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mei/02141186 17280 [02141186]

Manchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (GB) : 17280

ISTC Nr.id00029000
VerfasserDante Alighieri
TitelLa Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
ErscheinungsvermerkFlorence : Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481
Formatf°
Spracheita
zum vollständigen Datensatz
ThemenbereichLiterature
Stichwörterpoetry; commentary; collection
Zeitraummedieval

Beschreibung des Exemplars

Exemplar Nr.02141186
Besitzende BibliothekManchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (GB)
Signatur17280
AnmerkungCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481", with data provided by Julianne Simpson (Manchester, John Rylands University Library).
Physische BeschreibungContaining 20 engravings, the first two printed directly on the page and the following 17 printed on plates and pasted in (Category D of Hind's classification system). An additional illustration to Canto III is on leaf c2 recto.
Engraving mounted on blank leaf [pi]1 verso with image of Dante's Inferno in Tuscan Florentine style, dated 1460-1480 (circa); in the centre Lucifer torture several damned souls and in his claws holds seven kings, of whom four bear their titles; surrounded by damned souls being tortured by devils; inscribed in upper corner: QUESTO ELINFERNO DEL CHA[M]POSAN / TO DI PISA (see A.M. Hind, "Early Italian engraving", v. 1, London, 1938, p. 49 n.59). The additional illustration on leaf c2 and the Camposanto engraving were transferred from another copy, now at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Format des Druckbogens410 × mm
Besonderheiten des ExemplarsIn this copy three letters are inserted regarding the provenance and historical sales of the volume, two of which are handwritten. The first is a reply to a letter of Oct. 29. 37, from A. M. Hind of the British Museum, and confirms that the volume was purchased by Lord Spencer in 1819-20. The second letter - to Henry Guppy, former librarian of The John Rylands Library, from A. M. Hind of the British Museum - is dated Dec. 30 1937, and discusses the confusion surrounding the present copy of the Commedia. This letter is attached to a second, dated Dec. 21 1937, written by Sd. Lucius Wilmerding, an American antiquarian and trustee of the New York Historical Society, in which Wilmerding discusses his own copy of the edition and suggests that errors may have been made in Dibdin's catalogue of Spencer's collection (see A.M. Hind, "Early Italian engraving", v. 1, London, 1938, pp. 106-107).
Trägermaterial (Buch)Papier
QuelleT. F. Dibdin, "Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century and of many valuable first editions in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G.", W. Bulmer and co., London 1815, IV, pp. 114-115.
A. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving. A critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described", Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970, pp. 106-107.
“Commento sopra la «Commedia»”, edited by Paolo Procaccioli, Salerno, Rome 2014, p. 134.

Provenienz 1481 - 1500

OrtAvignon? (Geonames ID: 3035681)
Regione-fr
Zeitraum1481 - 1500
ProvenienznameAnonymous, 1481-1500 [Person; Illuminator] (Künstler, Unbekannt)
Art der ProvienienzAusstattung
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. [pi]2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. aa3r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Red and blue initials, l. b1v
Anmerkung zur AusgestaltungAt the beginning of the “Comento” and of each prologo and cantica, six French-style (Avignon?) illuminated initials in gold on blue and red ground, decorated with fine floral motifs in white (leaves [pi]2r, a2r, aa2r, aa3r, A2r, A3r), some f these were probably added later in the same style; numerous initials and paragraph marks painted alternately in red and blue.
IlluminiertJa
SchmuckbuchstabenJa
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1481 -

OrtFlorence (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Regione-it
Zeitraum1481 -
ProvenienznamePeruzzi, family of Florence, 1301 - [Vorbesitzer] (Gewerbebetrieb, Adel)
Art der ProvienienzAusstattung
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. a2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. aa2r
Anmerkung zur AusgestaltungThe illuminated initials at the beginning of Inferno (a2r) and Purgatorio (aa2r) are decorated with three golden pears, an armorial symbol associated with the Florentine Peruzzi family. The checkered initials are illuminated in a French style, therefore the volume could have been owned by a member of the family that spent some time in France.
WappenJa
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1501 - 1600

