Convivio / di Dante Alighieri fiorentino.

Accession number: 
PML 407
Author: 
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Published: 
Impresso in Firenze : Per ser Francesco bonaccorsi, nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi .xx. di septembre [20 September 1490]
Description: 
[90] leaves ; 21 cm (4to)
Credit Line: 
Purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
Notes: 

Caption title, leaf a1r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf l10r: Impresso in Firenze per ser Francesco bonaccorsi nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi .xx. di septembre.
Printed in Bonaccorsi's types 1:110R and 2:78R.
Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰: 90 leaves.
Paper format: Chancery quarto.
Capital spaces, with guide letters.
Sheppard notes an error of imposition in quire f.
PML copy with quire f printed in correct imposition.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 20.4 x 13.2 cm.

Binding: 
20th-century quarter brown goatskin, with paper sides, over paper boards (21 x 14 cm), sewn on 3 supports by Duprez-Lahey. Plain paper pastedowns and endleaves; plain endbands; red edges.
Inscriptions/Markings: 

Hand decoration: Rubrication unrealized. Annotations: Italian marginal notations, mainly keywords, sporadically throughout; enummerated list of names(?), faded, not legible under UV (leaf l10v).

Provenance: 
Unidentified cardinal's armorial stamp (leaves a1r and l10v), possibly Gaspard Du Laurens, archbishop of Arles (1567-1630); Léon Techener, Répertoire Universel de Bibliographie, tome I, no. 2471 for 100 fr.; Giovanni Marchetti (1817-1876) of Turin, armorial bookplate with motto: Constantia et Labore (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), his sale, Sotheby's, 27 Nov. 1876, lot 62; unidentified English sale catalogue description, no. 686 (rear patedown, preserved from previous binding); Richard Bennett (1849-1930), armorial bookplate (front pastedown, preserved from previous binding), entire library purchased in 1902 by: Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913), purchased with the Bennett collection, 1902.
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