Dantis Aligerii poetae florentini inferni capitvlvm primvm incipit.

Accession number: 
PML 26247
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
Mantuae impresserunt : Magister georgius & magister paulus teutonici ... ad iuuante Columbino ueronensi, MCCCCLxxII [1472].
Description: 
[92] leaves ; 286 mm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased in 1929.
Notes: 

Title from caption at incipit on leaf [1]/2 recto.
Imprints from colophon on leaf [11]/6 verso, which reads in full: Magister georgius & magister paulus teutonici hoc opus mantuae impresserunt ad iuuante Columbino ueronensi.
Printed in Georg de Augusta and Paulus de Butzbach's type 1:106R.
Signatures: [1¹² 2-6⁸ 7¹⁰ 8-10⁸ 11⁶]: 92 leaves, leaf [1]/12 blank and excised in most copies.
Paper format: Median folio.
2 columns, 41 lines. Spaces left blank for initials, with printed guide letters.
It appears from the document quoted by D. Fattori, "Nuove ricerche sulla tipografia veronese del Quattrocento", La Bibliofilia, 97 (1995), pp. 1-20 (3, 17), that Paulus de Butzbach's partner, traditionally called Georgius de Butzbach, was not in fact his brother but one 'magister Georgius filius quondam Gerardi de Augusta de Elemenea'.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 32.2 x 23.2 cm., trimmed.

Binding: 
Modern blind- and gilt-tooled red goatskin over paper boards (32.5 x 24 cm.), sewn on 5 supports by Trautz-Bauzonnet. Marbled paper pastedowns and fly leaves, with plain paper fly leaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Variant Title: 

Dantis Aligerii poetae florentini Inferni capitulum primum incipit

Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Illuminated Italian white vine initials (leaves [1]/2r, [4]/5r, and [8]/1r), red minor initials. Annotations: A few contemporary marginal notations sporadically throughout. Old foliation, trimmed.

Provenance: 
Unidentified inscription: "Importaz temporance 26 VII 1907" (rear fly leaf); Libreria antiquaria Hoepli, "Manoscritti, incunabuli figurati, editiones principes," 18 Feb. 1929, lot 33; Pierpont Morgan Library, purchased Feb. 1929.
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