COLLECTION NAME:
Dante Collection
Record
Image Number:
JRL0920951dc
Reference Number:
Incunable 9383
Link to Catalogue:
Image Title:
3.1.1-3.1.75
Parent Work Title:
Qui comi[n]cia la vita e costumi dello excelle[n]te poeta vulgari Dante alighieri di firenze honore e gloria delidioma fiorentino
Alternative Parent Work Title:
La commedia
Alternative Parent Work Title:
Divina commedia
Translated Parent Work Title:
Divine Comedy
Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Creator Role:
Author
Creator:
Berardi, Cristoforo
Creator Role:
Editor
Creator:
Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
Creator Role:
Commentator
Creator:
Lana, Jacopo della, active 14th century
Creator Role:
Commentator
Creator:
Wendelin, of Speier, -1477?
Creator Role:
Printer
Display Creator:
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Date Created:
1477
Publication Details:
Venice: Vindelinus de Spira
Page/Sheet:
229r
Image Sequence Number:
229r
Description:
First edition of the Divine Comedy with a Commentator; in the text the Commentator is erroneously credited to Benvenuto d'Imola. The Commentator includes Boccaccio's "Life of Dante", published here for the first time. A chapter from Iacopo da Dante is included in the additional historical material. The 'Rubriche di Dante' appear for the first time in this edition. They comprise a list of the first three or four words of each canto; the number of the canto; and a summary of its contents. They are found at the start of each cantica (Inferno, Purgatorio, Paradiso), and the relevant material is then repeated at the head of each canto. Set in a miniature gothic type. Illuminated initial 'L' with a decorative left-hand margin in blue, red and black ink. Incipit: Canto primo della seconda parte della commedia di Dante allighieri di Firenze chiamato paradisa nella quale tratta de beati e della celestiale gloria e de meriti e de premii de sancti. Et dividesi in nove parti si come l'inferno'. Double column layout with the title of the cantica in the upper margin. The first canto begins at the middle of the first column. Folio signature in the lower margin.
Language:
ita
Subject:
Divina commedia (Dante Alighieri)
Subject:
Literature, Medieval
Subject:
Epic poetry, Italian--Early works to 1800
Subject:
Italian literature--15th century
Subject:
Hell in literature
Subject:
Christianity
Subject:
Paradise in literature
Category of Material:
Printed
Sub-Category:
Incunabula
Technique Used:
Illumination (image-making process)
Support:
Paper
Item Height:
346 mm
Item Width:
244 mm
Provenance:
George John Spencer Spencer Earl, 1758-1834, former owner
Rights Holder - Image:
The University of Manchester Library
Rights Holder - Work:
The University of Manchester Library
Access Rights:
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International License. Copyright of The University of Manchester
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