Yale Center for British Art

Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Title:
Danthe Alighieri Fiorentino.
Alternate Title(s):
Caption on leaf [superscript pi]a1v: Comento di Christophoro Landino Fiorentino sopra la comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta Fiorentino
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:
Rare Books and Manuscripts
Leaf Collection no. 0825
Yale 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 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. | Italian poetry -- To 1400. | Epic poetry, Italian -- Early works to 1800. | Hugo, Harold -- Bookplate. | Werther, Frederick, 1881– -- Ownership. | Incunabula in Yale Library.
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.