perhaps by Marcolini (see Mambelli).
Vellutello's biographical sketch of Dante is taken from L. Bruni's Vita di Dante.
Three lines omitted (Purg. ii. 62-64) were printed by hand after the edition was completed (leaf V7).
Printed in italic fonts throughout.
Register of signatures is printed below colophon (leaf BI7).
Guide letters for initials are present.
Signatures: AA⁸ BB⁸ CC¹⁰ A-Z⁸ AB-AZ⁸ BC-BI⁸.
PML copy missing final blank leaf, BI8.
Tipped in: ALS by E.J. Delécluze concerning this copy, and discussing illustrations of Dante in three editions ([6] p., dated 20 Dec. 1847).
Description
[442] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 23 cm (4to)
Inscriptions/Markings
PML copy was censored in Florence by J. Angelo Ottaviani da Popoli, with his signature dated 3 October 1669 on the t.p.; a few passages in the Inferno are struck through with brown ink (all concerning popes).
Provenance
Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from De Marinis & Co., 1909.
Binding
Red morocco, gold- and blind-tooled by Trautz-Bauzonnet.
Classification
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