Regione-it
Zeitraum1501 - 1600
ProvenienznameAnonimo [Person; Annotator]
Art der ProvienienzHandschriftliche Anmerkungen
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Note, manicula, drawings, l. s3v
msNoteOn leaf s3 verso, late sixteenth-century reading note, with manicula and underlining, which reads: "dante pazzo, et appasionato". Occasional corrections in a late sixteenth-century hand.
hasMsCorrectionsbooleanyes
hasMsCommentsbooleanyes
hasMsReadingMarksbooleanyes
hasMsDrawingsbooleanyes
psourceb

provenance 1807 - 1834

placenameAlthorp (Geonames ID: 7296694)
areae-uk-en
timeperiod1807 - 1834
ownerSpencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834 (, )
Lewis, Charles, 1786 - 1836 (, )
provenanceType1
1
1
1
provenanceImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Binding, front cover
noteThis copy has been confused by Dibdin (T. F. Dibdin, "Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century and of many valuable first editions in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G.", W. Bulmer and co., London 1815, IV, no. 814) and many other with the one that once belonged to Mr. Wilbraham, now at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
methodofacqa
bindingNoteNinteenth-century purple goatskin binding by Charles Lewis; gilt-rolled board edges and turn-ins; spine, seven compartments gilt-rolled; direct-lettered in gilt in second, third and fourth compartment: DANTE / DA LANDINO / FIRENZE M. CCCC. LXXXI / CON FIGURE XX / DI BALDINI; front and rear boards stamped with Spencer arms (Stamp 15) and motto in gilt: "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; all edges gilt.
bindingDatew
bindingTypec
coverMaterialb
furniture1
bindingStatusb
Titling
ToolingGoldprägung
EdgesGoldschnitt
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1835 - 1892

OrtAlthorp (Geonames ID: 11670133)
Regione-uk
Zeitraum1835 - 1892
ProvenienznameSpencer, John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer, 1835-1910 [Person; Vorbesitzer] (Männlich, Politiker, Adel)
Art der ProvienienzExlibirs
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Label
AnmerkungOval leather label on the verso of the first flyleaf: "E Bibliotheca Spenceriana".
Art der ErwerbungErbschaft
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1892 - 1892

OrtManchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
Regione-uk
Zeitraum1892 - 1892
ProvenienznameRylands, Enriqueta Augustina , 1843 – 1908 [Person; Schenker] (Weiblich)
Art der Provienienzsonstige schriftliche Quellen
AnmerkungThe volume was part of the Spencer library, which was acquired by Enriqueta Rylands from John Poyntz Spencer in 1892. This purchase was the core of the newly funded John Rylands Library.
Art der ErwerbungKauf
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1892 -

OrtDeansgate, Manchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
Regione-uk
Zeitraum1892 -
ProvenienznameManchester, John Rylands University Library, 1900 [Körperschaft; Besitzer] (Bibliothek, Keine Characterisierung / Laie)
Guppy, Henry, 1861 - 1948 [Person; Biliothekar] (Männlich, Bibliothek, Keine Characterisierung / Laie)
Art der ProvienienzBuchhistorische Evidenz
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Guppy's note
AnmerkungOn recto of the second flyleaf ink annotation in the Henry Guppy hand: "This copy was bought by Spencer between 1807 and 1815 / Beloe in his "Anecdotes" (1807) still refers to it as the Wilbraham / copy."
Art der ErwerbungGeschenk
QuelleBibliographie

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Letzte Änderung2021-11-14 18:37:26

Alle Exemplare

  02141186

Manchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (GB) : 17280

ISTC Nr.id00029000
VerfasserDante Alighieri
TitelLa Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
ErscheinungsvermerkFlorence : Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481
Formatf°
Spracheita
zum vollständigen Datensatz
ThemenbereichLiterature
Stichwörterpoetry; commentary; collection
Zeitraummedieval

