Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
: Inc 6120 (A) IN PROCESS
N° ISTCid00029000
AuteurDante Alighieri
TitreLa Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
Adresse bibliographiqueFlorence : Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481
Formatf°
Langueita
SujetLiterature
Mots cléspoetry; commentary; collection
Périodemedieval
Description de l’exemplaire
ID de l’exemplaire02141204
Institution de conservationCambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
CoteInc 6120 (A) IN PROCESS
NoteCreated 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.
Description matérielleTwo 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.”
Taille du feuillet416 × 278 mm
Particularités d'exemplaire (complétude)Incomplète
Support du textePapier
SourceA. 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.
Provenance
1481 -
1503
LieuFlorence (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Aire géographiquee-it
Période1481 - 1503
Type de provenanceArmes
Décoration
Note sur le décorTwo 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.
EnluminuresOui
Lettres ornementalesOui
ArmesOui
Initiales manuscrites non ornéesOui
Note sur la rubricationInitials elsewhere added in blue in the Inferno and Purgatorio; spaces in Paradiso, with guide-letters, not filled in. (1481 ca.)
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est à vérifier
SourceCatalogue de bibliothèque
Source documentaire
Provenance
1501 -
1600
Aire géographiquee
Période1501 - 1600
Type de provenanceAnnotations manuscrites
Notes manuscritesManuscript 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.
ComplémentsOui
CollationOui
Provenance
1728 -
1728
LieuFlorence (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Aire géographiquee-it
Période1728 - 1728
Type de provenanceInscription
NoteOwnership annotation on front flyleaves of vols. 1-2: "Della Libreria di Carlo Tommaso del Senatore Alessandro Strozzi 1728".
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceCatalogue de bibliothèque
Provenance
1871 -
1871
Aire géographiquee-it
Période1871 - 1871
Type de provenanceSource documentaire
NoteR. 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.
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est à vérifier
SourceSource documentaire
Provenance
1871 -
1905
LieuCambridge (Geonames ID: 4931972)
Aire géographiquen-us-ma
Période1871 - 1905
Type de provenanceEx-libris
Source (d'information) bibliographique
NoteBookplate 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).
Mode d’acquisitionAchat
Description de la reliureBound in three volumes in half 19th-century calf and red boards.
Date de reliure19ème siècle
Type de reliurePlats
Type de platPapier
Materiau de reliureMixte
Accessoires (Fermoirs, boulons…)Non / Absent
Statut de la reliure/Etat de la reliureRelié à nouveau
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceCatalogue de bibliothèque
Source documentaire
Provenance
1905 -
LieuCambridge (Geonames ID: 4931972)
Aire géographiquen-us-ma
Période1905 -
Type de provenanceSource (d'information) bibliographique
NoteNorton 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).
Mode d’acquisitionAchat
Niveau de certitudeCette provenance est considérée comme certaine
SourceCatalogue de bibliothèque
Informations supplémentaires
ComplétudeLa description des marques de provenance est considérée comme incomplète
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