La Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
La Commedia (Comm: Christophorus Landinus). Add: Marsilius Ficinus: Ad Dantem gratulatio [Latin & Italian]
Title from caption on a1 verso. Imprint from colophon (K5 verso): Fine del comento di Christoforo Landino Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Danthe poeta excellentissimo . Et impresso in Vinegia per Octauiano Scoto da Monza. Adi .xxiii. di Marzo .M.cccc.xxxiiii. Introduction and commentary by Cristophoro Landino. With the addition of Marsilius Ficinus' "Ad Dantem gratulatio," in Latin and Italian. Signatures: a¹⁰ b-z⁸ & ⁸ A-H⁸ I-K⁶. Median folio and super-royal quarto; b7 recto: 64 lines of commentary enclosing text, plus headine, 255 (262) x 173 mm; types: 106R(a), 80R; woodcut initials. Most leaves printed on full sheets of median paper; some leaves in gatherings y, z and & on half-sheets of super-royal paper. See C. Dondi and N. Harris, "Oil and Green Ginger. The Zornale of the Venetian Bookseller Francesco de Madiis, 1484-1488", in Documenting the Early Modern Book World. Inventories and Catalogues in Manuscript and Print, eds M. Walsby and N. Constantinidou, Leiden - Boston, 2013, 341-406 (p. 385). Catalogue of books printed in the XVth century now in the British Museum, V, 279 Goff, F.R. Incunabula in American libraries, D30 Incunabula short title catalogue, id00030000 COPY NOTE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.6 FOLIO pressed and washed, blue pigments faded. Rubricated in red and blue throughout, with woodcut initials illuminated in burnished gold. Half sheets of super-royal paper in three gatherings: y, z, and &. Leaf dimensions: 330 x 225 mm. PROVENANCE: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.6 FOLIO with the armorial bookplate William Constable. Bookplate of the BPL Charlotte Harris Fund. BPL perforation stamp on a1 only, BPL embossed stamp on a1-a3. Early marginalia throughout. Floral penwork border on b1 recto encloses a coat of arms, with colors now faded. Acquired in February, 1903. BINDING: Boston Public Library (Rare Books Department) copy Q.401.6 FOLIO bound in ca. 18th-century mottled calfskin panelled and tooled in gilt. Spine panelled and tooled in gilt. All text block edges gilt.
