Bod-Inc: D-012
Dante Alighieri
La Commedia (comm. Christophorus Landinus).
Analysis of Content
[*2r] Landinus, Christophorus: Proemio. Landino, Scritti critici, I 100-53; Cristoforo Landino, Comento sopra la Comedia, ed. Paolo Procaccioli, 4 vols, Edizione Nazionale dei Commenti Danteschi (Rome, 2001), I 219- 68, I 169-73 on this edition; also Francesco La Brasca, ‘L'humanisme vulgaire et la genèse de la critique littéraire italienne: ètude descriptive du commentaire dantesque de Cristoforo Landino', Croniques Italiennes, UFR d'Italien et de Roumain de l'Université de Paris III, 6 (1986), 5-96; no. 81.
[a3v] Ficinus, Marsilius: [Ad Dantem congratulatio. Latin.] Ficino, Opera omnia (Turin, 1962), I 840; Landino, Scritti critici, I 153-4; ed. Procaccioli I 268-9.
[a4r] Ficinus, Marsilius: [Ad Dantem congratulatio. Italian.] Probably translated by Landino according to Cardini; Procaccioli suggests instead Ficinus himself. Landino, Scritti critici, I 154-5; ed. Procaccioli I 269-70; I 114-18 on the translation.
[a4r] [Landinus, Christophorus]: ‘Sito, forma et misura dello'nferno et statura de giganti et di Lucifero'.’ Landino, Scritti critici, I 155-64; ed. Procaccioli I 270-78.
a2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [First part.] See D‑007.
a2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the first part.] Incipit: ‘[H]abbiamo narrato non solamente la vita del poeta . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli I 281 - II 1029.
aa1r Landinus, Christophorus: ‘Prologo . . . sopra el purgatorio'.’ Incipit: ‘[D]ilecta mi et sommamente mi dilecta I. S. N., esser in parte dell'opera . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli III 1033-36.
aa2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [Second part.]
aa2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the second part.] Incipit: ‘[B]ene instituto et erudito nell' arte poetica . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli III 1036-1555.
aaa1r Landinus, Christophorus: ‘Prologo . . . sopra el paradiso'.’ Incipit: ‘ “[T]e deum laudamus, te dominum confitemur”. Se Cicerone tanto philosopho . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli IV 1559-1562.
aaa2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [Third part.]
aaa2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the third part.] Incipit: ‘[P]erche chome habbiamo dimostro(!) . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli IV 1563-2029.
Imprint
Imprint: Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481. Folio.
Collation
Collation:
[*8 a6] 2a10 b8 c–e10 f8 g10 h i8 l10 m n8 o–r10 s6 aa–gg10 hh12 ll mm10 oo6
Remarks: Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed.
Illustrations: Copper engravings. For an extensive note on the illustrations intended for this edition see GW; also Emanuele Casamassima, La prima edizione della Divina Commedia Foligno, 1471 (Milan, 1972), and Lamberto Donati, Il Botticelli e le prime illustrazioni della Divina Commedia (Florence, 1962).
References
ISTC: id00029000
GW: GW 7966;
Hain: HC *5946;
Goff: Goff D‑29;
BMC: BMC VI 628;
Proctor: Pr 6120;
Others: BSB‑Ink D‑9; Mambelli, 17-22, no. 10; Oates 2334; Rhodes 651; Sander 2311; Sheppard 5061.
LCN: 14818367
Copies
Copy number: D-012(1)
Wanting the blank leaves [*1], [a6], aa1, L11, and L12.
Engravings before cantos 1-3 of the ‘Inferno' only, that before canto 1 being slightly cropped; the engraving before canto 3 is a repetition of the one belonging to canto 2, printed upside down and obliquely. Line 54 on2 oo6v reads ‘ . . . per sua instituta misericordia . . . | FINISCE LA SECONDA CANTI | CA'; line 48 on aaa1r reads ‘ . . . finalmen | te'.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns, stamped on both covers with the arms of Foscarini: quarterly, 1 and 4, three fleur-de-lis, 2 and 3, seven lozenges in bend; on chief, lion of St Mark.
Size: 420 × 295 × 75 mm.
Size of leaf: 410 × 274 mm.
Provenance: Foscarini familiy. Purchased for £12. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1803), 5.
SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.11.
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