Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Comento di Christophforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino, a di ultimo di Mazo .M. CCCC. LXXXVII. [31 May 1487]
- Title(s):
- Comento di Christophforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino.
- Additional Title(s):
Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino
Divina commedia- Published/Created:
- Et impresso in Bressa : Per Boninum de Boninis di Raguxi, a di ultimo di Mazo .M. CCCC. LXXXVII. [31 May 1487].
- Physical Description:
- [620] pages : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 35 cm. (Folio)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0464Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/1305523
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- View a selection of digital images in the Beinecke Library's Digital Images Online database
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN Zi +6973: For fuller description see collation leaf in volume. Manuscript note on fly-leaf: "E. Burne-Jones. MDCCC-LXXXIV. London." With Sir Edward Burne-Jones' book-plate, and another book-plate, unidentified (armorial, motto: "Amantibvs ivstitiam pietatem fidem"). Red straight grain morocco binding, gilt; bound by Bozerian, according to a penciled note on fly-leaf. Fol. 310, blank, wanting; several ff. are blank on one side.
BEIN Film Marston MS 87: Negative microfilm.
Title from leaf & 1v.
Imprint from colophon, which reads in full: Fine del Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissimo. Et impresso in Bressa per Boninum de Boninis di Raguxi a di ultimo di mazo .M. CCCC. LXXXVII.
Text interspersed with commentary.
Median folio, with paper measuring approximately 34.4 x 22.8 cm. Capital spaces with guide letters.
Sixty-eight woodcut illustrations with decorative frames, one for each canto of the Inferno and Purgatorio and the first canto of the Paradiso, all full-page but the illustration - with no border in some copies - for Canto XIII on leaf h8 recto.
Variant setting of sheets h1 and l4 noted by Sheppard in Bodleian copies. Cf. ISTC and Bod-Inc.
Printer's device on leaf L5v.
Signatures: & ⁸ a-i⁸ K⁶ l-r⁸ 2a-2m⁸ 2n⁴ A⁶ B⁸ C-L⁶ (L6 blank).
Includes Marsilius Ficinus' Ad Dantem gratulatio.
Incunabula short title catalogue, id00031000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D31
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7968
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, VII, p. 971 (IB. 31103)
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0464: Imperfect: leaves k5 and o6 only, with full-page woodcuts to cantos XVII and XXII (uncolored). From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink. - Subject Terms:
- Bozerian -- Binding.Burne-Jones, Edward, Sir -- Autograph.Burne-Jones, Edward, Sir -- Bookplate.Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321. Divina commedia.Epic poetry, Italian -- Early works to 1800.Incunabula in Yale Library.Italian poetry -- To 1400.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Binders (Binding) -- Bozerian.
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