Comedia.

Accession number:

PML 16101

Author:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Published:

Impresso in Vinegia : per Octaviano Scoto da Monza, Adi .xxiii. di Marzo .M.cccc.Lxxxiiii. [23 March 1484].

Description:

[270] leaves ; 32.5 cm. (fol.)

Credit Line:

Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1909.

Notes:

Title from incipit of Canto I (leaf b1r): CANTO PRIMO DELA PRIMA CANTICA OVERO COMEDIA DEL DIVINO POETA FIORENTINO DANTE ALEGHIERI CAPITOLO .I.
Incipit of commentary (leaf a1v): COMENTO di christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe alighieri poeta fiorentino.
Colophon (leaf K5v): Fine del comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissime. Et impresso in Vinegia per Octaviano Scoto da Monza. Adi .xxiii. di Marzo .M.cccc.Lxxxiiii.
Printed in types 5:80R and 6:106R.
Collation: a¹⁰; b-z & A-H⁸ I-K⁶: 270 leaves.
Paper format: Super-chancery folio
Woodcut major initials, minor initials with printed guide letters.
Printer's device printed in red, with blind type to either side (leaf K6r).
PML copy leaf dimensions: 31.6 x 22.3 cm.

Binding:

16th-century French brown morocco, gilt-tooled in an interlace and foliate pattern, over heavy paper boards (32.5 x 23 cm), sewn on 6 supports by the Mahieu Aesop Binder. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; gilt edges.

Variant Title:

La Commedia

Inscriptions/Markings:

Hand decoration: Gilt initials with marginal foliate decorations in Flemish/northern French style. Red and blue symmetrical line-fillers. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance:

Claude de Laubespine III (1545-1570), through inheritance to: Madeleine de Laubespine-Villeroy and Nicolas de Villeroy, inventory number: 484 (front endleaf 1 recto); unidentified shelfmarks: 48 / 24 (front pastedown); Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased from De Marinis & Co., July 1909.

Classification:

Incunable Collection

Catalog Link:

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Genres:

Morocco bindings (Binding)

Retrospective bindings (Binding)

Department:

Printed Books