Divina commedia
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Description
- Title
- Divina commedia
- Creator
- Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
- Contributor
-
Alighieri, Jacopo, active 14th century.
Bosone, da Gubbio, -approximately 1349. - Published / Created
- [between 1385 and 1400]
- Publication Place
- Italy
- Abstract
-
Manuscript on parchment of 1) Dante Alighieri, La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata. 2) Bosone de' Raffaelli da Gubbio, "Capitolo" on the Divine Comedy, in 64 terzine. 3) Iacopo Alighieri, "Divisione" of the Divine Comedy in 50 terzine (thus of the B group).
- Description
-
In Italian.
Script: Written in round gothic script.
Very fine initials and borders. Three historiated initials, each with a personification with attributes. Each initial with a full border of fleshy acanthus, blue, orange, olive green, pink, grey and gold, with tooling; birds in lower margin of ff. 1r and 54r; on f. 1r a coat-of-arms, in lower margin: azure, a chevron or, between two roses in chief argent, a mount of 6 in base argent, probably of the Bini family, Florence. 3-line initials, red or blue, with mauve or red penwork with long intricate flourishes often extending the length of the page. Opening text of Inferno adjacent to the initial of f. 1r in display capitals with penwork panels in brown ink. Capitals on the beginning of each stanza stroked in yellow. Rubrics throughout.
Binding: Sixteenth century. Sewn on five double supports attached to wooden boards. The spine is square with well defined bands and red and green endbands. Covered in dark brown goatskin, blind-tooled in mudejar style in two sets of concentric frames; DO.IOAN.DE gold-tooled in the center of one, BORGA in the other. Trace of two fastenings. Gilt edges. Restored. - Provenance
- Purchased from H. P. Kraus in 1968 by Edwin J. Beinecke, for the Beinecke Library.
- Extent
- ff. i + 83 : 306 x 227 (212 x 158) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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Italian
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 428
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
-
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
-
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321.
Dominicans - Subject (Topic)
-
Manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry
Manuscripts, Medieval
Scholia - Subjects
-
Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321
Dominicans > Manuscripts
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Italian poetry > To 1400
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Scholia
Italy > 14th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Divina Commedia. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Catalog Record
- 9750315
- Object ID (OID)
- 2052913
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