La Commedia.

Accession number: 
PML 18151
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
Impresso in Bressa : per Boninum de Boninis di Raguxi, a di vltimo di Mazo .M.CCCC.LXXXVII [31 May 1487].
Description: 
[310] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 35.5 cm (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased by Pierpont Morgan, 1908.
Notes: 

Title from ISTC.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L5v: Fine del comento di Christophoro Landinio Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissimo. Et impresso in Bressa per Boninvm de Boninis di Ragvxi a di vltimo di Mazo .M.CCCC.LXXXVII.
Printed in Boninus de Boninis types 3:112R and 4:82R.
Signatures: &⁸; a-i⁸ K⁶ l-r⁸; aa-mm⁸ nn⁴; A⁶ B⁸ C-L⁶: 310 leaves, leaf L6 blank.
Paper format: Median folio.
68 woodcuts, with repititions.
Variant setting of sheets h1 and l4 noted by Sheppard in Bodleian copies.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 34.4 x 23.5 cm.
PML copy missing 1 leaf: L6 (blank). Variant setting/reprint of leaf f3.6 and hh2.7 in gothic type, see Giancarlo Petrella, "Dante in tipografia. Errori, omissioni e varianti nell'edizione Brescia, Bonino Bonini, 1487," La Bibliofilía 115 (2013): 167-95.

Binding: 
19th-century French blind-tooled full red goatskin, by M. Lortic; with Morgan armorial added after acquisition. Marbled paper pastedowns and endleaves, with plain paper endleaves; decorative endbands; gilt edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Contemporary marginal notations, in two hands, sporadically throughout.

Provenance: 
Unidentified Italian inscription: Ex libris Bon. de Thibeis(?), 17th century (leaf &1r); unidentified signature: S. Bel[???] (leaf L5v); Pierpont Morgan (1843-1913), purchased from Leo Olschki, 1908.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Goatskin bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books