Dante Alighieri:
La Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
ISTC No.id00029000
AuthorDante Alighieri
TitleLa Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
ImprintFlorence : Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481
Formatf°
Notes20 copper engravings are known, attributed to Baccio Baldini from designs by Sandro Botticelli, to accompany the first 19 Cantos of the Inferno (A.M. Hind, Early Italian engraving I (London, 1938) pp. 99-116). For extensive notes on engravings in the US copies see Goff
For notes on variants and characteristics of individual copies, see C. Landino, Comento sopra la Comedia, a cura di Paolo Procaccioli (Roma, 2001), t.1 pp.127-73
Language of itemita
Reference worksGoff D29; HC 5946*; Sander 2311; Sotheby's (London), 25 May 1995, 11; Pell 4114 & 4114A; CIBN D-13; Aquilon 250; Buffévent 169; Castan(Besançon) 376; Polain(B) 1223; SI 1292; IDL 1464; IBE 282; IGI 360; IBP 1835; IJL2 145; Coll(U) 469; Coll(S) 1210; Madsen 1332; Günt(L) 1066; Voull(B) 2883; Deckert(Nachtr) 4; Hubay(Augsburg) 669; Walsh 2851, 2852, 2853, 2854; Oates 2334; Rhodes(Oxford Colleges) 651; Bod-inc D-012; Sheppard 5061; Pr 6120; BMC VI 628; BSB-Ink D-9; GW 7966
Related resourcesMicrofiche: Primary Source Microfilm (an imprint of Cengage Learning), 2005. Incunabula: the Printing Revolution in Europe 1455-1500. Unit 71 - Printing in Florence Part I, FL 37
Holdings
AustriaWien, Bibliothek der Graphischen Sammlung Albertina
Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (Ink 7.B.3: GW 7966 Anm.)
BelgiumBrussels, Royal Library of Belgium (C 207 fragment, F.S.XI.2)
Liège, Bibliothèque de l'Université
BelarusMinsk, National Library of Belarus
DenmarkCopenhagen, Det Kongelige Bibliotek
FranceBesançon, Bibliothèque Municipale
Carpentras, Bibliothèque Municipale
Paris Musée des lettres et manuscrits (coll. privée)
Paris Musée du Louvre (Rothschild)
Paris, Bibliothèque de Sainte-Geneviève
Paris, Bibliothèque nationale de France (8, 1 vellum, 1 engravings only; cf. CIBN)
Paris, Institut National d'Histoire de l'Art (imperfect)
Paris, Musée du Petit Palais
Tours, Bibliothèque Municipale
GermanyAugsburg, Staats- und Stadtbibliothek (imperfect)
Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett
Berlin, Staatl. Museen PK, Kunstbibliothek
Dresden, Sächsische Landes- und Universitätsbibliothek
Hamburg, Bibliothek der Hamburger Kunsthalle
Köln USB (imperfect)
Leipzig DB/Buch (now Moscow)
Mainz GM/StB (2 leaves only, GM-Ink.655a+b)
München, Bayerische Staatsbibliothek (2, 1 fragment (1 leaf)
Staats- und Universitätsbibliothek Hamburg
Stuttgart, Württembergische Landesbibliothek
ItalyArezzo, Biblioteca Città di Arezzo
Biblioteca Centrale della Regione Siciliana "Alberto Bombace"
Bologna C
Bologna, Biblioteca Universitaria
Castiglione del Terziere-Bagnone, Biblioteca del Castello (imperfect)
Figline Valdarno, Biblioteca dell’Istituto Marsilio Ficino (imperfect)
Firenze Acc Belle Arti
Firenze Horne (fragment)
Firenze, Biblioteca Marucelliana
Firenze, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale (5: Magl. A.-.6, Banco Rari 11, Banco Rari 12, Banco Rari 341 vellum, Magl. M.-.6 imperfect, wanting quires [**6], a10, b8, f. c1 and engravings)
Firenze, Biblioteca Riccardiana (2, 1 imperfect 18 engr)
Firenze, Biblioteca dell'Accademia della Crusca (INC. 14)
Firenze, Cassa di Risparmio di Firenze, Fondazione Ridolfi
Firenze, Società Dantesca Italiana (2)
Genova Franzon (copy destroyed in the Second World War)
Genova, Biblioteca Civica Berio
Genova, Biblioteca Durazzo *BP (imperfect)
Grottaferrata, Biblioteca Statale del Monumento Nazionale di Grottaferrata (INC IV, 8 imperfect)
Livorno, Biblioteca Labronica «F. D. Guerrazzi»
Lucca, Statale (2, 1 imperfect)
Milano, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense
Milano, Biblioteca Trivulziana
Modena, Biblioteca Estense Universitaria (2)
Napoli, Biblioteca Nazionale Vittorio Emanuele III (2)
