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Metadata

DS ID:

DS16413

Shelfmark:

P1036A

Title:

Divina commedia

Divine Comedy

Author:

Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321

Dante Alighieri WIKIDATA

Place:

Piacenza, Italy

Piacenza TGN

Italy TGN

Date:

between 1350 and 1450

fourteenth century (dates CE) AAT

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

ita

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

parchment

Parchment AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 50 leaves : parchment ; 325 x 225 (218 x 150) mm

Former Owner(s):

Appiano family

Note:

Collation: Parchment, 50 fol. (not 51 as in de Ricci and Jackson), many of which have been severely trimmed, but the largest dimensions are 325 x 225 (218 x 150) mm. 14, 22 (not consecutive), 36, 42 (consecutive), 52 (not consecutive), 614−6, 74, 82 (consecutive), 912−6, 1010−2, 112 (not consecutive), 122 (not consecutive), 132 (not consecutive) [see quire diagrams above]. Catchwords extant on...
Layout: 1 column, 42 lines. Bounding and writing lines ruled in blind or light brown ink.
Script: Written in a humanstic bookhand in brown ink. Rubrics in brown.
Decoration: Six 7- or 8-line initials in gold and colors with acanthus-leaf scroll-work into margin, that on fol. 42v is incomplete, the gesso only having been applied. Initials of each tercet alternate red or blue, phrase initials stroked red or yellow.
Origin: This is a copy of the first redaction of Buti's commentary on the Divine Comedy, which was completed by Buti on 11 June 1394. Written in Piacenza in the late-fourteenth or early-fifteenth century, this manuscript represents a very early copy of the text.
With commentary by Francesco Buti.
In the sixteenth century, the manuscript was dismantled so that its bifolia could be used as wrap-around bindings for deeds concerning the Appiano family of Piacenza. Most of the bifolia bear inscriptions from this period, with dates ranging from 1540-1897. Two additional leaves of this manuscript are Biblioteca Comunale di Piacenza nr. 544 (see Franceschini). Piacenza folio 1 precedes...

Keyword:

Manuscripts

Manuscripts, Italian

Massachusetts--Wellesley

Heaven

Poetry

Early works

Wellesley College Library

Italian poetry

Paradiso (Dante Alighieri)

Institutional Record:

https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626070

IIIF Manifest:

https://repository.wellesley.edu/node/32207/manifest

Holding Institution:

Wellesley College