Accession number:
PML 128886
Published:
Impressa in Vinegia : Per Francesco Marcolini ad instantia di Alessandro Vellutello, del mese di Gugno [sic] lanno MDXLIIII [1544]
Description:
[442] leaves : ill. (woodcuts) ; 21 cm (4to)
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.
Library's copy lacks leaves AA4 and AA5, and final blank leaf BI8.
Binding:
16th-century limp vellum, painted in the late-19th century with a portrait of Dante in profile and calligraphic initial "L" in red on front panel, lion of San Marco holding a book on back panel (round medallion, probably copied from a Venetian binding), and three fleur-de-lis on the spine; dated "1544" at foot of spine in 16th-century hand.
Provenance:
Francis Bayard Rives (armorial bookplate); Gordon N. Ray.
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