Cambridge, Trinity College (GB)
: Grylls 2.194
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 Id02141143
Holding InstitutionCambridge, Trinity College (GB)
ShelfmarkGrylls 2.194
NoteCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481" with data and images provided by Nicolas Bell of Trinity College.
Physical DescriptionContains two engravings for Cantos I and II (Category A of Hind's classification system) and 21 watercolour drawings, the latter taken from an early MS. of Dante (according to a printed slip inserted at the front of the book) and pasted onto the margins. Lacks the last two blank leaves (sig. L11-12). Sigs c2 and c9 are missing and have duplications of c1 and c10 in their place.
Copy Features - NoteFrom A. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving", pp. 104-105: "[...] shows a perfect and uncut impression of No. 1. In the same Grylls copy are pasted 21 little water-colours of the xv century, illustrating the poem, with MS. text verso. They are drawn with the pen in brown ink, with washes of brown, yellowish brown, rose, flesh colour, green, indigo and black, and have a vermilion border-line. In style they are like a very weak follower of Piero di Cosimo. They vary in size from 50 to 95 in height, and from 90 to 127 in width, and all occur in Cantos I-XII of the Inferno. They were probably cut from a MS."
Support material (book)Paper
SourceA. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving. A critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described", Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970, pp. 104-105.
“Commento sopra la «Commedia»”, edited by Paolo Procaccioli, Salerno, Rome 2014, p. 129.
A. E. Andriolo, S. Reynolds, "Illuminated Manuscrips and incunabula in Cambridge. Part five, vol. 1: books printed in Italy before 1501", London-Turnhout, Harvey Millers, 2017, pp. 262-263
Provenance
1481 -
1500
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1500
Provenance name [Illuminator]
Provenance TypeDecoration
Manuscript Notes
Decoration NoteContains two engravings for Cantos I and II (Category A of Hind's classification system) and 21 watercolour drawings, the latter taken from an early MS. of Dante.
From A. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving", pp. 104-105: "[...] shows a perfect and uncut impression of No. 1. In the same Grylls copy are pasted 21 little water-colours of the xv century, illustrating the poem, with MS. text verso. They are drawn with the pen in brown ink, with washes of brown, yellowish brown, rose, flesh colour, green, indigo and black, and have a vermilion border-line. In style they are like a very weak follower of Piero di Cosimo. They vary in size from 50 to 95 in height, and from 90 to 127 in width, and all occur in Cantos I-XII of the Inferno. They were probably cut from a MS."
From A. E. Andriolo, S. Reynolds, "Illuminated Manuscrips and incuanbula in Cambridge", pp. 262-263: "The pasted-in drawings are by an Italian hand of early fifteenth century (Brieger at al. 1969, II, Plates, Inferno), and have been cut out of a paper manuscript and added to this copy. Traces of the text (written in an accomplished, very neat semi-humanistic hand c. 1400) can be seen on the verso of some of these images, confirming that in the parent manuscript, they were not isolated in the lower margin as here, but embedded within the text."
Illustration coloured in by handYes
IlluminationsYes
Manuscript notesSome underlining in dark brown ink; one early pointing hand and marking of the text
Ms. notes (frequency)Occasional
Location in BookParts only
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1813 -
1857
PlaceLondon
Areae-uk-en
Time period1813 - 1857
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
Provenance
1857 -
1857
Areae-uk
Time period1857 - 1857
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSold at auction of Payne's collection by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson (London, 28 April 1857, lot 179) for £28.10s to Boone.
Date of evidence1857
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price£ 28.10
SourceBibliography
Provenance
1860 -
1860
Areae-uk-en
Time period1860 - 1860
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSold by S. Leigh Sotheby & John Wilkinson in a sale of 1860, lot 79, for £14.14. The catalogue description is bound before the front paper flyleaf with notes including Boone, but this might refer to Boone as a seller.
Date of evidence1860
Price£14.14
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1862 -
1862
Areae-uk-en
Time period1862 - 1862
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteSold at auction of Libri's collection by S. Leigh Sotheby and John Wilkinson (London, 25 July 1862, lot 178) for £9 (note of price noted in Grylls' copy of the sale catalogue).
SourceLibrary catalogue
Provenance
1862 -
1863
Areae-uk
Time period1862 - 1863
Provenance TypeInscription
NoteNote on recto of flyleaf "W. Grylls", and blind stamp in upper outer corner of fol. [*2]r.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding note19th-century gold tooled blue morocco, by Wiseman Cambridge, signed 'bound by Wiseman'.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusRebound
ToolingGold
Price9 £
SourceLibrary catalogue
Provenance
1863 -
PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 2653941)
Areae-uk
Time period1863 -
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteGrylls, alumnus of Trinity College, bequeathed his collection in 1863.
Method of acquisitionBequest
SourceLibrary catalogue
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
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