Wellesley College, P900

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS12774

Shelfmark:

P900

Title:

Paradiso

Author:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Dante Alighieri WIKIDATA

Place:

Northern Italy

Northern Italy TGN

Date:

between 1400 and 1450

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 1 leaf : parchment ; 301 x 213 (204 x 85 [text], 233 x 155 [text and commentary]) mm

Note:

With anonymous commentary, the "Falso Boccaccio."
Parchment.
Layout: 1 column with commentary in outer and lower margins, 30 lines of text, 54-56 lines of commentary. Bounding and writing lines blind ruled, outer and inner margins double-ruled.
Script: Written in a Humanistic bookhand, with a smaller module used for the commentary in black ink. Red rubrics.
Decoration: Two four-line initials in red and blue with brown and red infill and blue and red filigree into margins.
Origin: Written in Northern Italy in the first half of the fifteenth century.
Used as a flyleaf in the sixteenth century.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Heaven

Manuscripts, Italian

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626089

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/36228/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College