Napoli, Biblioteca Statale Oratoriana dei Girolamini (stolen in the 1950s)
Napoli, Biblioteca Universitaria
Novara, Biblioteca civica Carlo Negroni
Palermo, Biblioteca “Mons. Cataldo Naro” della Facoltà Teologica di Palermo, Biblioteca Centrale per le Chiese di Sicilia (imperfect)
Parma, Biblioteca Palatina
Pavia, Biblioteca Civica "Carlo Bonetta"
Pisa, Biblioteca Universitaria
Poppi, Biblioteca Comunale Rilli - Vettori (2, 1 imperfect)
Ravenna, Francescani, Biblioteca del Centro dantesco OFM
Ravenna, Istituzione Biblioteca Classense
Roma, Biblioteca Angelica (Inc. 447 imperfect, 2 engr )
Roma, Biblioteca Casanatense (Vol. Inc. 926)
Roma, Biblioteca Vallicelliana (Z 79/1)
Roma, Biblioteca dell'Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei e Corsiniana (51.G.3-4)
Roma, Casa di Dante
Roma, Fondazione Marco Besso
Sassari, Biblioteca Comunale
Siena, Biblioteca Comunale degli Intronati (2)
Torino, Biblioteca Nazionale Universitaria
Treviso, Biblioteca Comunale di Borgo Cavour
Venezia, Biblioteca Nazionale Marciana (imperfect, 18 engr)
Venezia, Liceo Foscarini
Verona, Biblioteca Capitolare
JapanKyoto Sangyo University Library
Tokyo UL (imperfect)
Tokyo, Meiji University Central Library (a,b,c)
LatviaRiga, National Library of Latvia
The NetherlandsAmsterdam UB (Part of Bibliotheca Philosophica Hermetica State collection) (copy sold)
The Hague, Museum Meermanno-Westreenianum (004 A 007)
PolandWrocław, Ossolineum
RussiaMoscow, Russian State Library (3, 1 Leipzig DB/Buch copy, 1 Dresden copy)
St Petersburg, National Library of Russia
SpainBarcelona, Biblioteca de Catalunya
Santiago de Compostela, Biblioteca Universitaria
SwedenStockholm, Kungliga Bibliotheket
Uppsala, University Library (imperfect)
SwitzerlandGenève (Cologny), Fondation Martin Bodmer
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern IrelandCambridge, King's College Library
Cambridge, Trinity College (2)
Cambridge, University Library
Chatsworth, Devonshire Collection, Library
Glasgow, Mitchell Library
London, British Library (C.7.e.7 = IC.27095a) (Contains only plate 2)
London, British Library (G.10874 = IC.27095b)
London, British Library (IC.27094)
London, British Library (IC.27095) (Contains only 3 impressions of the first 2 plates and is not in BMC)
London, British Library (IC.27096) (Contains 9 impressions of 8 plates (C.M. Cracherode's copy))
London, British Museum (Prints & Drawings) (engravings only)
London, Sir John Soane's Museum
London, University College
Manchester, John Rylands University Library (17280)
National Library of Scotland (Edinburgh) (Inc.210)
Oxford, Bodleian Library
Oxford, Keble College
United States of AmericaBaltimore MD, The Walters Art Museum Library (2)
Boston Public Library (Q.401.20)
Bowdoin College (-)
Brown Univ., John Hay Library
Cambridge MA, Harvard Library, Houghton Library (5)
Chicago, The Newberry Library
Claremont Colleges, Honnold Library (Bodman Coll.) (-)
Cornell Univ. Libraries (4 engr. fac.)
Indiana Univ., The Lilly Library
Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum
Kalamazoo College (-)
La Casa del Libro
Loyola Marymount Univ. Library (2 engr. + 19 in fac.)
Middletown, Wesleyan Univ. Library
Mills College
Mt. Holyoke College
New Haven CT, Yale University, Beinecke Library
New York Public Library, Rare Book Division (-)
New York Public Library, Spencer Collection
New York, The Morgan Library and Museum
Princeton Univ., Firestone Library
San Marino CA, Huntington Library
Stanford Univ. Library (2 engr.)
Univ. of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign Library
Univ. of Notre Dame, The Univ. Library
Washington DC, Library of Congress, Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection
Washington, Library of Congress, Rare Book Division
Wellesley College Library
Williams College, Chapin Library
Vatican CityCittà del Vaticano, Biblioteca Apostolica Vaticana (4: Inc.II.264, Stamp.Ross.1491, Stamp.Chig.S.111, Inc.S.153)
Number of holding institutions134
Last Edit2023-11-01 12:00:00.00
