Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
: Inc 6120 (A) IN PROCESS
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
ThemenbereichLiterature
Stichwörterpoetry; commentary; collection
Zeitraummedieval
Beschreibung des Exemplars
Exemplar Nr.02141204
Besitzende BibliothekCambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
SignaturInc 6120 (A) IN PROCESS
AnmerkungCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481"; revised by John Lancaster with additional information from Lilian Armstrong. Record created from Walsh and other secondary sources; book not yet examined.
Physische BeschreibungTwo engravings for Cantos I and II (Category A of Hind's classification system). Leaf a2 has been rebacked in the lower margin where the engraving has been impressed, with some damage to the lower margin of the engraving; leaf h8 wanting; blank leaf 2π2 not present. In this copy the last line of commentary to the Purgatorio (oo6v) has reading “per sua infinita misericordia”; Landino’s prologue to the Paradiso (A1r, missigned aaa1) is set up in 47 lines, the last beginning “te ciriempie.”
Format des Druckbogens416 × 278 mm
FeaturesUnvollständig
Trägermaterial (Buch)Papier
QuelleA. M. Hind, "Early Italian Engraving. A critical catalogue with complete reproduction of all the prints described", Kraus Reprint, Nendeln 1970, p. 104.
J. E. Walsh, "A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library", Binghamton NY, Tempe AZ, 1991-95, 2851.
L. Armstrong, "The Hand-Illumination of Printed Books in Italy 1465-1515", in "The Painted Page. Italian Renaissance Book Illumination 1450-1550", Prestel, München 1994, pp. 35-47, at pp. 39-40.
R. Jacoff, "Charles Eliot Norton's 'Medicean Dante'", in "Harvard Library Bulletin", n.s. 5:3 (1994), 45-52.
Provenienz
1481 -
1503
Regione-it
Zeitraum1481 - 1503
Art der ProvienienzWappen
Ausstattung
Anmerkung zur AusgestaltungTwo engravings for Cantos I and II. Large initials, with marginal extensions, illuminated in gold and colours on l. a2r of the Inferno and on ll. aa2r and aa3r of the Purgatorio, the first including a portrait of Dante. A floral border on a2r includes a Medici coat of arms, identified by R. Jacoff (see above) as most likely that of Lorenzo di Pierfrancesco de' Medici; she and Lilian Armstrong also attribute the painting to the School of Francesco di Antonio del Chierico.
IlluminiertJa
SchmuckbuchstabenJa
WappenJa
Pen initialsJa
Rubrication noteInitials elsewhere added in blue in the Inferno and Purgatorio; spaces in Paradiso, with guide-letters, not filled in. (1481 ca.)
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Provenienz
1501 -
1600
Regione
Zeitraum1501 - 1600
Art der ProvienienzHandschriftliche Anmerkungen
Handschr. EintragungenManuscript notes, completions. At the end of Canto XII (l. h7v), manuscript verses of the beginning of Canto XIII (Inf. XIII, 1-9). Missing verses (Purg. XXXII, 46-51) supplied in manuscript on l. oo1v.
VervollständigungenJa
KollationJa
Provenienz
1728 -
1728
Regione-it
Zeitraum1728 - 1728
Art der ProvienienzSchriftliche Eintragung
AnmerkungOwnership annotation on front flyleaves of vols. 1-2: "Della Libreria di Carlo Tommaso del Senatore Alessandro Strozzi 1728".
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Provenienz
1871 -
1871
Regione-it
Zeitraum1871 - 1871
Art der Provienienzsonstige schriftliche Quellen
AnmerkungR. Jacoff (see above) records Norton as having purchased this copy from Gaetano Romagnoli, bookseller in Bologna, in 1871 (not specifically footnoted, but probably based on the Norton correspondence).
Note written by Romagnoli with information on the edition and on the copy, pasted on the first flyleaf.
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Provenienz
1871 -
1905
OrtCambridge (Geonames ID: 4931972)
Regionn-us-ma
Zeitraum1871 - 1905
Art der ProvienienzExlibirs
Buchhistorische Evidenz
AnmerkungBookplate of Charles Eliot Norton on front pastedown. Norton purchased this copy in spring of 1871, as he states in a letter written to James Russell Lowell from Venice in May 1871 (C. Y. Dupont, "Collecting and Reading Dante in America: Harvard College Library and the Dante Society", in "Harvard Library Bulletin" 22:1 (2011), 1-57, at p. 24).
Art der ErwerbungKauf
Beschreibung des EinbandsBound in three volumes in half 19th-century calf and red boards.
Bindedatum19. Jh.
Art des EinbandsHolzbuchdecke
Material der BuchdeckePapier
EinbandmaterialGemischt
FurnitureNein
Status des EinbandsNeu gebunden
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Provenienz
1905 -
OrtCambridge (Geonames ID: 4931972)
Regionn-us-ma
Zeitraum1905 -
Art der ProvienienzBuchhistorische Evidenz
AnmerkungNorton wanted to donate his collection to Harvard, but he had to sell it due to financial reasons. A group of admirers thus raised fifteen thousand dollars to purchase his collection for Harvard Library (J. Turner, "The Liberal Education of Charles Eliot Norton", Johns Hopkins University Press, Baltimore 1999, pp. 407-408).
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