Wien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (AT)
: Ink 7.B.3
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°
Languageita
SubjectLiterature
Keywordspoetry; commentary; collection
Periodmedieval
Description of Copy
Copy Id02117472
Holding InstitutionWien, Österreichische Nationalbibliothek (AT)
CollectionZALT-INK
ShelfmarkInk 7.B.3
Physical DescriptionContaining 20 engravings, of which the first two are printed directly on the page and the following 18 are printed on plates and pasted in. Engraving no. 6 is repeated. The engravings are not coloured, but no. 8 is retouched with brown ink in a few damaged spots.
Size of leaves417 × 258 mm
Copy Features - NoteFrom Batines, "Bibliografia dantesca", p. 41: "lo cita il Dibdin nel suo Bibliogr. Tour (III 322)."
Support material (book)Paper
SourceThomas Frognall Dibdin, "A Bibliographical Antiquarian and Picturesque Tour in France and Germany", W. Bulmer and W. Nicol, London 1821, p. 518.
G. Mambelli, "Gli annali delle edizioni dantesche", Zanichelli, Bologna 1931, p. 21.
A. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving. A critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described", Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970, p. 107.
Paul de Colomb de Batines, "Bibliografia dantesca: Catalogo delle edizioni, traduzioni, codici manoscritti e comenti della Divina Commedia e delle opere minori di Dante, seguito dalla serie de' biografi di lui", Salerno Editrice, Roma 2008, I, p. 41.
“Commento sopra la «Commedia»”, edited by Paolo Procaccioli, Salerno, Rome 2014, p. 144.
Provenance
1481 -
1600
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1600
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesText omissions supplied in manuscript on leaves q5v (Inf. XXVIII, 34-36), r3v (Inf. XXX, 126-129) and hh1r (Purg. XXI, 47-48). Reading mark and note in light brown ink partly washed away, including a manicula, on leaf <i>r.
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
CollationYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1807 -
Areae-au
Time period1807 -
Provenance TypeStamp
Bibliographic Evidence
Shelfmark
NoteLabel with shelfmark on the front pastedown. Round stamps of the "Kaiserliche Koenigliche Hofbibliothek".
On the first front endleaf there is a folded envelope that contains a drawing of the variation of engravings no. 3, executed in 1807. On the envelope paper a note written in French by a librarian of the Hofbibliothek states that in 1807 the variation was discovered in a copy belonging to count Karl Friedrich Albrecht Finck von Finckenstein. A later note states that that copy was at the British Library in 1845.
Binding noteHalf leather strap: bare faceted wooden cover, leather spine with gilt title and date, green edges on three sides. Undated (around 1800?). 430x270mm.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusRebound
TitlingTooled
ToolingGold
EdgesColoured
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2021-05-19 14:26:07