Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino, del. MCCCCLXXXXI adi iii, Marzo [3 Mar. 1491]
- Title(s):
- Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.
- Additional Title(s):
- Divina commedia
- Published/Created:
- Impressi i[n] Venesia : P[er] Bernardino Benali & Matthio da Parma, del. MCCCCLXXXXI adi iii, Marzo [3 Mar. 1491]
- Physical Description:
- [10], CCLXXXXI, [1] leaves : illustrations (woodcuts) ; 31 cm (fol.)
- Holdings:
- Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0610Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection[Request]
- Copyright Status:
- Copyright Not Evaluated
- Full Orbis Record:
- http://hdl.handle.net/10079/bibid/3464348
- Classification:
- Books
- Notes:
- BEIN 1979 +71 Imperfect: slightly wormed, damp-stained at end; illus. preceding Purgatory and Paradise slightly mutilated. Bookplate: Schmidtchen.
BEIN 1979 +71: The colophon is in the longer redaction.
BEIN Zi +4877: Different issue with shorter colophon.
BEIN Zi +4877: Large portion of text of fol. 302a restored in facsimile.
BEIN Zi +4877: Bound in old leather over wooden boards, with corner and center bosses, and front, top, and bottom clasps; rebacked and relined, top and bottom clasps wanting.
BEIN Zi +4877: In manuscript on fly-leaf: "Lazarus Plombius de Cremona", followed by Italian annotations dated 1495-1505. Bookplate of Ulrico Hoepli.
BEIN Zi +4877: Bought in July, 1942.
BEIN: For fuller description see collation slip in volume.
Title from caption of Proemio, leaf pi1 recto.
Edited by Pietro da Figino. Cf. colophon.
Colophon (L7v): Impressi i[n] Venesia p[er] Bernardino Benali & Matthio da Parma & ha a[n]chora posto di fora i[n] li margini tutte le historie nota[n]de & li nomi p[ro]prii che si trouano i[n] ditta opera fornita de sta[m]par del. MCCCCLXXXXI. adi. iii. Marzo.
Signatures: pi¹⁰ a-z⁸ & ⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A⁸ B⁶ C-I⁸ K⁶ L⁸.
Capital spaces with guide letters. Commentary surrounds text; side notes.
Leaves a1r and L8v blank.
Includes (leaves L7 verso-L8 recto)--the suppositious Credo, Pater Noster and Ave Maria.
Woodcuts: illustrated with 100 woodcuts by the artist who illustrated the 1490 Malermi Bible, identified by Lilian Armstrong as the Master of the Pliny of Pico della Mirandola; there is one woodcut for each of the poem's cantos, including three full-page illustrations at the beginning of each "cantica; ornamental capitals; borders; capital spaces with guide letters. For the first two sections--Inferno and Purgatorio--the artist followed images from earlier cycles when available as models. For the Paradiso, as there were no previous woodcut illustrations, the Pico Master created an entirely new sequence of images ..." (Philobiblon catalog, "Italian Books I" (Spring 2019), no. 4)
Proctor, R. Index to the early printed books in the British Museum (supplement), 4877
Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5949
Incunabula short title catalogue, id00032000
Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7969
Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D-32
Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 373 (IB. 22339)
BAC Leaf Collection no. 0610: Imperfect: leaves CXXXVIII (s2) and CXCV ([rum]3) only, with woodcut illustrations. From a collection of fifteenth- and sixteenth-century printed leaves compiled by Frederick Werther, with his enumeration stamped in ink.
First fully illustrated Commedia, the first to contain a complete cycle of images for each "cantica" and the first edition to include Landino's commentary as revised by Pietro da Figino (recently identified as the Tuscan theologian Pietro Mazzanti da Figline). - Subject Terms:
- Dante Alighieri, 1265–1321. Divina commedia.Hoepli, Ulrico, 1847–1935 -- Bookplate.Incunabula in Yale Library.Schmidtchen -- Bookplate.Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership.
- Form/Genre:
- Incunabula.
Woodcuts.
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