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mei/02141553 PML 398 [02141553]

New York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum (US) : PML 398

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
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature
Keywordspoetry; commentary; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02141553
Holding InstitutionNew York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum (US)
ShelfmarkPML 398
NoteCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481"
Physical DescriptionEngraving on leaf b1v printed in place; engraving on leaf a1r printed on correct paper and inlaid into existing leaf a1, remainder of plates in state 2, pasted-on (engravings on leaves c7v, d5r, d9v, h8r, and l1r pasted over a worm hole -- i.e. later addition or exchange of plates between copies). Engraving on leaf l8r pasted over a modern facsimile on yellow paper. Engraving on leaf d5r missing about lower third. Many engravings have small sections torn away, perhaps removed from another copy and pasted-in here.
Size of leaves410 × 274 mm
Copy Features - NoteLeaves [2]/1, a1 (not including engraving), o10, and G1-L9 are from another copy (or copies), remargined. Missing leaves: [1]/1, [2]/6, a1, aa1, and LL11-12 (blanks).

Provenance 1481 - 1550

PlaceFlorence? (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1550
Provenance nameAnonymous, 1501-1600, 1501-1600 [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. ee9v
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. F2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. hh8r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. r3v
Manuscript notesA few 15th- / 16th-century Italian marginal notations to the text and the commentary, namely brackets in Inferno, Canto X, and Purgatorio, Canto XVI, "Saetta" (leaf i6r), "Fiorentini ciechi" (leaf l3r), "yhs" (leaves gg10r and aaa/A4r), "L'Ariosto rubo' questo verso" (ee9v), "Guittone" (leaf hh8r), and note on Conte Ugo da Luzimborgo "fondo la badia di Firenze (...) 7 altre" (leaf F2r); contemporary inscription: "Qui manchano versi" (bottom of leaf r3v) indicating missing lines of poem but lines not added (no other missing lines of text in poem identified).
Ms. notes (frequency)A few
Extraction of keywordsYes
CommentsYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1481 -

PlaceAustria? (Geonames ID: 2782113)
Note on provenance placeThe decoration is similar to that found in Austria (Tyrol area?) and Bavaria.
Areae-au
Time period1481 -
Provenance nameAnonymous, 1481- [Person; Illuminator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeDecoration
Link to Provenance ImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Illuminated initial, a1r
Decoration NoteLeaf a1r (from another copy) with contemporary illuminated initial N and foliate border in Austrian or Bavarian style.
IlluminationsYes
Ornamental lettersYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1743 - 1815

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1743 - 1815
Provenance nameWilbraham, Roger, 1743-1829 [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteDibdin (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, pp. 114-115) states that the Spencer copy came from Wilbraham's collection.
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1815 - 1821

PlaceAlthorp (Geonames ID: 7296694)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1815 - 1821
Provenance nameSpencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Lewis, Charles, 1786 - 1836 [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteOn the verso of the first front endleaf: Acquisition no.: 17280 (crossed out) d[uplicate].
Purchased between 1807-1815, but probably closer to 1815 [ex inf. Julianne Simpson]. 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, pp. 114-115, no. 814. Included in 1821 duplicate sale (lot 95) and purchased by the Duke of Buckingham.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding note19th-century English dark blue straight-grained morocco over paper boards (43 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Charles Lewis. Gilt-tooled morocco and maroon painted paper pastedowns, with maroon painted paper and plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusRebound
ToolingGold
EdgesGilt
Decoration NoteIn addition to the new binding, Lewis supplied an illuminated initial (leaf a1r) and a Baldini engraving of Hell (now in Manchester, John Rylands University Library, 17280 ).
IlluminationsYes
Ornamental lettersYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1821 - 1821

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1821 - 1821
Provenance nameEvans, Robert Harding, 1778 - 1857 [Person; Auctioneer] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSpencer duplicate sale, Evans, 2 March 1821, lot 95. It was sold for £52.10.0 to Nell.
Price52.10.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1821 - 1839

PlaceStowe (Geonames ID: 7287954)
Areae-uk
Time period1821 - 1839
Provenance nameTemple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Richard (1776-1839), 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1776 - 1839 [Person; Former Owner]
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1839 - 1849

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1839 - 1849
Provenance nameTemple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1797 – 1861 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteLibrary of Stowe House sale, 8 January 1849, lot 1593 (already with inlaid leaves and engravings).
Method of acquisitionBequest
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1849 - 1884

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1849 - 1884
Provenance nameHamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Unknown, Aristocracy)
Hamilton Palace Library, -1884 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Unknown, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteHamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 4, 1 May 1884, lot 645 (no mention of inlaid leaves but illuminated initial).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price50 liv. 10 sh.
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1884 - 1884

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1884 - 1884
Provenance nameQuaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Quaritch at the Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, for £380.0.0.
Price380.0.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1884 - 1891

