Convivio / diDante Alighieri Fiorentino.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Buonaccorsi, Francesco, active 1485-1497, printer.

Incunable Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Convivio

Language:

Italian

Genre:

Incunabula.

Penn Provenance:

Macauley Library (bookplate)

Physical Description:

90 unnumbered leaves ; 21 cm (4to)

Fingerprint:

hooa e.no leel dide (C) 1490 (T)

Place of Publication:

Impresso in Firenze : Per ser Francesco Bonaccorsi, Nel anno mille quattrocento nouanta adi. xx. di septembre [20 Sept. 1490]

Notes:

Title from caption on leaf a1r.

Imprint from colophon on leaf l10r.

Chancery quarto. Leaf a2v: 39 lines; area of text: 152 x 83 mm. Initial spaces with guide letters. With signatures; without foliation or catchwords.

Signatures: a-k⁸ l¹⁰.

Leaf f2 unsigned; leaf f8 signed "f ii".

Local Notes:

Leaf size: 197 x 137 mm.

Penn Libraries copy without rubrication.

Penn Libraries copy has some early ms. annotations, marginal marks and manicules in brown ink in text (a bookseller's note in pencil on leaf preceding title leaf attributes the annotations to Luigi Pulci); leaves a1r-l10r each has ms. foliation ("1"-"90") in brown ink; ms. bookseller's note in French in brown ink on leaf preceding title leaf; ms. bibliographical note ("Collated, perfect, JR Knox. Nov. 19/86.") in pencil on back free endpaper.

Penn Libraries copy bound in half leather over marbled boards; 4 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; author's forename and title stamped in gold on spine; monogram ("CG" beneath a crown stamped in gold on spine; imprint date ("1490") stamped in gold at foot of spine; gilt tops; marbled endpapers (front free endpaper detached); pink silk marker laid in.

Cited in:

Goff D-36

BM 15th cent. VI, p. 673 (IA.27611, IA.27611a)

GW 7973

BSB-Ink. D-12

BN cat. des incun. D-19

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2972, 2973

ISTC id00036000

OCLC:

249340147