La Divina Comedia, Poggiali Codex
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Manuscript Information
Title of manuscript:La divina comedia di Dante Alighieri : MS Palatino 313
MS call number (and folio selected): MS Palat. 313; folio 53v-54r
Current location: Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale
Place of creation: Florence, Italy, workshop of Pacino di Bonaguida
Date of creation: early 13th century, likely in the 1330's, though the exact date is inconclusive Codicology and Paleography
Language(s) of text: Italian
Script: Italian Gothic Rotunda (essentially the Italian littera textualis)
Abbreviations: none
Textual corrections:
Contemporary: line of text blacked out under initial (bottom of column 1, folio 54r)
Later: none
Marginal commentary
Contemporary: extensive commentary in Italian around columns a and b on folio 54r by Jacopo di Dante - script matches that of the body text, suggests the two were written more or less contemporarily
- presence of rubrication proves this is associated commentary for the body text rather than simply instructions for the scribe.
Later: none
Rubrication:- one line of rubrication (in red pigment) preceding commentary framing the top of column a, folio 54r
- two lines of rubrication (in red pigment) above framed miniature on folio 54r
- this rubrication, paired with the miniature, delineate the beginning of a new Canto
Instructions for scribe: none apparent
Instructions for rubricator and/or artist: one line of instruction to the right of the framed miniature on folio 54r
Provenance
Marks of ownership: none apparent
Previous owners: unknownMise en page
Columns: two (a and b)
Lines per column: - folio 53v: 32
- folio 54r : 16
Decoration (in hierarchical order)
Gilding: slight gilding evident in the gold leaf on the flourished 'T' initial
Small ink initials: red pigment initials mark the division of sections throughout the body text on both folios
Pen flourished initials: initial above column b, folio 54r could be one!
Painted initials: the flourished initial 'T' beginning Canto XXIII beneath the miniature on folio 54r is painted and features gold as well
Gold initials: some gold on the painted initial beginning Canto XXIII
Foliate initials: none
Zoomorphic initials: none
Anthropomorphic initials: none
Historiated initials: none
Miniatures:- framed miniature is placed within/set into both columns of text at the beginning of a new Canto, in this case, Canto XXIII, folio 54r.
- miniature framed in red depicts Dante and Virgil watching two devils fight and then fall into a ditch
Marginal Illustrations: none
Full page illustration: none Other Information
Further readings
Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Cornell University Press, 2007.
D'Ancona, Mirella Levi. “The Art Bulletin.” The Art Bulletin, vol. 53, no. 1, 1971, pp. 118–121. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/3048811.Hamel, Christopher de. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Phaidon Press Limited, 2014.
Stowell, Steven. “Visualizing the Sodomites in Dante's ‘Commedia.’” Dante Studies, with the Annual Report of the Dante Society, no. 126, 2008, pp. 143–174. JSTOR, JSTOR, www.jstor.org/stable/20787324.
