Shelfmark
MS 112
Author
Uniform title
[Divina commedia]
Title
Dante, Divina commedia. manuscript
Varying form of title
Title in M. R. James catalogue: Divina commedia of Dante
Publication, distribution, etc.
Italy, ca. 1525.
Physical description
1 volume (i, 84, i leaves) : vellum, ill. (initials) ; 40 x 26.5 cm.
Note
Incipit: Incomincia la conmedia di dante alleghieri di firenze. nella quale tracta delle pene et punimenti de uitii et de meriti et premii delle uirtu.
Note
Written space: 293 mm high.
Note
Written in two columns of 45 lines.
Note
Collation: 1¹⁰ 2⁸ 3-4¹⁰ 5⁸ 6-7¹⁰ 8⁸ 9¹⁰.
Note
Script: written in 'bastarda cancelleresca tipo Cento' (the Italian equivalent of non-current anglicana). One of the 19 known manuscripts attributed to the 'Copista principale del Cento'. Other copies are Belluno, BL, 35; Firenze, BML, Plut.40.14; Firenze, BML, Strozzi 149; Firenze, BML, Strozzi 150; Firenze, BML, Strozzi 151; Firenze, BML, Strozzi 152; Firenze, BML, Strozzi 153; Firenze, BNCF, Naz. II. IV.587; Firenze, BNCF, Tordi 567; Firenze, BR, 1048; Genève, BPU, Comites Latentes 316; La Spezia, AND, Frammenti danteschi; Madrid, BNE, VITR/23/3; Milano, BT, 1077; Milano, BNB, AC. XIII.41; New York, ML, MS M.289; Siena, BDM, Frammenti danteschi; Venezia, MCC, C.2470/VII.4. See MANUS.
Note
Decoration: Border all round f. 1 and inner margin of ff. 28, 57; arms of the Alighieri family in the lower margin of f. 1.
Note
Initials: Historiated initials at beginning of each canticle (ff. 1, 29, 57), described by M.R. James as cited in the references below; 3-line litterae florissae at beginning of each canto.
Note
Secundo folio: Per questa.
Note
Rebound at Eton around 1715.
Note
Written in Italy.
Note
8-line ms. note on final page, partially erased, beginning "Nota che questo Dante" and apparently recording a payment; see Ker as cited in the references below for additional detail of the inscription.
Note
Probably bequeathed to Eton in 1639 by Sir Henry Wotton, provost of Eton.
Note
Misdated early 15th century by Petrocchi.
Note
From f. 40 onwards there are marks in brown ink in the bottom righthand corner of most leaves, of unknown significance.
Citation/references note
James, M.R. Descriptive catalogue of the manuscripts in the library of Eton College, 112
Citation/references note
Ker, N.R. Medieval manuscripts in British libraries, II, p. 724
Citation/references note
Petrocchi, G. La Commedia secondo l'antica vulgata, I, p. 497
Citation/references note
Colomb de Batines. Bibliografia Dantesca, 484
Citation/references note
Moore, E. Textual criticism of the Divina commedia, p. 549.
Citation/references note
Bernard, Catalogi librorum manuscriptorum Angliae et Hiberniae, 1697, 44
Cite as
Eton College Library, MS 112.
Provenance
Probably given by Sir Henry Wotton.
Binding
18th-century English blind-panelled calf binding by Slatter, rebacked in modern goatskin retaining red morocco spine label lettered in gilt "Dantes Poem".
Copy-specific note
Loosely inserted prospectus of "Il Codice Trivulziano 1080 della Divina commedia riprodotto in eliocromia sotto gli auspici della Sezione milanese della Società dantesca italiana nel sesto centenario della morte del poeta", Milano : Hoepli, 1921, with facsimile of first leaf.
Subject
Subject
Manuscripts, Medieval Italy.
Added entry--name
Wotton, Henry (), 1568 - 1639 former owner.
Added entry--name
Added entry--place
Italy.
Language code
ita
Identifier
B39031