Beschreibung des Exemplars

Exemplar Nr.02141186
Besitzende BibliothekManchester, University of Manchester, John Rylands Research Institute and Library (GB)
Signatur17280
AnmerkungCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481", with data provided by Julianne Simpson (Manchester, John Rylands University Library).
Physische BeschreibungContaining 20 engravings, the first two printed directly on the page and the following 17 printed on plates and pasted in (Category D of Hind's classification system). An additional illustration to Canto III is on leaf c2 recto.
Engraving mounted on blank leaf [pi]1 verso with image of Dante's Inferno in Tuscan Florentine style, dated 1460-1480 (circa); in the centre Lucifer torture several damned souls and in his claws holds seven kings, of whom four bear their titles; surrounded by damned souls being tortured by devils; inscribed in upper corner: QUESTO ELINFERNO DEL CHA[M]POSAN / TO DI PISA (see A.M. Hind, "Early Italian engraving", v. 1, London, 1938, p. 49 n.59). The additional illustration on leaf c2 and the Camposanto engraving were transferred from another copy, now at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Format des Druckbogens410 × mm
Besonderheiten des ExemplarsIn this copy three letters are inserted regarding the provenance and historical sales of the volume, two of which are handwritten. The first is a reply to a letter of Oct. 29. 37, from A. M. Hind of the British Museum, and confirms that the volume was purchased by Lord Spencer in 1819-20. The second letter - to Henry Guppy, former librarian of The John Rylands Library, from A. M. Hind of the British Museum - is dated Dec. 30 1937, and discusses the confusion surrounding the present copy of the Commedia. This letter is attached to a second, dated Dec. 21 1937, written by Sd. Lucius Wilmerding, an American antiquarian and trustee of the New York Historical Society, in which Wilmerding discusses his own copy of the edition and suggests that errors may have been made in Dibdin's catalogue of Spencer's collection (see A.M. Hind, "Early Italian engraving", v. 1, London, 1938, pp. 106-107).
Trägermaterial (Buch)Papier
QuelleT. F. Dibdin, "Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century and of many valuable first editions in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G.", W. Bulmer and co., London 1815, IV, pp. 114-115.
A. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving. A critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described", Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970, pp. 106-107.
“Commento sopra la «Commedia»”, edited by Paolo Procaccioli, Salerno, Rome 2014, p. 134.

Provenienz 1481 - 1500

OrtAvignon? (Geonames ID: 3035681)
Regione-fr
Zeitraum1481 - 1500
ProvenienznameAnonymous, 1481-1500 [Person; Illuminator] (Künstler, Unbekannt)
Art der ProvienienzAusstattung
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. [pi]2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. aa3r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Red and blue initials, l. b1v
Anmerkung zur AusgestaltungAt the beginning of the “Comento” and of each prologo and cantica, six French-style (Avignon?) illuminated initials in gold on blue and red ground, decorated with fine floral motifs in white (leaves [pi]2r, a2r, aa2r, aa3r, A2r, A3r), some f these were probably added later in the same style; numerous initials and paragraph marks painted alternately in red and blue.
IlluminiertJa
SchmuckbuchstabenJa
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1481 -

OrtFlorence (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Regione-it
Zeitraum1481 -
ProvenienznamePeruzzi, family of Florence, 1301 - [Vorbesitzer] (Gewerbebetrieb, Adel)
Art der ProvienienzAusstattung
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. a2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Initial, l. aa2r
Anmerkung zur AusgestaltungThe illuminated initials at the beginning of Inferno (a2r) and Purgatorio (aa2r) are decorated with three golden pears, an armorial symbol associated with the Florentine Peruzzi family. The checkered initials are illuminated in a French style, therefore the volume could have been owned by a member of the family that spent some time in France.
WappenJa
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1501 - 1600

