Le terze rime di Dante.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Contributor:

Manuzio, Aldo, 1449 or 1450-1515, printer.

Early Venetian Imprint Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Italian Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Culture Class Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Penn Provenance:

Valperga di Masino e di Caluso Library (bookplate) (shelf label) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Alfieri, Cesare (autograph) (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Hudson, G. (inscription) (Culture Class Collection copy)

Physical Description:

244 unnumbered leaves ; 17 cm (8vo)

Other Title:

Inferno e 'l Pvrgatorio e 'l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri

Fingerprint:

o.a, a;e; o.e: ChMi (3) 1502 (R)

Place of Publication:

Venetiis : In aedib[us] Aldi Accuratissime, men[se] aug[usti] MDII [1502]

Notes:

Imprint from colophon on recto of last leaf.

First small format edtion of Dante, all earlier editions in folio. Cf. Renouard.

First of the two impressions of the edition printed by Aldus in 1502; lacks Aldine printer's mark on verso of H4, which will be used for the first time in the second impression of this edition.

First letter of "aedibus" is an upside down "V" instead of an "A". Cf. Adams.

Signatures: a-z⁸ A-G⁸ H⁴ (leaf lii blank, xiii verso blank).

On verso of title page: Lo'nferno e'l Pvrgatorio e'l Paradiso di Dante Alaghieri.

Italic type, with first letter of every third line in larger Roman type.

Local Notes:

Culture Class Collection copy bound in one-quarter brown leather; author, title and date stamped in gold on spine; three raised bands on spine.

Culture Class Collection copy has the bookplate and shelf label of Valperga di Masino e di Caluso Library on front pastedown.

Culture Class Collection copy has ms. inscription: "Al molto onorando signor G. Hudson. Cesare Alfieri. Torino. 6 di giugno 1854."

Culture Class Collection copy imperfect: title page wanting.

Cited in:

Renouard, A.A. Annales de l'imprimerie des Alde, p. 34, no. 5

BM STC Italian, 1465-1600, p. 209

Brunet, J.-C. Manuel du libraire, II, 500-501

Olschki, L.S. Le livre en Italien, no. 37

Isaac, F. Index to the early printed books in BM, 12779

Adams D83

EDIT 16 CNCE 1144

OCLC:

44506404