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Divinia Comedia, Codex Altonensis

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Manuscript Information


​Title of manuscript: Divinia Comedia 
MS call number (and folio selected): n/a
Current location: Altona, Hamburg Germany 
Place of creation: Still debated between Bologna, Tuscana, and Siena
Date of creation: 1350 -1410 AD
Codicology and Paleography
Language(s) of text: Italian 

Script: Gothic Rotunda

Abbreviations: n/a

Textual corrections
            Contemporary:Erasure scraping on bottom of 22v

            Later:

Marginal Commentary
            Contemporary: 'Nota Bene" or "Manicule Marginalia" at Stanzas 10 and 12 of Canto II.

            Later:

Rubrication: Marked in the red ink, first two lines of the text, before Canto II begins. 

Instructions for scribe: n/a

Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: n/a
 

Provenance

The manuscript, and other items, entered the Christianeum in 1768 by Collector Johann Peter Kohl (1698-1778). Between the time of its creation, and its donation to the Christianeum, its provenance is unknown. 


Marks of ownership: *Not on this page

Previous owners: Johann Peter Kohl, a German Theologian and book collector, others unknown 
 
Mise en page: two column layout with a miniature interrupting these columns on 22v
Columns: 2 each folio 

Lines per column: 36 lines

Decoration (in hierarchical order)

Gilding: Yes, in the initial of the 'N' that starts Canto II is painted with gold ink

Small ink initials: Beginning of Canto II, the first letter, 'N' is a small initial, with painted foliage reaching along the edges of the text. 

Pen flourished initials: n/a

Painted initials: see 'small ink initials'

Gold initials: See 'small ink initials'

Foliate initials: First 'N' of Canto II

Zoomorphic initials: n/a

Anthropomorphic initials: n/a

Historiated initials: n/a

Miniatures: 


Miniature placed on 22r, 14 lines wide, interrupts two columns of text. Depicts the forest of Suicide
Marginal Illustrations: 'nota bene' also see 'Marginal Commentary' To indicate an important notation

Full page illustration: n/a
 

Other Information:


Oxidization on the top right-hand corner of 22v, near the text. This is from the gold gilded ‘N’ on the other facing folio, 21r.

 

Further readings:
 

Brieger, Peter; Meiss, Millard; Singleton, Charles S. Illuminated Manuscripts of the Divine Comedy. Princeton University Press. 1969. Print.
Noeske, Felicitas. “SCHMUCKPROGRAMM. CODEX ALTONENSIS”. Biblioteca.gym. January 18, 2017.

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