La comedia di Dante Aldighieri excelso poeta firentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Nidobeato, Martino Paolo, 1432-1483.

Lana, Jacopo della, active 14th century.

Pedemontani, Ludovicus, printer.

Pedemontani, Albertus, printer.

Terzagus, Guido, publisher.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Servites (stamp)

Convento di S. Maria dei Servi di Bologna (stamp)

Sunderland Library (former owner) (inscription)

Marlborough, George Charles Spencer-Churchill, Duke of, 1844-1892 (former owner)

Macauley, Francis Campbell (donor)

Macauley Library (bookplate)

Physical Description:

250 unnumbered leaves (leaf [6] blank) ; 41 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Goff title: La commedia (Italian) : comm. Martino Paolo Nidobeato

Caption (leaf [a]1r): Diuo Guilielmo Marchoni Montisferrati, militiae supremo duci, sacri Romani imperii principi uicarioque perpetuo, Martinus Paulus Nidobeatus Nouariensis P.F.D.

Fingerprint:

imem nara teur drgo (C) 1477 (R) v.1

e.na irSi beuo rehe (C) 1477 (R) v.2

raFu i.co paio prsu (C) 1478 (R) v.3

Place of Publication:

[Milan] : [Ludovicus and Albertus Pedemontani]: [For Guido Terzagus], [1477-1478]

Notes:

Commentary by Jacopo della Lana and Martino Paolo Nidobeato. Edited by Martino Paolo Nidobeato and Guido Terzagus. Also includes several short religious poems in Italian terza rima attributed to Dante: Il credo, Li septe sagramente, Li dieci comandamenti, Septe peccati mortali, Lo pater nostro and Ave Maria.

Title from incipit of Inferno (leaf [b]1r), which reads: Al nome di dio. Comincia la comedia di Dante aldighieri excelso poeta firentino cantica prima appellata inferno. Canto primo nel quale si prohemiza atuta lopra.

Place of printing and printers' names from colophon on leaf ³[n]7v, which reads: Ciua. Bo. Ma. cum dulci nato. Io. Gz. ducibus feliciss. ligurie ualida pace regnantibus. operi egregio manum supremam. Lud. & Alber. pedemontani amico Ioue imposuerunt. Medionali urbe illustri. Anno gratie. MCCCCLXXVIII. V. Id. F. .MP. N.N. cum. Gu. T. fa. cu. ("The letters following the date of the third colophon stand for: Martinus Paulus Nidobeatus Nouaviensis cum Guidone Terzago faciendum curavit."--BM 15th cent., VI, p. 738.)

"GW suggests that the Guido Terzago mentioned in the editor's foreword is the publisher."--Walsh. Cf. leaf [a]1r, lines 23-24, which read: Sed Guido terzago nobili insubri summo ingenio ac diligentia uiro persuasi. uti per idoneos homine negocium conficeret.

"In three parts, dated: I) 27 Sept. 1477; II) 22 Nov. 1477; III) 9 Feb. 1478. Part I with prefatory letter of 1 Mar. 1478"--ISTC.

Explicit of Inferno on leaf [l]5v reads: Finita al nome di dio la prima cantical del glorioso poeta firentino Danti aldigeri la quale e chiamata inferno e contiene capitoli. xxxiiii. adi xxvii. septembre. Mcccclxxvii. in la citta inclvta di milano.

Explicit of Purgatorio on leaf ²[k]10r reads: Finita al nome di dio la seconda cantica dela comedia di Danti aldigeri excelso poeta Firentino appellata Purgatorio la quale contiene capitoli. xxxiii. adi. xxii. nouembre. Mcccclxxvii in la citta inclita di Melano Deo Laudes.

Colophon on leaf ³[n]4r reads: Mediolani. Finis .MCCCCLXXVlll.

