Dante — 14th century, end; Italian

Title

Dante — 14th century, end; Italian

Shelfmark

MS. Ital. e. 6

Place of origin

Italian

Date

14th century, end

Language

Italian

Contents

Form

codex

Support

parchment

Physical extent

ii (a modern paper flyleaf and a loose cutting from an italian newspaper) + i (modern parchment) + 199 + i (modern parchment)leaves.

Hands

Fine humanistic script, attributed by de la Mare (1994), to Coluccio Salutati.

Decoration

Simple red and blue initials.

Binding

Sewn on five cords, and bound in 19th-century blind-tooled green leather over pasteboards; with a pair of gilt metal clasps at the fore-edge with a monogram of the letters 'TT [or JJ?] S'; the centre of the upper board lettered in gilt 'DANTE | COMEDIA', and the lower board 'CODICE | DEL | SEC.XIV'; rust-stains and holes in fols. 2-5 and 197-200 show that a previous binding had metal fittings at each corner and in the centre of each board.

Acquisition

Bequeathed to the Bodleian by Moore.

Provenance

A reagent has been used on a contemporary ?ownership note below the explicit on fol. 199r, it perhaps reads 'Liber Jacobi ser(?) g(e)b(i?) lippi'.

The upper pastedown stamped in gilt with the initials 'A C[?] P' in 'black-letter' characters, within a cartouche, the lower pastedown similarly stamped with the motto 'IN OMNIBUS RESPICE FINEM'.

Dr. E. Moore (1835-1916), rector of St. Edmund Hall, Oxford, acquired in 1880 from Fratelli Bocca, Rome, and inscribed in pencil (fol. 1r) 'E. Moore | S Edmund Hall | Oxford | June 1880'; bequeathed by him to the Bodleian (cf. MS. Ital. d. 5), and provisionally given a Summary Catalogue number (a paper label printed with 'S.C. 37410' is upside-down in the lower right corner of the lower pastedown).