Cambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
: Typ Inc 6120 IN PROCESS
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 Id02141251
Holding InstitutionCambridge MA, Harvard University, Houghton Library (US)
CollectionPrinting and Graphic Arts
ShelfmarkTyp Inc 6120 IN PROCESS
NoteCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481"; revised by John Lancaster. Record created from Walsh and other secondary sources; book not yet examined.
Physical DescriptionTwo engravings for Cantos I and II (Category A of Hind's classification system). Last two blank leaves 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 is set up in 47 lines, the last beginning “te ciriempie.”
Size of leaves426 × 280 mm
Copy FeaturesIncomplete
Variant
No rubrication
Support material (book)Paper
SourceJ. E. Walsh, "A catalogue of the fifteenth-century printed books in the Harvard University Library", Binghamton NY, Tempe AZ, 1991-95, 2852.
Provenance
1481 -
1600
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1600
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Manuscript notesManuscript annotations, underlining, maniculae and some lines of text supplied in brown ink for a printing defect, 15th-16th century.
Extraction of keywordsYes
Reading marks (underlining and pointing hands)Yes
Provenance
Provenance TypeBinding
Binding noteHalf modern white pigskin and wooden boards; braided pigskin thongs fastened to metal pins on the edge of the front cover. [From Walsh; unclear what "modern" signifies; perhaps bound for Ticknor?]
Binding typeBoards
Board materialWood
Cover materialLeather
FurnitureYes
Binding statusRebound
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered uncertain
SourceLibrary catalogue
Provenance
1816 -
1871
PlaceCambridge (Geonames ID: 4931972)
Arean-us-ma
Time period1816 - 1871
Provenance TypeExlibris
Bibliographic Evidence
NoteBookplate of George Ticknor. When Ticknor was in Göttingen, in 1816, he received an invitation from Harvard asking him to accept the newly established Professorship of French and Spanish Languages and Literatures. The offer allowed him two years to prepare his lectures while continuing his European travels and supplied him with a thousand dollars to purchase books. During his travels, he used a portion of his Harvard book money to acquire, among other volumes, some twenty editions of Dante. This volume was not included in the large donations of books he began making in 1860 to the Boston Public Library, but it was donated by his heirs to the Harvard College Library after his death. One can assume that this happened because the copy was purchased with the Harvard funds, and thus was acquired by Ticknor during his European travels.
C. Y. Dupont, "Reading and Collecting Dante in America: Harvard College Library and the Dante Society", in "Harvard Library Bullettin", vol. 22:1 (2011), 1-57, at pp. 4-6.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceLibrary catalogue
Documentary source
Provenance
1896 -
Time period1896 -
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteSee above.
Method of acquisitionDonation
CertaintyThe recording of this evidence is considered certain
SourceLibrary catalogue
Other Information
CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2021-09-06 09:58:32