Vita di Dante / (DS16386) (Q68851)
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Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (P861, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626430, in00000626430)
| Language | Label | Description | Also known as |
|---|---|---|---|
| English | Vita di Dante / (DS16386) |
Manuscript metadata collected by Digital Scriptorium from Wellesley College (P861, https://libcat.wellesley.edu/Record/in00000626430, in00000626430) |
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Boccaccio, Giovanni, 1313-1375
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Adda, Gerolamo, marchese d', 1815-1881
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Murray, Charles Fairfax, 1849-1919
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Wellesley College Library. Plimpton Collection.--Manuscript.--861
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Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321--Biography--Early works to 1800
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Manuscripts, Italian--Massachusetts--Wellesley
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between 1450 and 1500
15. century
1450Gregorian
1500Gregorian
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Extent: i, 130, i leaves : parchment ; 119 x 84 (73 x 53) mm
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Collation: Parchment. 1-6??, 78, 8-12??, 13??. The Dante section of the manuscript is codicologically distinct from the Bocaccio. Catchwords minimally adorned with dots. Modern pencil foliation.
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Layout: 1 column, 16 lines. Bounding lines double on all sides, writing and bounding lines blind-ruled.
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Script: Written in a humanistic bookhand, presumably the hand of one Johanne Bonafe (see colophon) in brown ink. Rubrics originally red, now fading, some to the point of illegibility (during Jackson's day, the rubrics were apparently still legible, and the transcription of the inicipt and exlicit rubrics has been taken from her work)
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Decoration: Each text begins with a gilt 5-line initial with white-vine infill on a multi-colored compartmented background. In the Boccaccio, 2-line section-initials alternate blue with red filigree or red with blue filigree. In the Dante, initials are 3- or 4-line gold with white-vine infill on a blue background with white highlighting.
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Origin: Written in Italy in the late fifteenth century.
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Marchese Girolamo d'Adda collection (bookplate inside front cover with shelf number A. IV. no. 19), Milan (catalogue, 1902, p. 11, nr. 12). C. Fairfax Murray collection. T. De Marinis, Cat. VIII (1908), n. 22.
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14 February 2025
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14 February 2025
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