Bod-Inc: D-008
Dante Alighieri
La Commedia.
Analysis of Content
a2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. See D‑007.
Imprint
Imprint: Naples: [Printer of Dante], 12 Apr. 1477. Folio.
Remarks: On this edition see Mambelli, 12-13, no. 6, and Manfrè, I 83-5.
Collation
Collation: a–h I l–z8 aa–ee8 ff6 gg8. a1 is unsigned; a2 signed ai.
References
ISTC: id00025000
GW: GW 7961;
Hain: HR 5941;
Goff: Goff D‑25;
Proctor: Pr 6717;
Others: Fava–Bresciano 195; Sheppard 5453.
LCN: 14818351
Copies
Copy number: D-008(1)
Wanting a2, l1 (both supplied in manuscript) and sheet o2.7. Wanting the blank leaves [a1] and gg8.
Gathering a, sheet b1, gatherings c and d, sheets e1, 2, y3, z2, 3, 4 are 4°, the rest folio.
Binding: Early nineteenth-century(?) English gold- and blind-tooled russia; marbled pastedowns.
Size: 261 × 190 × 38 mm.
Size of leaf: 245 × 169 mm.
Manuscript note by J. Lacaita, dated 13 Apr. 1872.
Provenance: Octavius Gilchrist (1779-1823); sale (Evans, 5 Jan. 1824), lot 407; according to a note pasted into the front of the volume the item was sold for £32. 0. 6. Richard Heber (1773-1833); stamp; see Catalogue, 2 (1834), lot 1762, sold to Rodd for £11. 15. 0. George Frederick Nott (1767-1841); sale (11 Jan. 1842), lot 1941. Purchased for £15. 15. 0; see Books Purchased (1842), 2.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q inf. 2.45.
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