Su concession della British Library di Londra edizione in facsimile del Add. Ms. 19587 La divina commedia secolo XIV : conservato presso la British Library.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321, author.

Contributor:

Forte, Alessandra, editor.

British Library.

Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

Imago la Nobiltà del Facsimile, publisher.

Standardized Title:

Divina commedia

Language:

Italian

Latin

Subjects (All):

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Manuscripts--Facsimiles.

Dante Alighieri.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321. Divina commedia--Illustrations.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic--Italy--14th century.

Illumination of books and manuscripts, Gothic.

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.

Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri).

Italy.

Genre:

Facsimiles.

Illustrated works.

Manuscripts.

Physical Description:

1 volume ([354] pages) : color illustrations ; 39 cm + commentary (62 pages : color illustrations ; 30 cm)

Other Title:

Edizione in facsimile del Add. Ms. 19587 La divina commedia secolo XIV : conservato presso la British Library

Add. Ms. 19587 La divina commedia secolo XIV : conservato presso la British Library

Place of Publication:

Rimini : Imago la Nobiltà del Facsimile, 2022.

Language Note:

Italian text with Latin rubrics.

Summary:

Full-color, full size facsimile reproduction of Manuscript Additional 19587 held at the British Library. The manuscript is a fourteenth-century (approximately 1370) codex written and illustrated in southern Italy containing Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy. On folio 177v a later hand has added entries of births and deaths of the Monforte family, Counts of Biseglia (Naples), between 1449 and 1483.

Contents:

Edizione in facsimile del Add. Ms. 19587 La divina commedia secolo XIV

La commedia Ms. Additional 19587 : British Library, Londra / a cura di Alessandra Forte.

Notes:

Title from publisher's statement affixed to back pastedown.

Limited edition of 300 copies, 250 numbered in Arabic numerals and 50 numbered in Roman numerals. See publisher's sheet affixed to back pastedown.

One historiated initial with full border with foliate and heraldic (azure, a bend argent, impaling quarterly, azure and argent, four stars counterchanged) decoration (folio 61). Forty-eight bas-de-page colored ink drawings, some with gold, at the beginning of each canto (folios 2, 3 ,4 ,8 ,9v, 11, 21, 22v, 24v, 26, 28, 29v, 31v, 33, 35, 36v, 38, 40, 42, 44, 45v, 47v, 49, 51, 52v, 54v, 56, 58, 60, 61, 62, 63, 64, 66v, 68, 69v, 73, 77*, 77, 80v, 83, 85, 86v, 88, 89v, 92, 94, 96, 97v); unfinished ink drawings on folios 100v, 102v, 104, 106, 107v, 110, 111v, 113v, 115, 117). Large initials in gold on blue grounds with white and red penwork decoration. Rubrics in red. No decoration in the Paradiso text (folios 119-177).

Includes bibliographical references (commentary, pages 55-62).

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy purchased for the Penn Libraries in 2022 from Facsimile Finder.

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Edward W. Lanius Book Fund.

OCLC:

1352887437