Proemio
Subtitle: comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino
Publisher: P[er] Bernardino Benali & Matthio da Parma
Published: 1491
Place of publication: Impressi i[n] Venesia
Language: ita
Number of pages: 10
Other titles: Comento di Christophoro Landino fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe Alighieri poeta fiorentino; Canto primo della prima cantica ouero Comedia del diuino poeta fiorentino Danthe Aleghieri
Work titles: Divina commedia
Notes: Title from incipit to the commentary on leaf pi1r.

Imprint from colophon (leaf L7v); for variants, cf. GW.

Edited by Pietro da Figino.

Signatures: pi¹⁰ a-z⁸ &⁸ [con]⁸ [rum]⁸ A⁸ B⁶ C-I⁸ K⁶ L⁸; pi1-5 signed 'I', 'II', 'III', 'IIII', 'V' respectively.

Many errors in foliation.

Full-page woodcut ill. within architectural borders on a1v, s1v (repeated on s2v), and C1r; smaller woodcut ill. preceding each canto.

White-on-black floriated woodcut initials; initial spaces, with guide-letters.

Woodcut printer's device on leaf L8r.

Text surrounded by 61 lines of commentary.

Includes register on leaf L7v.

Includes on leaves L7v-L8r the poems Credo, Pater noster, and Ave Maria wrongly ascribed to Dante.

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Hain, 5949 (var)

Copinger-Reichling, 5949

Proctor, 4877

Goff, D-32

GW, 7969

Sander, 2313

BM 15th cent., V, 373 (IB.22339)

ISTC (CD-ROM, 1997 ed.), id00032000

Walsh, J.E. 15th cent. printed books, 2094-2095.

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

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

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Bequest; Sophia Ingersoll Cruft; 5 December 1873; Dn 14.91.

Gift; Ward M. Canaday; 1965; 54C-358.

Ms. inscription on blank leaf a1r, "W. S. Cruft at Rome 1851."

Booklabel of the Castlecraig Library; from the library of William Walker Drake, with his armorial bookplate; from the library of Adriana R. Salem, with her booklabel.

Imperfect: leaves [1]-[10] at front, XXIII-XXIV, and final leaf wanting.

In this copy leaves CVIII and CXXXVII are correctly numbered.

Without rubrication.

Bound in early 20th-century half brown sheep and marbled boards.

Imperfect: sheet I4.5 (leaves CCLXXIIII-CCLXXV) wanting; a duplicate of sheet s4.5 bound in its place.

Without rubrication.

Bound in 19th-century tan calf, gilt (rebacked), edges gilt.