Divina commedia

Collection Data

Names
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321 (Author)
Dates / Origin
Date Issued: 1481-08-30
Place: Florence
Publisher: Niccolò di Lorenzo
Library locations
Spencer Collection
Shelf locator: Spencer Coll. Ital. 1481
Topics
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia
Genres
Prints
Poetry
Notes
Citation/reference: Hain (*)5946. dyson Perrins 23.
Content: Roman type (Proctor 6120); 60 lines.
Conservation history: First florentine edition of Dante and the first of Landino's collated text and commentary.
Content: Illustrations: 19 small copperplate engravings, the first two printed, the others pasted on the leaves. Large initial N, and other illuminations at top and side of sig. aa; small colored initials. "Engravings were executed for the first eighteen cantos of the Inferno, blank spaces being left for them, and the sheets at first being passed through the press a second time to receive the impression of the plates. In some copies, however, no engravings have been inserted, in others only two, while a complete set of eighteen is extremely rare. The difficulties of the double impression may have been the cause of the abandonment of the plan, as in most copies only the first two plates are printed in their places, the later ones being pasted in. It used to be thought that the plates were engraved by Baccio Baldini from the designs of Botticelli, but the discovery of the real Botticelli designs in the Duke of Hamilton's manuscript, now at Berlin, shows that these plates are only versions of excerpts from them, and there is no sound reason for attributing them to Baldini."--Morgan 398. For an account of the Botticelli connection, a list and description of the plates, and a bibliography, see: A. M. Hind, Catalogue of early Italian engravings...in the British Museum, London, 1910, p. 83-94; see also, in this list, Bettini, Monte Sancto di Dio, Florence, 1477.
Physical Description
Woodcuts
Extent: 370 1.illus.f̕.
Signatures: i-iii(12), a(10), b(8), c-e(10), f(3), g(10), h-i(8), l(10), m-n(8), o-r(10), s(6), aa-gg(10), hh(12), ll-mm(10), oo(6), a[and A](8), B-H(10), I(6), L(18); including 4 blank leaves.
Binding, by Sangorski and Sutcliffe, 1923?, of dark brown morocco. Sides within four fillets, blind, with small floreated conventional ornament in each corner within the third and fourth fillets. Doublé with watered paper in a wing design of rose, yellow, gray, green and blue. Edges gilt. Back with five bands, lettered.
Roman type (Proctor 6120); 60 lines.
Type of Resource
Text
Still image
Identifiers
RLIN/OCLC: 131749889
NYPL catalog ID (B-number): b16832091
Universal Unique Identifier (UUID): f54de1a0-c616-012f-819d-58d385a7bc34
Show filters Hide filters
Filtering on:
x Name: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)

No results found matching your filter for 'Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)'. Try another filter or search by keyword.