Rare Books and ManuscriptsLeaf Collection no. 0825Yale Center for British Art, Paul Mellon Collection
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 N⁶Includes 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, 3239Incunabula short title catalogue, id00035000Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D35Hain, L. Repertorium bibliographicum, 5953* = 5945Gesamtkatalog der Wiegendrucke, 7972Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, v. 5, p. 513BAC 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. | Italian poetry -- To 1400. | Epic poetry, Italian -- Early works to 1800. | Hugo, Harold -- Bookplate. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.