Dante Alighieri - Imago Editore - Divina Commedia dei Monforte (anno 1350): edizione facsimile - 2022
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Dante Alighieri’s *Imago Editore - Divina Commedia dei Monforte (anno 1350): edizione facsimile* is a numbered, limited illustrated edition in Italian, bound in leather and supplied with a case.
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Divine Comedy of the Monforte – Ms. Additional 19587
London, British Library
ISBN: 9791280847201
Copy number: XXIII
Format: 24.5 x 36.5 cm
177 leaves
Fine art printing
Gold leaf application
Hand-treated parchment paper
Mounted on antique paper
Hand-stitched on cords
Leather binding with gold impressions
Made in Naples around 1370, the original manuscript is today kept at the British Library in London. Its history is intertwined with that of the Monforte family, Counts of Bisceglie.
The codex preserves a suggestive figurative interpretation of Dante's journey. The decoration includes 48 drawings in the lower margins of the pages, done in ink and watercolor, some enriched with gold. The scenes accompany episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio, while the unfinished drawings allow a glimpse of the stages of the image-making process.
Large initials in gold on a blue background mark the text, introduced at the beginning of each canto by Latin rubrics. The opening of Purgatorio is particularly rich, adorned with foliage and heraldic motifs: in the historiated initial appear Dante and Virgil on a sailing boat.
This facsimile edition enables appreciation of the meeting of poetry and image in a fourteenth-century manuscript, in which the tale of the Comedy takes shape also through color and drawing.
Copy complete with case and commentary.
Published by Imago - The Nobility of the Facsimile
Divine Comedy of the Monforte – Ms. Additional 19587
London, British Library
ISBN: 9791280847201
Copy number: XXIII
Format: 24.5 x 36.5 cm
177 leaves
Fine art printing
Gold leaf application
Hand-treated parchment paper
Mounted on antique paper
Hand-stitched on cords
Leather binding with gold impressions
Made in Naples around 1370, the original manuscript is today kept at the British Library in London. Its history is intertwined with that of the Monforte family, Counts of Bisceglie.
The codex preserves a suggestive figurative interpretation of Dante's journey. The decoration includes 48 drawings in the lower margins of the pages, done in ink and watercolor, some enriched with gold. The scenes accompany episodes of Inferno and Purgatorio, while the unfinished drawings allow a glimpse of the stages of the image-making process.
Large initials in gold on a blue background mark the text, introduced at the beginning of each canto by Latin rubrics. The opening of Purgatorio is particularly rich, adorned with foliage and heraldic motifs: in the historiated initial appear Dante and Virgil on a sailing boat.
This facsimile edition enables appreciation of the meeting of poetry and image in a fourteenth-century manuscript, in which the tale of the Comedy takes shape also through color and drawing.
Copy complete with case and commentary.
Published by Imago - The Nobility of the Facsimile
Details
Number of books
1
Subject
Fine Bindings, Illustrated, Literature, Poetry, Religion
Book title
Imago Editore - Divina Commedia dei Monforte (anno 1350): edizione facsimile
Author/ Illustrator
Dante Alighieri
Condition
As new
Publication year oldest item
2022
Height
36.5 cm
Edition
Illustrated Edition, Limited edition, Numbered edition
Width
24.5 cm
Language
Italian
Original language
Yes
Publisher
Imago
Binding/ Material
Leather
Extras
Slipcase
Number of pages
354
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