La Comedia / di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.

Accession number: 
PML 351
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
Vinegia : Petro Cremonese dito Veronese, 18 November 1491.
Description: 
[10], 11-316 [i.e. 317], [7] leaves : illustrated (woodcuts) ; 29 cm. (fol.)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Title from Landinus's commentary (leaf a1v): Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe alighieri poeta fiorentino.
Colophon (leaf r2v): Et Fine del comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe poeta excelle[n]tissimo . E impresso in Vinegia per Petro Cremonese dito Veronese [i.e. Petrus de Plasiis, Cremonensis]: A di .xviii. di noue[m]brio .M.cccc.Lxxxxi. emendato per me maestro piero da fighino dellordine de frati minori.
Printed in types 6:109R and 7:80R.
Signatures: a¹⁰; B-Z⁸ a-q⁸ r⁶; AA⁴: 324 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery folio.
Introductions and commentary by Cristophorus Landinus. Edited by Piero da Figino.
100 woodcuts and woodcut initials.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 28.2 x 19.5 cm.
PML copy with AA bound after a.

Binding: 
18th-century English sprinkled calf over paper boards (29.5 x 20.5 cm.), sewn on 5 supports. Plain paper pastedowns and fly leaves; plain endbands; sprinkled edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.

Provenance: 
Unidentified (Marsham, Carmichael, or Lyell?) shelf mark: 1.H., crossed out then, 2.A. (glued to front pastedown, from former binding?); Sir John Marsham (1602-1685), armorial bookplate (front pastedown); Carmichael family, "The Right Hon.ble The Lord Carmichael," amorial bookplate, 18th century; Charles Lyell (1767-1849), inherited by his son: Charles Lyell (1797-1875); his sale, Feb. 1875; Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front fly leaf) and bibliographical notes: No. 271, 2/7/97 (glued to rear fly leaf); J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Classification: 
Incunable Collection
Catalog Link: 
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Genres: 
Calf bindings (Binding)
Department: 
Printed Books