PlaceLakelands, Blackrock (Cork) (Geonames ID: 2966132)
Areae-ie
Time period1884 - 1891
Provenance nameCrawford, William Horatio, 1812 - 1888 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteCrawford's bookplate on the front pastedown. His sale (1891).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1891 - 1891

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1891 - 1891
Provenance nameQuaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Quaritch, once again, at Crawford's sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 902) for £360.0.0.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price360.0.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1891 - 1894

PlaceNaples (Geonames ID: 3172394)
Areae-it
Time period1891 - 1894
Provenance nameMaglione, Benedetto, 1841 - 1892 [Person; Former Owner] (Scholar, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSold at Maglione's sale Paris, part I, 27 January 1894, lot 345. A hand-written note on a copy of the catalogue suggests that it was sold for 8000 francs.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1894 - 1903

PlaceSkirling (Geonames ID: 2637696)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1894 - 1903
Provenance nameCarmichael, Thomas David Gibson, 1st Baron Carmichael, 1859-1926 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteCarmichael's armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.
It was sold in 1903 with the rest of his collection (Sotheby's, 23 March 1903, lot 270).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1903 - 1924

PlaceNew York (Geonames ID: 5128581)
Arean-us-ny
Time period1903 - 1924
Provenance nameMorgan, John Pierpont <senior>, 1837 - 1913 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Quaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Morgan, John Pierpont <junior>, 1867-1943 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Morgan from Quaritch, in June 1903.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1924 -

PlaceNew York (Geonames ID: 5128581)
Arean-us-ny
Time period1924 -
Provenance nameNew York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924 - [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
SourceLibrary catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2022-06-06 14:48:40

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  02141553

New York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum (US) : PML 398

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
full ISTC record
SubjectLiterature
Keywordspoetry; commentary; collection
Periodmedieval

Description of Copy

Copy Id02141553
Holding InstitutionNew York NY, The Morgan Library and Museum (US)
ShelfmarkPML 398
NoteCreated by Camilla Marangoni for the Polonsky project "Dante 1481"
Physical DescriptionEngraving on leaf b1v printed in place; engraving on leaf a1r printed on correct paper and inlaid into existing leaf a1, remainder of plates in state 2, pasted-on (engravings on leaves c7v, d5r, d9v, h8r, and l1r pasted over a worm hole -- i.e. later addition or exchange of plates between copies). Engraving on leaf l8r pasted over a modern facsimile on yellow paper. Engraving on leaf d5r missing about lower third. Many engravings have small sections torn away, perhaps removed from another copy and pasted-in here.
Size of leaves410 × 274 mm
Copy Features - NoteLeaves [2]/1, a1 (not including engraving), o10, and G1-L9 are from another copy (or copies), remargined. Missing leaves: [1]/1, [2]/6, a1, aa1, and LL11-12 (blanks).

Provenance 1481 - 1550

PlaceFlorence? (Geonames ID: 3176959)
Areae-it
Time period1481 - 1550
Provenance nameAnonymous, 1501-1600, 1501-1600 [Person; Annotator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeManuscript Notes
Link to Provenance ImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. ee9v
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. F2r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. hh8r
Image in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Marginal annotation, l. r3v
Manuscript notesA few 15th- / 16th-century Italian marginal notations to the text and the commentary, namely brackets in Inferno, Canto X, and Purgatorio, Canto XVI, "Saetta" (leaf i6r), "Fiorentini ciechi" (leaf l3r), "yhs" (leaves gg10r and aaa/A4r), "L'Ariosto rubo' questo verso" (ee9v), "Guittone" (leaf hh8r), and note on Conte Ugo da Luzimborgo "fondo la badia di Firenze (...) 7 altre" (leaf F2r); contemporary inscription: "Qui manchano versi" (bottom of leaf r3v) indicating missing lines of poem but lines not added (no other missing lines of text in poem identified).
Ms. notes (frequency)A few
Extraction of keywordsYes
CommentsYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1481 -

PlaceAustria? (Geonames ID: 2782113)
Note on provenance placeThe decoration is similar to that found in Austria (Tyrol area?) and Bavaria.
Areae-au
Time period1481 -
Provenance nameAnonymous, 1481- [Person; Illuminator] (Unknown, Unknown, Unknown)
Provenance TypeDecoration
Link to Provenance ImageImage in CERL Provenance Digital Archive Illuminated initial, a1r
Decoration NoteLeaf a1r (from another copy) with contemporary illuminated initial N and foliate border in Austrian or Bavarian style.
IlluminationsYes
Ornamental lettersYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1743 - 1815

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1743 - 1815
Provenance nameWilbraham, Roger, 1743-1829 [Person; Former Owner] (Unknown)
Provenance TypeBibliographic Evidence
NoteDibdin (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, pp. 114-115) states that the Spencer copy came from Wilbraham's collection.
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1815 - 1821

