[La Commedia : (Italian) / commentary by Cristophoro Landino ; edited by Pietro da Figino].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Landino, Cristoforo, 1424-1504.

Pietro, da Figino, active 15th century.

Quarengi, Pietro, active 1492-1514, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Incunabula.

Manuscript waste (Binding)

Physical Description:

12 unnumbered leaves, III-CCXCVII leaves, 1 unnumbered leaf : illustrations ; 31 cm (folio)

Other Title:

Danthe alighieri fiorentino

Fingerprint:

elo- isx- n-ol soti (3) 1497 (R)

Place of Publication:

Impressa in Venetia : Per Piero de Zuanne di Quarengii ..., Del M.CCCC.LXXXXVII. Adi. XI. octubrio [11 Oct. 1497]

Notes:

Title and statement of responsibility from Goff.

Imprint from colophon on leaf N5r, which reads: Fine del comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Da[n]the poeta excellentissimo reuista & emendata dilige[n]teme[n]te per el reuere[n]do maestro Piero da Figino maestro in theologia & excellente predicatore del ordine de minori & ha posto molte cose in diuersi luoghi che ha trouato ma[n]cate si i[n] lo texto come nella giosa. Impressa in Venetia per Piero de zuanne di quarengii da palazago bergamasco. Del M.CCCC.LXXXXVII. Adi. XI. octubrio.

Chancery folio, text surrounded by commentary. Leaf [superscript pi]a2r: 62 lines; area of text: 249 x 173 mm. (GW gives: 46 bzw 61 Z.) Initial spaces with guide letters. Headline and printed marginalia. With signatures and foliation; without catchwords. Register on leaf N6r.

Woodcuts: 1 full-page illustration on leaf a1v of Dante (in three different attitudes) wandering in the wood, with Virgil in the foreground and the three wild beasts at right, the whole within an elaborate architectural border (including a representation of God the Father in the tympanum); text of leaf b1r within 4-part ornamental border; 99 smaller square vignettes, each at the head of the canto it illustrates; initials throughout text. Cf. Sander, Essling.

Signatures: [superscript pi]a¹⁰ a-z⁸ &⁸ A-K⁸ L-M¹⁰ N⁶.

"A reprint of Capcasa's 1493 Commedia (GW 7971). The Toulouse copy given as a variant of the present edition (Pell 4119A) was apparently merely perfected with fols 11-12 (numbered I-II) of GW 7971"--ISTC.

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 297 x 205 mm.

Penn Libraries copy: rubrication: initials supplied in red or blue ink; woodcut border and initials on leaf b1r hand-colored in red, yellow, blue and green and illuminated.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations and a few underlines, marks and manicules (in more than one hand?) in brown ink in text; early Latin ms. inscription ("Paulus ad romanos voluntatj dei nemo restitit. Tu quis es o homo, qui audes respondere deo?") in brown ink on leaf N6v; partially illegible dated 16th-century Italian ms. inscription ("+ Jh[esu]s Adi j7 dj Marzo 1548. Ricordo comme oggi guesto dj so[per]a io feci celebrare uno officio di mortj di messe otto[?] nella chiesa di santa franc[isc]o darezzo et dedj aifrati[?] d[...]a chiesia cioe afrate felice et alguardiano e doj cose[?] Per lanimma dj mio padre") in brown ink on leaf N6v.

Penn Libraries copy has eighteenth-century ms. ownership inscription ("ad uso d'Angel Lorenzo Grazini Aretino, Capellano di Murello, Maestro nel Seminario; e Reuore dela Parrocchia di S. Niccolò [added in another hand: d'Arezzo]") of Angelo Lorenzo Grazini of Arezzo in brown ink on leaf [superscript pi]a1r.

Penn Libraries copy bound in full modern beige cloth; gold-stamped black leather spine label ("DANTE DIVINA COMEDIA VENICE 1497"); small piece of early parchment ms. waste bound in between leaves N2 and N3.

Penn Libraries copy imperfect: leaf a1 wanting.

Penn Libraries copy: leaves M1 and M10 bound in out of order in each other's place.

Penn Libraries copy: leaf [superscript pi]a1 mended at fore-edge; leaves cropped at fore-edge margin with occasional damage to ms. marginalia; many leaves dampstained at head margin and some at tail margin.

Cited in:

Goff D-35

BM 15th cent. V, p. 513 (IB.24171)

GW 7972

BN cat. des incun. D-18

BSB-Ink. D-11

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2492

ISTC id00035000

Sander, M. Livre à figures italien depuis 1467 jusqu'à 1530, 2316

Essling, V.M. Bibliographie des livres à figures vénitiens, 534

OCLC:

249340133