Library of l^arbarD Bniìjmitv- BlBLIOGRAPHICAL CONTRIBUTIONS. EDITED BY JUSTIN WINSOR, LIBRARIAN. :N"O. 34. THE DANTE COLLECTIONS HARVARD COLLEGE AND BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARIES. Bv WILLIAM COOLIDGE LANE, Assistant Librarian. For a large part of its Dante Collection Harvard' College Library is indebted to Professor CHARLES ELIOT NORTON and to the DA .TE SOCIETY. CAMBRIDGE, MASS.: Esaueti bg f^t ILiiijarg of l^arbatì) ^Ent'òergittgf. 1S90. Already issued or in preparation: VCL. I. 1. EDWARD S. HOLDEN. Index-Catalogue of Books and 11. SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. The Entomological Libraries Memoirs on the Transita of Mercury. of the United States. 2. JusTiN WiNSOR. Shaliespeare's Poems : a Bibliography 12. FIRST LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS of Harvard Uni­ of the Earlier Editions. versity and its OfEcers. 1870-18S0. 3. CHARLES ELIOT NORTON. Principal books relating to 13. SAMUEL H. SCUDDER. A Bibliography of Fossil the Life and Works of Michelangelo, with Notes. Insects. 4. JusTiN WINSOR. Pietis et Gratulatio. An Inquiry 14. WILLIAM H. TILLINGHAST. Notes on the Historical into the authorship of the several pieces. Hydrography of the Handkerchief Shoal in the J. LIST OF APPARATUS in different Laboratories of the Bahamas. United States, available for Scientific Researches 15. J. D. WHITNEY. List of American Authors in Geology involving Accurate Measurements. and Palasontology. 6. THE COLLECTION OF BOOKS AND AUTOGRAPHS, be. 16. RICHARD BLISS. Classified Index to the Maps in queathed to Harvard College Library, by the Jtonor. Petermann's Geographische Mittheilungen. 1855- able Charles Sumner. 1881. 7. WILLIAM C. LANE. The Dante Collections in the 17. RICHARD BLISS. Classified Index to the Maps in the Harvard College and Boston Public Libraries. Pt. I. Royal Geographical Society's Publications; 1830- 8. CALENDAR of the Arthur Lee Manuscripts in Harvard 1S83. College Library. 18. JusTiN WINSOR. The Bibliography of Ptolemy's 9. GEORGE LINCOLN GOODALE. The Floras of different Geography. countries. 19. JuSTiN WINSOR. The Kohl Collection of Early Maps. jo. JusTiN WINSOR. Halliwelliana : a Bibliography of the ao. WILLIAM C. LANE. Index to Recent Reference Publications of James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps. Lists, no. i. 1884-1885. VCL. IL 31. SECOND LIST OF THE PUBLICATIONS of Harvard Uni­ 39. WILLIAM C. LANE. Index to Recent Reference Lists, versity and its Officers. 1880-1885. no. 3. 1887. 32. JuSTiN WINSOR. Calendar of the Sparks Manuscripts 30. Facsimile of the autograph of Shelley's poem " To a in Harvard College Library. Skylark," with notes. 23. WILLIAM H. TILLINGHAST. Third List of the Publica­ 31. W. G. FARLOW. Supplemental List of Works on tions of Harvard University and its OflScers. 1SS5- North American Fungi. 1886. 32. H. C. BADGER. Mathematica! Theses, 17S2-1S39. 34. WILLIAM C. LANE. Index to Recent Reference Lists, no. 2. 1S8S-1886. 33. WILLIAM H. TILLINGHAST. Fifth list of Publications of Harvard University and its Officers. 1887-1888. 25. W. G. FABLOW and WILLIAM TBELEASE. List of Works on North American Fungi. 34. WILLIAM C. LANE. The Dante Collections in the 26. WILLIAM C. LANE. The Carlyle Collection. Harvard College and Boston Public Libraries. 27. ANDREW MCF. DAVIS. A few notes on the Records 35. GEORGE E. WOODBERRY. Notes on the MS. of Shelley of Harvard College. in the Harvard College Library. 38. WILLIAM H. TILLINGHAST. Fourth List of Publica­ 36. WILLIAM C. LANE. The Treat Collection on Ritu- tions of Harvard University and its OfiScers. 1886- alism and Doctrinal Theology. 1887. 37. FRANK WEITENKAMPF. Bibliography of Hogarth. THE DA:N^TE COLLECTIO:N^S HAEVARD COLLEGE AND BOSTON PUBLIC LIBRARIES. WILLIAM COOLIDGE LANE, Catalogne Bepartment, Harvard College Library. *** BPL. (foUowed by a shelf-mark) stands for Boston Public Library. Additional titles are given from the private collections of Professor Charles Eliot Norton, and the late Professor George Ticknor, which are indicated respectively by N. and T. Ali other marks designate books in the College Library, of which those beginning with Dn. indicate the books of a special Bante collection. Care has been taken to give filli Information in regard to the contents and distinguishing characteristics of each edition of Dante, and to describe the various portraits of Dante as fully as possible. The number of pages is given only for the older books, and for modem books when less than a hundred. I. DANTE'S WORKS. stand the two epitaphs on Dante beginning " Inchta fama " Divina Commedia. and " Jura moiiarchiae." This MS. belonged to Baron Kirkup and is described by Colomb de Batines, ii. 103. (Including editions of separate parts of the Laid in this volume is a single sheet of vellum containing lines 64-135 of canto xxiv. of the Inferno, " che certo è della poem, and complete editions of Dante's prima metà del sec. xiv., e scritta in carattere tondo tanto bello e nitido da far quasi credere che sia un fac-simile. Se Works.) questo codice tuttavia esiste, io lo direi uno de' più antichi, MANUSCEIPTS. e de' più notabili quanto alla calligrafia." — ii. 104. 