Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino.
Dante Alighieri,1265-1321.
Landino, Cristoforo,1424-1504.
Botticelli, Sandro,1444 or 1445-1510,illustrator.
Ficino, Marsilio,1433-1499.
Baldini, Baccio,engraver.
Laurentii, Nicolaus,active 1475-1486,printer.
Steuart, David,1747-1824,associated name.StEdNL
Impresso in Firenze : Per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna,
a di .XXX. dagosto .M. CCCC. LXXXI. [30 August 1481]
Title from incipit on pi2r.
Imprint from colophon (leaf L10v).
Signatures: pi⁸ 2pi⁶; a¹⁰ b⁸ c-e¹⁰ f⁸ g¹⁰ h-i⁸ ℓ¹⁰ m-n⁸ o-r¹⁰ s⁶; aa-gg¹⁰ hh¹² ℓℓ-mm¹⁰ oo⁶; A⁸ B-H¹⁰ I⁶ L¹²; pi1-3, ℓ5, ℓℓ5, A1-2 signed 'i', 'ii', 'iii', 'ℓ4', 'v.ℓℓ', 'aaai', 'aaaii' respectively; g3, G1 unsigned.
Leaves pi1, 2pi6, a1, aa1, L11-12 are blank.
As indicated by a blank space or by an engraving preceding the cantos, a complete series of illustrations must have originally been planned for this edition. Engravings are known only for the first nineteen cantos of the Inferno. Of these, only those for the first three cantos are found impressed on the pages of text (in some instances, the third being a repetition of the second). The remaining engravings, if any or all appear, are found on separate slips of paper pasted in at their respective places.--Goff.
Engravings attributed to Baccio Baldini after designs by Sandro Botticelli.
In some copies, Landino's prologue to the Paradiso (A1r, missigned 'aaa1') is set up in 47 lines, the last beginning "te ciriempie."; in other copies, the prologue is set up in 48 lines, the last beginning "ita: ne da tempo."
In some copies, the last line of commentary on oo6v has the reading "per sua infinita misericordia"; in other copies, the last line has reading "per sua instituta misericordia". Cf. GW for other textual variants.
Initial spaces, with guide-letters.
Includes the commentary of Christoforo Landino and additions by Marsilio Ficino.
With two engravings, pasted to pages 25 and 44.
With manuscript pagination.
With marginal annotations.
Initials supplied in black ink.
Hain-Copinger
Proctor
Goff
GW
Sander
BM 15th cent.,
ISTC
Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books,
Lists of fifteenth century books in Edinburgh libraries,
Hillyard, B. Acquisitions of Incunables by the Advocates Library before 1808,
Ink monogram stamp MD within an oval at foot of recto of pi2. Acquired by the Advocates Library not after 1807. Possibly the copy in David Steuart's 1801 sale (day 1, lot 58) but there is no evidence.
Diced leather with gilt rolled border on front and back boards, board edges and turn-ins, speckled edges, orange pastedowns and endpapers and modern National Library reback.
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Italy Florence.