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Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321
Title(s):
Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino.
Additional Title(s):

Caption on leaf [superscript pi]a1v: Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino

Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino

Divina commedia
Published/Created:
Impressa in Venetia : Per Pieto de Zuanne di Quarengii da Palazago Bergamasco., Del M.CCCC.LXXXXVII. adi .XI. Octubrio. [11 Oct. 1497].
Physical Description:
[12], III-CCXCVII, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 32 cm (Folio)
Holdings:
Unable to reach service. Holdings currently not available
Copyright Status:
Copyright Not Evaluated
Classification:
Books
Notes:
BEIN: For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Imprint from colophon.
Commentary by Christoforo Landino; edited by Piero Mazzanti.
"Reprinted from M. Capcasa's 1493 edition ..., including cuts and borders."--See BM 15th cent. The initial full-page woodcut with the God figure not in top of frame in this impression.
Chancery folio, with paper measuring 31 x 20.9 cm.
Some illustrations and first leaf of text within woodcut borders; woodcut initials, also initial spaces with guide letters, unfilled; printed notes on margins; text enclosed by commentary.
In quire a at least sheets 3.6 and 4.5 are found in two settings. In the first setting the headlines measure 3 mm; in the second, 4 mm.
Numerous foliation errors.
Signatures: [superscript pi]a¹⁰ a-z⁸ &⁸ A-I⁸ k⁸ L-M¹⁰ N⁶
Includes Marsilio Ficino's eulogy of Dante, in Latin and Italian, on leaf [a9].
The spurious Credo, Pater Noster and Ave Maria of Dante printed after the colophon.
Verso of final leaf blank.
Mead, H.R. Incunabula in the Huntington Library, 3239
Incunabula short title catalogue, id00035000
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D35
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5953* = 5945
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7972
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 513
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0825: Imperfect: title leaf and leaf [188] (Purgatorio) only. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
Subject Terms:
Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321. Divina commedia.
Epic poetry, Italian -- Early works to 1800.
Hugo, Harold -- Bookplate.
Incunabula in Yale Library.
Italian poetry -- To 1400.
Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
Form/Genre:
Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
Fragments (object portions)
Contributors:
Ficino, Marsilio, 1433–1499.
Landino, Cristoforo, 1424–1504, commentator.
Mazzanti, Piero, editor
Quarengi, Pietro, active 1492–1514, printer.
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