Divine Comedy - Florence-Milan Manuscript

Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) is a giant of world literature with a discernible influence on successive generations
This precious manuscript is reunited for the first time after being seperated into two fragments for centuries
Along with the Divine Comedy, it contains one of the oldest and most influential commentaries, written by Jacopo della Lana (ca. 1290 – ca. 1365)

Divine Comedy - Florence-Milan Manuscript

Ms. 1005 — Ms. AG XII 2 Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense (Milan, Italy) / Biblioteca Riccardiana (Florence, Italy)

Description

Divine Comedy - Florence-Milan Manuscript

Jacopo della Lana wrote one of the oldest and most highly regarded commentaries on the Divine Comedy by Dante Alighieri, which is presented alongside the work itself in this fine Gothic Italian manuscript. After centuries of being divided between two libraries in Florence and Milan, the fine vernacular manuscript has been reunified in its original form.

Divine Comedy - Florence-Milan Manuscript

Almost 700 years after it was created, the precious codex known as the Dante Riccardiano-Braidense, is being united into a single, complete codex after having been long divided into two fragments. It is one of the finest artifacts in the literary tradition of Dante Alighieri (1265–1321) and is named after its respective repositories in Florence’s Biblioteca Riccardiana and Milan’s Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense. Jacopo della Lana (ca. 1290 – ca. 1365), called “Lanèo”, authored one of the first and most highly acclaimed commentaries on the Divine Comedy ca. 1323–28, and thus not long after Dante’s death. His commentary enjoyed immediate and lasting success due to its use of vernacular Italian as opposed to Latin, which was more prevalent at the time. Entire passages of Lanèo’s commentary were later incorporated into the so-called Ottimo Commento or “Excellent Commentary”. The popularity of the commentary can be attested to by the hundreds of surviving manuscripts containing it, including this fine specimen of Gothic Italian illumination, which originated ca. 1350.

Codicology

Alternative Titles: Il manoscritto Riccardiano-Braidense della Commedia di Dante Alighieri
Göttliche Komödie - Codex Riccardiano-Braidense
Dante Riccardiano-Braidense
Type: Manuscript on parchment
Size / Format: 572 pages / 33.0 × 21.0 cm
Origin: Italy
Date: Second quarter of the 14th century
Epochs: Late Middle Ages Onwards
Style: Gothic
Genre: Literature / Poetry
Language: Italian
Script: Gothic Textura Rotunda
Illustrations: 199 historiated initials
Content: Dante's Divine Comedy accompanied by the commentary by Jacopo della Lana
Artist / School: Dante Alighieri (ca. 1265 – 1321) (author)
Jacopo della Lana (ca. 1290 – ca. 1365) (author)
Galvano da Bologna (scribe)
Previous Owners: Monastery of Santa Giustina

Available facsimile editions:

Facsimile Editions

#1 Il Manoscritto Riccardiano-Braidense della Commedia di Dante Alighieri

Salerno Editrice – Rome, 2007

Publisher: Salerno Editrice – Rome, 2007

Limited Edition: 599 copies

Commentary: 1 volume by Mirko Volpi and Arianna Terzi
Language: Italian

1 volume: Exact reproduction of the original document (extent, color and size) Reproduction of the entire original document as detailed as possible (scope, format, colors). The binding may not correspond to the original or current document binding.

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