Accession number
MS M.529
Object title
Commentarium super Dantis comoediam.
Display Date
ca. 1358.
Created
Italy, ca. 1358.
Binding
Early 19th-century Italian vellum.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913).
Description
134 paper leaves and 6 vellum leaves (1 and 2 columns, varying number of lines), bound : paper and vellum ; 300 x 210 mm
Provenance
Owned by the Bargagli family in Florence; owned by Conte Ranieri Falsacappa of Corneto Tarquinia in 1891; purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Leo S. Olschki; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. commentary on Dante's Divina commedia; written in Italy, ca. 1358.
Since Pietro Alighieri was still alive in 1359 (d.1362) it is thought that the 6 vellum folios might be in his hand. According to Rocca, p. 345-346, M.529 is supposed to be the existing copy of this commentary closest to the original. There are 8 verses in Latin on folio 43 that have nothing to do with the commentary, thought to be a cryptogram.
Old foliation in Roman numerals is found on the upper corner rectos beginning with fol. 45 with the numeral LI; runs to LVIIII (fol. 53) and then jumps to LXI (fol. 54), seemingly indicating a missing page; foliation then switches to CXII (fol. 55) and runs to what looks like CXXIIII (fol. 67); it is then too worn to read, but perhaps continues through fol. 73, discontinued beginning fol. 74, but the last fol. of the manuscript (fol. 134) carries the numeral CLIII.
Since Pietro Alighieri was still alive in 1359 (d.1362) it is thought that the 6 vellum folios might be in his hand. According to Rocca, p. 345-346, M.529 is supposed to be the existing copy of this commentary closest to the original. There are 8 verses in Latin on folio 43 that have nothing to do with the commentary, thought to be a cryptogram.
Old foliation in Roman numerals is found on the upper corner rectos beginning with fol. 45 with the numeral LI; runs to LVIIII (fol. 53) and then jumps to LXI (fol. 54), seemingly indicating a missing page; foliation then switches to CXII (fol. 55) and runs to what looks like CXXIIII (fol. 67); it is then too worn to read, but perhaps continues through fol. 73, discontinued beginning fol. 74, but the last fol. of the manuscript (fol. 134) carries the numeral CLIII.
Script
cursive scripts
Language
Latin
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