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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16386

Shelfmark:

P861

Title:

Vita di Dante /

Life of Dante

Author:

Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375

Giovanni Boccaccio WIKIDATA

Place:

Italy

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1450 and 1500

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: i, 130, i leaves : parchment ; 119 x 84 (73 x 53) mm

Former Owner(s):

Adda, Gerolamo, marchese d', 1815-1881

Girolamo d'Adda WIKIDATA

Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919

Charles Fairfax Murray WIKIDATA

Note:

Collation: Parchment. 1-6??, 78, 8-12??, 13??. The Dante section of the manuscript is codicologically distinct from the Bocaccio. Catchwords minimally adorned with dots. Modern pencil foliation.
Layout: 1 column, 16 lines. Bounding lines double on all sides, writing and bounding lines blind-ruled.
Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, presumably the hand of one Johanne Bonafe (see colophon) in brown ink. Rubrics originally red, now fading, some to the point of illegibility (during Jackson's day, the rubrics were apparently still legible, and the transcription of the inicipt and exlicit rubrics has been taken from her work)
Decoration: Each text begins with a gilt 5-line initial with white-vine infill on a multi-colored compartmented background. In the Boccaccio, 2-line section-initials alternate blue with red filigree or red with blue filigree. In the Dante, initials are 3- or 4-line gold with white-vine infill on a blue background with white highlighting.
Origin: Written in Italy in the late fifteenth century.
Marchese Girolamo d'Adda collection (bookplate inside front cover with shelf number A. IV. no. 19), Milan (catalogue, 1902, p. 11, nr. 12). C. Fairfax Murray collection. T. De Marinis, Cat. VIII (1908), n. 22.

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Wellesley College Library

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Biographies

Early works

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626430

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/35530/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College