Glasgow, Public Library, Mitchell Library (GB)
: 167509
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 Id02141240
Holding InstitutionGlasgow, Public Library, Mitchell Library (GB)
Shelfmark167509
NoteCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481", with data provided by Patricia Grant (Glasgow, Mitchell Library).
Physical DescriptionThree engravings: one for Canto I, one for Canto II and a repetition of the second engraving before Canto III (Cathegory B of Hind's classification system). The engraving before Canto 1 is slightly cropped; the engraving before Canto 3 is more heavily inked.
Size of leaves342 × 255 mm
Copy Features - NoteWanting [*1] and the six blank leaves; many leaves at beginning and end badly water-damaged (several re-margined); some running headlines cropped.
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, p. 105.
“Commento sopra la «Commedia»”, edited by Paolo Procaccioli, Salerno, Rome 2014, p. 132.
J. Baldwin, "A catalogue of fifteenth-century printed books in Glasgow"
Provenance
1481 -
1600
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1600
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesFrequent marginal annotations in Italian, especially in the "Inferno" (generally extracting names and keywords). Text omissions supplied in manuscript on leaves e1r (Inf. VI, 55-57) and l9v (Inf. XVII, 73-75).
Ms. notes (frequency)Several
Extraction of keywordsYes
CollationYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1700 -
1800
Time period1700 - 1800
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Binding note18th-century half vellum, grey paper-covered pasteboards; gilt spine title and a manuscript paper title affixed to spine; dark green-edged leaves.
Binding date18th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialPaper
Binding statusRebound
Binding Dimensions350 × 258 × mm
TitlingManuscript label
EdgesColoured
Manuscript notesUnderlining in a 18th-century hand in the 'Inferno'; several marginal annotations in the 'Purgatorio' in a different 18th-century hand; letter “D” (duplicate?) in pencil on front pastedown.
Ms. notes (frequency)Several
Extraction of keywordsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1848
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Time period - 1848
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
Manuscript notes19th-century note in pencil on the three engraved plates on front pastedown; 19th-century annotations “S121” and “DQ” in pencil, “2005” in black ink, and initials “J M B” in purple ink on front pastedown; 19th-century number “31” in pencil on rear pastedown.
Personal NotesYes
SourceBibliography
Provenance
1848 -
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1848 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteThe volume was purchased from Ogle on May 23, 1848 according to Euing’s pencil acquisition note with price code “23 5 48 ca/f Og” on front pastedown.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1874 -
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1874 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
Stamp
NoteStirling Library's bookplate on front free endpaper inscribed “A Donation from Wm. Euing Esq”. Stamps of the Stirling & Glasgow Public Library.
Method of acquisitionDonation
StampsOval stamps: "Public Sterling's & Glasgow Library, established 1791"
SourceBook in hand
Provenance
1874 -
PlaceGlasgow (Geonames ID: 2648579)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1874 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteBookplate of the Mitchell Library on front pastedown.
SourceBook in hand
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
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