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Text-inc Id:
tid00029000
Bod-inc Id:
D-012
Headings:
Dante Alighieri La Commedia (comm. Christophorus Landinus).
Analysis of content:
  1. [*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.
  2. [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.
  3. [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.
  4. [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.
  5. a2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [First part.] See D‑007.
  6. a2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the first part.] Incipit: ‘[H]abbiamo narrato non solamente la vita del poeta . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli I 281 - II 1029.
  7. 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.
  8. aa2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [Second part.]
  9. aa2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the second part.] Incipit: ‘[B]ene instituto et erudito nell' arte poetica . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli III 1036-1555.
  10. aaa1r Landinus, Christophorus: ‘Prologo . . . sopra el paradiso'.’ Incipit: ‘  “[T]e deum laudamus, te dominum confitemur”. Se Cicerone tanto philosopho . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli IV 1559-1562.
  11. aaa2r Dante Alighieri: La Commedia. [Third part.]
  12. aaa2r Landinus, Christophorus: [Commentary on the third part.] Incipit: ‘[P]erche chome habbiamo dimostro(!) . . .’ Ed. Procaccioli IV 1563-2029.
Imprint:
Florence: Nicolaus Laurentii, Alamanus, 30 Aug. 1481. Folio.
Collation:
[*8 a6] 2a10 b8 c–e10 f8 g10 h i8 l10 m n8 o–r10 s6 aa–gg10 hh12 ll mm10 oo6 8 B–H10 I6 L12. Gathering [*] is numbered but not signed. 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); Lamberto Donati, Il Botticelli e le prime illustrazioni della Divina Commedia (Florence, 1962); Arthur M. Hind, Early Italian Engraving, 2 vols in 7 (London, 1938-48), 100-5.
References:
Source: Bodleian ISTC: id00029000 HC *5946; Goff D‑29; BMC VI 628; GW 7966; Pr 6120; BSB‑Ink D‑9; Mambelli, 17-22, no. 10; Oates 2334; Rhodes 651; Sander 2311; Sheppard 5061. LCN: 14818367
Copies:
  1. D-012(1) Copy Wanting the blank leaves [*1], [a6], aa1, L11, and L12. Leaf F1 mounted, and supplied from another copy. Line 54 on2 oo6v reads ‘ . . . per sua instituta misericordia . . . | FINISCE LA SECONDA CANTI | CA'; line 48 on aaa1r reads ‘ . . . finalmen | te'. Title-leaf cropped, doubtless to remove earlier provenance. Engravings: Hind B, ills 1 and 2, and a second impression of 2; engravings appear 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 (unique example of this) and obliquely. Possibly a 'perfected' copy. Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled calf; marbled pastedowns, stamped on both covers with the arms of Doge Marco Foscarini (for whom see below): quarterly, 1 and 4, three fleur-de-lis, 2 and 3, seven lozenges in bend; on chief, lion of St Mark; other examples of books with his arms on the binding include Washington DC, Folger Shakespeare Library, PA6278 A3 1575 cage [https://luna.folger.edu/luna/servlet/detail/BINDINGS~1~1~16172~104564:Open-covers,-PA6278-A3-1575-cage-?sort=MPSORTORDER1%2CCall_Number%2CCD_Title%2CImprint&qvq=w4s:/who%2FCoat%2Bof%2Barms%2Bof%2BMarco%2BFoscarini%2B%2525281696-1763%252529%25252C%2B117th%2BDoge%2Bof%2BVenice.%2Fwhat%2F1761%2Bcentury%2BItalian%2Barmorial%2Bbinding%2Bwith%2Bthe%2Bcoat%2Bof%2Barms%2Bof%2BMarco%2BFoscarini%2B%2525281696-1763%252529%25252C%2B117th%2BDoge%2Bof%2BVenice.%2Fwhen%2F18th%2Bcentury%2B%252528mid%252529;sort:MPSORTORDER1%2CCall_Number%2CCD_Title%2CImprint&mi=1&trs=2]; and Venice, Marciana Library, BM Aldine 804 [https://marciana.venezia.sbn.it/immagini-possessori/127-foscarini-marco]. Size: 420 × 295 × 75 mm. Size of leaf: 410 × 274 mm. Washed early marginal notes in Italian in Paradiso, XVI, leaf F1r-v. Provenance:  Marco Foscarini (1696-1763), 117th Doge of Venice; coat of arms on binding (see above); Catalogo della biblioteca Foscarini ai Carmini, Vendibile a Venezia nell'anno 1800, no. 1900 [(https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=0ylgAAAAcAAJ&printsec=frontcover&source=gbs_ge_summary_r&cad=0#v=onepage&q&f=false)]. Purchased for £12. 0. 0; see Books Purchased (1803), 5. SHELFMARK: Auct. 2Q 1.11.
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