Regione-it
Zeitraum1501 - 1600
ProvenienznameAnonimo [Person; Annotator]
Art der ProvienienzHandschriftliche Anmerkungen
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Note, manicula, drawings, l. s3v
Handschr. EintragungenOn leaf s3 verso, late sixteenth-century reading note, with manicula and underlining, which reads: "dante pazzo, et appasionato". Occasional corrections in a late sixteenth-century hand.
KorrekturenJa
KommentareJa
Markierungen des LesersJa
ZeichnungenJa
QuelleBibliographie

Provenienz 1807 - 1834

OrtAlthorp (Geonames ID: 7296694)
Regione-uk-en
Zeitraum1807 - 1834
ProvenienznameSpencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834 [Person; Vorbesitzer] (Männlich, Politiker, Adel)
Lewis, Charles, 1786 - 1836 [Person; Buchbinder] (Männlich, Buchhandel/Buchhändler, Keine Characterisierung / Laie)
Art der ProvienienzWappen
Motto
Einband
Buchhistorische Evidenz
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Binding, front cover
AnmerkungThis copy has been confused by Dibdin (T. F. Dibdin, "Bibliotheca Spenceriana; or a descriptive catalogue of the books printed in the fifteenth century and of many valuable first editions in the library of George John Earl Spencer, K. G.", W. Bulmer and co., London 1815, IV, no. 814) and many other with the one that once belonged to Mr. Wilbraham, now at the Pierpont Morgan Library.
Art der ErwerbungKauf
Beschreibung des EinbandsNinteenth-century purple goatskin binding by Charles Lewis; gilt-rolled board edges and turn-ins; spine, seven compartments gilt-rolled; direct-lettered in gilt in second, third and fourth compartment: DANTE / DA LANDINO / FIRENZE M. CCCC. LXXXI / CON FIGURE XX / DI BALDINI; front and rear boards stamped with Spencer arms (Stamp 15) and motto in gilt: "Honi soit qui mal y pense"; all edges gilt.
Bindedatum19. Jh.
Art des EinbandsHolzbuchdecke
EinbandmaterialLeder
FurnitureJa
Status des EinbandsNeu gebunden
TitlingGeprägt
ToolingGoldprägung
EdgesGoldschnitt
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1835 - 1892

OrtAlthorp (Geonames ID: 11670133)
Regione-uk
Zeitraum1835 - 1892
ProvenienznameSpencer, John Poyntz, 5th Earl Spencer, 1835-1910 [Person; Vorbesitzer] (Männlich, Politiker, Adel)
Art der ProvienienzExlibirs
Abbildung des Provenienzmerkmals (URL)Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Label
AnmerkungOval leather label on the verso of the first flyleaf: "E Bibliotheca Spenceriana".
Art der ErwerbungErbschaft
QuelleAutopsie

Provenienz 1892 - 1892

OrtManchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
Regione-uk
Zeitraum1892 - 1892
ProvenienznameRylands, Enriqueta Augustina , 1843 – 1908 [Person; Schenker] (Weiblich)
Art der Provienienzsonstige schriftliche Quellen
AnmerkungThe volume was part of the Spencer library, which was acquired by Enriqueta Rylands from John Poyntz Spencer in 1892. This purchase was the core of the newly funded John Rylands Library.
Art der ErwerbungKauf
psourcea

provenance 1892 -

placenameDeansgate, Manchester (Geonames ID: 2643123)
areae-uk
timeperiod1892 -
ownerManchester, John Rylands University Library, 1900 (, )
Guppy, Henry, 1861 - 1948 (, )
provenanceType1
provenanceImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Guppy's note
noteOn recto of the second flyleaf ink annotation in the Henry Guppy hand: "This copy was bought by Spencer between 1807 and 1815 / Beloe in his "Anecdotes" (1807) still refers to it as the Wilbraham / copy."
methodofacqb
psourceb

otherInformation

completeness1
Letzte Änderung2021-11-14 18:37:26