La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino

Item Information

Title:
La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino
Title (uniform):
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Editor:
Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504
Commentator:
Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504
Author of introduction, etc.:
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433-1499
Illustrator:
Botticelli, Sandro, 1444 or 1445-1510
Engraver:
Baldini, Baccio
Printer:
Laurentii, Nicolaus, active 1475-1486
Former owner:
Bradley, Jane W., 1849-1937
Former owner:
Hofer, Philip, 1898-1984
Former owner:
Goodspeed's Book Shop (Boston, Mass.)
Former owner:
Harvard University
Date:
[August 30, 1481]
Format:
Books
Genre:
Engravings
Illuminations
Royal folios
Bookplates
Edge titles
Incunabula--Italy
Incunabula
Location:
Boston Public Library
Rare Books Department
Collection (local):
Incunabula (Collection of Distinction)
Places:
Italy > Tuscany (region) > Firenze (province) > Florence
Extent:
[372] leaves : ill. ; 42 cm (fol.)
Permalink:
https://ark.digitalcommonwealth.org/ark:/50959/ng454f09k
Terms of Use:
No known copyright restrictions.
No known restrictions on use.
Publisher:
[Florence] : [Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus]
Language:
Italian
Notes:
Title from Landinus's commentary (pi2 recto): Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.
Imprint from colophon (L10 verso): Fine del Comento di Christo-phoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissimo. Et impresso in Firenze per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna a di .xxx. dagosto .M. CCCC. LXXXI.
20 copper engravings are known, attributed to Baccio Baldini from designs by Sandro Botticelli, to accompany the first 19 Cantos of the Inferno: see A.M. Hind, Early Italian engraving, vol. I, London, 1938, pp. 99-116.
Notes (ownership):
PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.20 FOLIO with bookplate/ticket of Philip Hofer on front pastedown. Formerly in the collection of Jane W. Bradley, of Providence, Rhode Island. Purchased by Philip Hofer on 30 October, 1939, from Goodspeed's in Boston. Purchased by the BPL from Harvard in January, 1943.
Notes (date):
This date is inferred.
Notes (citation):
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VI, 628
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D29
Gesamtkatalog de Wiegendrucke, 7966
Incunabula short title catalogue, id00029000
Notes (object):
Signatures: pi⁸ ²pi⁶ a¹⁰ b⁸ c-e¹⁰ f⁸ g¹⁰ h-i⁸ l¹⁰ m-n⁸ o-r¹⁰ s⁶; aa-gg¹⁰ hh¹² ll-mm¹⁰ oo⁶; A⁸ B-H¹⁰ I⁶ L¹² (A1 and A2 signed aaa1, aaa2; pi1, ²pi6, a1, aa1, L11 and L12 blank).
Super-royal folio; a3 (i.e. fol. 17) recto: 60 lines of commentary, plus headline, 273 (283) x 170 mm; types: 115R(b) (text), 91R (commentary); spaces before each canto left blank for engravings; initial spaces with printed guide letters.
COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.20 FOLIO imperfect: leaves pi1, L11, and L12 (all blanks) wanting. First two engravings present and partially tinted. All other engraving spaces left blank. On pi2, an illuminated initial with three-sided border of blue and purple flowers on green stems interspersed with gold bezants; in lower border, space for heraldic insignia within a painted wreath left blank. Five additional illuminated initials: a2, aa1, aa2, aaa1 (i.e. A1) and aaa2 (i.e. A2). Two-line initial spaces rubricated in alternating red and blue Lombards. Leaf dimensions: 423 x 285 mm.
BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.20 FOLIO bound in later(?) rigid vellum. Spine labeled in manuscript. Manuscript label on lower edge of text block. Housed in a brown cloth box with black spine lettering.
Identifier:
06_01_018620
Call #:
RARE BKS Q.401.20 FOLIO
Barcode:
39999091889525