Harvard University, MS Ital 54

Metadata

DS ID:

DS10581

Shelfmark:

MS Ital 54

Title:

Comincia la prima parte della cantica onero co[m]media chiamata i[n]ferno del chiarissimo poeta Dante Alinghieri di Firenze

Author:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Dante Alighieri WIKIDATA

Scribe:

Maççonis de Luce, Bartolomeus

Bartolomeus Maççonis de Luce WIKIDATA

Date:

1457.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 v. (158 leaves) ; 43 cm.

Former Owner(s):

Kirkup, Seymour, Stocker, 1788-1880

Seymour Stocker Kirkup WIKIDATA

Norton, Charles Eliot, 1827-1908

Charles Eliot Norton WIKIDATA

Note:

Written in rounded gothic script in brown ink in one column, headings in red, initials in blue with penwork flourishes in red. Includes the marginal commentary known as the "Falso Boccaccio" (after William Vernon).
Copied by Bartolomeus filius Andree Maççonis de Luce, 1457 (f. 157v).
See MS Ital 55 for a 14th-cent. leaf from another Dante manuscript, removed from MS Ital 54.
Bound in original wooden boards (repaired).
In a tray case, 44 cm.
Purchased with the gift of Friends, 1906.
Belonged to Baron Seymour Kirkup of Florence; his sale, London, 1871, n. 1175; Charles Eliot Norton.

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Medieval

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Institutional Record:

https://id.lib.harvard.edu/alma/990098584730203941/catalog

Holding Institution:

Harvard University