Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino
Series: Italian books before 1601 -- roll 392, item 1
Publisher: Per Nicholo di Lorenzo della Magna
Published: 1481
Place of publication: Impresso in Firenze
Language: ita; lat
Number of pages: 744
Other titles: Commento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra La commedia di Dante Alighieri poeta fiorentino
Work titles: Divina commedia
Notes: 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, 2pi6, a1, aa1, L11-12 blank); pi1-3, ℓ5, ℓℓ5, A1-2 signed 'i', 'ii', 'iii', 'ℓ4', 'v.ℓℓ', 'aaai', 'aaaii' respectively; g3, G1 unsigned.

"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.

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

No restrictions on access copy. Unrestricted online access

Hain-Copinger, 5946*

Proctor, 6120

Goff, D-29

GW 7966

Sander, 2311

BM 15th cent., VI, 628 (IC.27094-96)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1998 ed.), id00029000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2851-2854

Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212

From the library of Charles Carmichael Lacaita, with his bookplate.

In this copy, Landino's prologue to the Paradiso is set up in 48 lines.

With engravings for the first two cantos only.

Capitals added in red; initials added in water-color at the beginning of the three parts of the poem; wash drawings have been added in the spaces preceding cantos 3, 7, 8, 16, 17, 19, 21, 22, 23, 25, 28, 30, 32, and 33 of the Inferno and canto 1 of the Purgatorio and Paradiso; these drawings do not correspond to the originals as described by A.M. Hind, Catalogue of early Italian engravings preserved in the ... British Museum (London, 1910) p. 87-93.

Inserted at front is an ornamental water-color t.p. with medallion port. of Dante at head; mounted on verso is an ink and wash drawing (38.5 x 26.5 cm.) depicting Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise.

Bound in full 19th century straight-grain blue morocco; pink silk lining-leaves; no blanks present.