Royal folio, with text surrounded by commentary. Leaf b1r: 66 lines of commentary; area of text: 273 x 181 mm. Initial spaces, most with guide letters; spaces for paragraph marks. Without signatures, foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: [a]⁶ [b]¹⁰ [c]-[e]⁸ [f]-[g]⁶ [h]-[k]⁸ [l]⁶, ²[a]⁴ [b]-[c]⁸ [d]-[e]⁶ [f]-[i]⁸ [k]¹⁰, ³[a]-[f]⁸ [g]-[h]⁶ [i]⁸ [k]-[m]⁶ [n]⁸ (leaf [a]6 blank).

Caption on leaf [a]2r reads: Al nome di dio. Apparato sopra la comedia di Danti aldigeri excelso poeta fiorentino.

Caption on leaf ²[a]1v reads: Al nome di dio. apparato sopra la seconda cantica dela comedia di Danti aldigeri excelso poeta firentino. Appellata purgatorio.

Caption on leaf ³[a]1r reads: Al nome di dio. Apparato sopra la terza et ultima parte dela comedia di Danti excelso poeta firentino appellata paradiso.

Leaf [b]3r, line 25 of text ends: elegge. A variant reads: elege.

BM 15th cent. XII, p. 52, records "a completely different setting up of type" on leaf [b]4 in one of its copies vis-a-vis the other two, but does not provide details.

Local Notes:

Penn Libraries copy: leaf [b]3r, line 25 of text ends: elegge.

Leaf size: 387 x 268 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: large colored initials (some with red and/or blue penwork extensions) on leaves [a]1r, [a]2r, [a]2v, [a]3r, [a]3v, [b]1r, ²[b]1r and ³[a]1r; other initials supplied in red or blue ink.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations and manicules in brown ink in text; ms. shelf-mark ("B1:23") in brown ink on verso of front free endpaper; a few modern ms. bibliographical references in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; ms. sketch of a man's head in brown ink on leaf ³[n]8v; ms. foliation of leaves [b]1-²[c]1 ("1"-"89").

Penn Libraries copy has ms. inscription ("Sunderland Sale No 3689 £98.") in pencil recording the sale of this copy for £98 in April 1882; it was formerly part of the Sunderland Library of Blenheim Palace, residence of the Dukes of Marlborough. The library was established by Charles Spencer, 3rd Earl of Sunderland (1674-1722); his successors continued to add to the collection until it was sold by George Spencer-Churchill, 8th Duke of Marlborough (1844-1892). Cf. Bibliotheca Sunderlandiana (London: G. Norman and Son, 1881-1883), no. 3689.

Penn Libraries copy has monogram stamp ("C M F", the first letter above the next two) at foot of leaf [a]1r, [b]1r and [b]2r and on head edge and tail edge; early ms. drawing of a green wreath bound with red ribbons surrounding a blue field on which probably appeared the arms of a previous owner on a red polygon, now effaced, at foot of leaf [a]1r; early ms. drawing of a green wreath surrounding a red field on which probably appeared the arms of a previous owner, now excised, at foot of leaf [b]1r.

Penn Libraries copy has stamp at foot of leaf [a]1r with intertwined initials "S M" beneath a crown surrounded by the initials "F C S B", of the Servite Order in Bologna, Italy, from the Convento di S. Maria dei Servi di Bologna (Conventus Fratrum Servorum Bononia).

Penn Libraries copy bound in full red morocco; boards tooled in gold; hinge of left board mended; 7 raised, blind-tooled bands on spine; blind-tooled spine panels; author's name ("DANTE") and place and date of imprint ("MEDIOLANI 1478") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges red.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to ms. marginalia; tear in fore-edge margin of leaf [i]5; tear in tail margin of leaf ²[i]7; intermittent dampstaining of leaves in head and tail margins; stain on upper portion of leaves ²[d]2-²[d]5.

Penn Libraries copy has a few wormholes in leaves at beginning of volume; leaves at end of volume lightly wormed.

Cited in:

Goff D-28

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 738 (IC.26314, IC.26315)

BM 15th cent. XII, p. 52 (IC.26313)

GW 7965

BN cat. des incun. D-11

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 3090

ISTC id00028000

OCLC:

249340092