1. — [L'inferno e il purgatorio di Dante, end- 3. — El inflerno del Diinte. Canto quinto, ing with canto xxi. v. 63 of the Purgatorio. séptimo. [En verso castellano.] f°. pp. 8. Manuscript on paper of the 15th century.] (BPL. No. 7 in **X>. 3) i". flf. 108. Dn. i.i This manuscript was formerly in the possession of Baron EDITIONS OP THE ITALIAN TEXT."" Seymour Kirkup and is described by Colomb de Batines (ii. lOt). It was bought at the sale of his library in 1871 by (Arranged chronologically. ) EUis & White for £20, and was purchased for this library by the Dante society for £25. It has Latin annotations in the 4. — [La divina commedia col commento di mai-gin which Colomb de Batines considers to be in the same Benvenuto da Imola {ver. JACOPO DELLA LANA) band as those in the oode.x laurenziana, Plut. xl. no. ii. e colla vita di questo poeta scritta da Giovami! From an ìnseription in the end it appears to have belonged to Boccaccio. Venezia., Vendelin da Spira. 1477.] the Grimaldi family of Genoa. f. ff. (373). Dn. 14.77 There is no title page. The outer columii on each side of 2. — [L' inferno e il paradiso di Dante, col co- the first leaf, and the whole of the last page are fiUed in in mento detto il Falso Boccaccio. At end .•] MS. The first page bears the stamp " E.-c Bibl. Jos. Ilon Scriptù per me bartolomeum fllium andée map- Card. Imperialis." conis deluce. — Sub annis dni Mille cccc"l. vij. * Complete works, nos. 29, 65. [1457]. Deo Gratias Amè. 1°. ff. 158. (N.) Divina commedia and Lyric poems, no .03. A beautiful MS. on paper written in large Gothic letters, Inferno, nos. 49, 59, 71, 77, 83, 92, 111, 113; the sanie, with with marginai notes to the first fourteen cantos of each cantica translation, 138,139,148, 186,188,193, 195, 234; the same, in in smaller character taken from the comment known as the part, 104,107. " Falso Boccaccio." Each canto begins with a title and Purgatorio, with translation, nos. 137,146,189. argument in red and an ornamentai initial. A large and elabo­ Paradiso, witli translation, no. 131. rate initial begins the Inferno. On the verso of the last leaf Helections, nos 122-127. DANTE COLLECTION. The work ends with "Capitoli" in verse by Busone da The first ten leaves contain the introductory matter com­ Gobbio and by Jacopo Alighieri, the Credo of Dante, and a mon to several editions of this period, and the Credo, Pater colophon in verse giviii" the name of commeutator, editor, nostro and Ave Maria of Dante follow at the end of the and publisher, with the date. Paradiso. The first fifteen leaves containing the Life by Boccaccio are often wanting. 8. — Danthe alighieri fiorentino. [At end : ] The colophon ascribes the commentary to Benvenuto da Imola, and it was long cousidered by mauy Italian scliolars Fine del comento di CHRISTOFORO LANDINO to be his ; but ali are now agreed that it sliould be ascribed Fiorentino sopra la Comedia di Dàthe reuista to Jacopo della Lana. Beprinted in 1865 and 1866 (nos. 105 6 emendata diligétaméte per el reuerèdo maestro and log). Piero da Pigino & ha posto molte cose in di­ 5. — Comento di CHRISTOPHORO LANDINO uersi luoghi che ha trouato màcare si i lo texto fiorentino sopra la Coinedia di Danthe Ali­ come nella giosa. Impressa in Venetia per ghieri poeta fiorentino. [Colophon:'] Impresso Pietro de Zuanne di quarengii da palazago ber- in Firenze per Nichelo di Lorenzo della Magna gamesco. Del M.CCCC.LXXXXVII. A di. xi. a di .XXX. dagosto .M.CCCC.LXXXI. [1481]. f°. octubrio [1497]. f°. ff. (10), ccxcvii, (1). ff. (372). 2 engrav. (N. T.) Wdcts. (N.) The first Fiorentine edition. The first fourteen leaves (of At the beginning of the Inferno is a full-page wood-cut, ami wìiicli the first and last are blank) contain various introductory smaller ones stand at the head of each canto. They are the iiiatters, which will be found also in the editions of 1491,1493, same in design as those of the editions of 1491,1493, etc. but 1197, 1507, 1529, 1564, 1578 [nos. 6, 7, 8, 12, 15, 19, 22], as on a larger scale and engraved with finer execution. The well as in other editions iiot included in this oatalogue. first ten leaves contain prolegomena like the earlier editions. The two engi'avings (by Baccio Baldini from designs by At the end of the Paradiso are given the Credo, the Pater Botticelli) are at the begiimiiig of the first two cantos of the nostro and the Ave Maria of Dante.