PlaceAlthorp (Geonames ID: 7296694)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1815 - 1821
Provenance nameSpencer, George John, 2nd Earl Spencer, 1758-1834 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Lewis, Charles, 1786 - 1836 [Person; Binder] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteOn the verso of the first front endleaf: Acquisition no.: 17280 (crossed out) d[uplicate].
Purchased between 1807-1815, but probably closer to 1815 [ex inf. Julianne Simpson]. 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, pp. 114-115, no. 814. Included in 1821 duplicate sale (lot 95) and purchased by the Duke of Buckingham.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Binding note19th-century English dark blue straight-grained morocco over paper boards (43 x 29 cm), sewn on 6 supports by Charles Lewis. Gilt-tooled morocco and maroon painted paper pastedowns, with maroon painted paper and plain paper endleaves; plain endbands; gilt edges.
Binding date19th cent.
Binding typeBoards
Board materialPaper
Cover materialLeather
Binding statusRebound
ToolingGold
EdgesGilt
Decoration NoteIn addition to the new binding, Lewis supplied an illuminated initial (leaf a1r) and a Baldini engraving of Hell (now in Manchester, John Rylands University Library, 17280 ).
IlluminationsYes
Ornamental lettersYes
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1821 - 1821

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk-en
Time period1821 - 1821
Provenance nameEvans, Robert Harding, 1778 - 1857 [Person; Auctioneer] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSpencer duplicate sale, Evans, 2 March 1821, lot 95. It was sold for £52.10.0 to Nell.
Price52.10.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1821 - 1839

PlaceStowe (Geonames ID: 7287954)
Areae-uk
Time period1821 - 1839
Provenance nameTemple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Richard (1776-1839), 1st Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1776 - 1839 [Person; Former Owner]
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1839 - 1849

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1839 - 1849
Provenance nameTemple-Nugent-Brydges-Chandos-Grenville, Richard, 2nd Duke of Buckingham and Chandos, 1797 – 1861 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteLibrary of Stowe House sale, 8 January 1849, lot 1593 (already with inlaid leaves and engravings).
Method of acquisitionBequest
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1849 - 1884

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1849 - 1884
Provenance nameHamilton, Alexander Hamilton Douglas, Duke of, 1767-1852 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Unknown, Aristocracy)
Hamilton Palace Library, -1884 [Corporate body; Former Owner] (Unknown, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteHamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, Sotheby's, part 4, 1 May 1884, lot 645 (no mention of inlaid leaves but illuminated initial).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price50 liv. 10 sh.
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1884 - 1884

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1884 - 1884
Provenance nameQuaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Quaritch at the Hamilton Palace Library and Beckford Library sale, for £380.0.0.
Price380.0.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1884 - 1891

PlaceLakelands, Blackrock (Cork) (Geonames ID: 2966132)
Areae-ie
Time period1884 - 1891
Provenance nameCrawford, William Horatio, 1812 - 1888 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteCrawford's bookplate on the front pastedown. His sale (1891).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1891 - 1891

PlaceLondon (Geonames ID: 2643743)
Areae-uk
Time period1891 - 1891
Provenance nameQuaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Quaritch, once again, at Crawford's sale (Sotheby's, 12 March 1891, lot 902) for £360.0.0.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
Price360.0.0 £
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1891 - 1894

PlaceNaples (Geonames ID: 3172394)
Areae-it
Time period1891 - 1894
Provenance nameMaglione, Benedetto, 1841 - 1892 [Person; Former Owner] (Scholar, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NoteSold at Maglione's sale Paris, part I, 27 January 1894, lot 345. A hand-written note on a copy of the catalogue suggests that it was sold for 8000 francs.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1894 - 1903

PlaceSkirling (Geonames ID: 2637696)
Areae-uk-st
Time period1894 - 1903
Provenance nameCarmichael, Thomas David Gibson, 1st Baron Carmichael, 1859-1926 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Politician, Aristocracy)
Provenance TypeExlibris
NoteCarmichael's armorial bookplate on the front pastedown.
It was sold in 1903 with the rest of his collection (Sotheby's, 23 March 1903, lot 270).
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1903 - 1924

PlaceNew York (Geonames ID: 5128581)
Arean-us-ny
Time period1903 - 1924
Provenance nameMorgan, John Pierpont <senior>, 1837 - 1913 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Quaritch, Bernard, 1819 - 1899 [Person; Bookseller] (Male, Booktrade, No characterisation/lay)
Morgan, John Pierpont <junior>, 1867-1943 [Person; Former Owner] (Male, Business, No characterisation/lay)
Provenance TypeDocumentary Evidence
NotePurchased by Morgan from Quaritch, in June 1903.
Method of acquisitionPurchase
SourceBibliography

Provenance 1924 -

PlaceNew York (Geonames ID: 5128581)
Arean-us-ny
Time period1924 -
Provenance nameNew York, Pierpont Morgan Library, 1924 - [Corporate body; Present Owner] (Library, No characterisation/lay)
SourceLibrary catalogue

Other Information

CompletenessThe enumeration of provenance evidence is considered incomplete
Last Edit2022-06-06 14:48:40