Title from caption, leaf [1]/2r.
Imprint from colophon, leaf L10v: Fine del comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissimo. Et impresso in Firenze per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna a di .XXX. dagosto .M.CCCC.LXXXI.
Printed in Laurentii's types 4:114R and 5:91R.
In 4 parts: I, Proemio e vita) [1⁸ 2⁶]: 14 leaves, leaves [1]/2-4 signed i, ii, and iii, leaves [1]/1 and[2]/6 blank; II, Inferno) a¹⁰ b⁸ c-e¹⁰ f⁸ g¹⁰ h-i⁸ l¹⁰ m-n⁸ o-r¹⁰ s⁶: 154 leaves, leaf a1 blank; III, Purgatorio) aa-gg¹⁰ hh¹²; ll-mm¹⁰ oo⁶: 108 leaves, leaf aa1 blank, leaves aa4 and aa5 signed aaiii and aaiiii; IV, Paradiso) aaa/A⁸ B-H¹⁰ I⁶ L¹²: 96 leaves, leaves L11-12 blank, in first quire leaves 1-2 signed aaai-ii and leaf 3 signed Aiii.
Paper format: Royal folio.
19 copper engravings are known, by Bacci Baldini after designs by Sandro Botticelli, to accompany the first 19 Cantos of the Inferno (A.M. Hind, Early Italian engraving I (London, 1938) pp. 99-116). For extensive notes on engravings in the US copies see Goff. For the Paris BN vellum copy without engravings, and other variants, see Pellechet.
For notes on variants and characteristics of individual copies, see C. Landino, Comento sopra la Comedia, a cura di Paolo Procaccioli (Roma, 2001), t.1 pp.127-73.
Commentary by Christophorus Landinus.
PML copy is 3 leaves only: PML 127966.1 is a reset variant of leaf i3.6 set entirely in type 6:111R, without headlines or initial spaces; PML 127966.2 is Landino's prologue to Paradiso, leaf aaa1.
PML copy leaf dimensions: 39 x 25 cm.
Commedia
Hand decoration: Rubrication not required on leaf i3.6; rubrication unrealized on leaf aaa1. Annotations: No marginal notations in text.