Divine Comedy: Riccardiano-Braidense Codex

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Divina Commedia: Codice Riccardiano-Braidense; La Commedia con il Commento di Iacomo della Lana nel ms. Riccardiano-Braidense; Manoscritto Riccardiano-Braidense della Commedia di Dante Alighieri; Divine Comedy: Riccardiano-Braidense Codex; Divine Comédie : Codex Riccardiano-Braidense.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ms. AG XII 2.
Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. 1005.
FACSIMILE EDITION
La Commedia con il Commento di Iacomo della Lana nel ms. Riccardiano-Braidense: Salerno Editrice (Roma, 2007). Full-size colour reproduction of all the fragments of the original document which once formed a single document: the facsimile brings together the two fragments containing respectively Inferno and Purgatorio (Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. 1005), and Paradiso (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ms. AG XII 2); the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding might not correspond to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 599 copies. Commentary in 4 tomes: Italian (by Volpi Mirko, Terzi Arianna). Slipcase.
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Divine Comedy: Riccardiano-Braidense Codex

ALTERNATIVE TITLES
Divina Commedia: Codice Riccardiano-Braidense; La Commedia con il Commento di Iacomo della Lana nel ms. Riccardiano-Braidense; Manoscritto Riccardiano-Braidense della Commedia di Dante Alighieri; Divine Comedy: Riccardiano-Braidense Codex; Divine Comédie : Codex Riccardiano-Braidense.
CURRENT LOCATION
Italy, Milan, Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ms. AG XII 2.
Italy, Florence, Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. 1005.
FACSIMILE EDITION
La Commedia con il Commento di Iacomo della Lana nel ms. Riccardiano-Braidense: Salerno Editrice (Roma, 2007). Full-size colour reproduction of all the fragments of the original document which once formed a single document: the facsimile brings together the two fragments containing respectively Inferno and Purgatorio (Biblioteca Riccardiana, Ms. 1005), and Paradiso (Biblioteca Nazionale Braidense, Ms. AG XII 2); the facsimile reproduces as close as possible the codicological characteristics of the original document; the binding might not correspond to that of the original document as it appears at the present moment. Limited edition: 599 copies. Commentary in 4 tomes: Italian (by Volpi Mirko, Terzi Arianna). Slipcase.
Photos courtesy of the Publisher

Category:
FEATURES – Codex on parchment, 330 x 210 mm, 572 pp.
ORIGIN – Italy.
CHRONOLOGY – First half of the 14th century. It is one of the oldest example of the Comedy.
FORMER OWNERS – Riccardi family.
GENRE – Literature.
CONTENTS – Comment by Jacopo della Lana, known as “il Laneo” (1290-1365), on the Comedy by Dante Alighieri. Jacopo’s comment immediately imposed itself among his contemporaries, both for the vernacular writing (as opposed to the wide use of Latin in the glosses of the Comedy), and for the clear exposition and acumen of his work. For this reason he often competed with the so-called Ottimo Commento (one of the most important fourteenth-century comments on the Comedy). However, the over one hundred manuscripts that have handed down Laneo’s commentary are perhaps an indication of its greater success, against the few dozens of the Ottimo Commento.
LANGUAGE – Italian.
SCRIPT – Bolognese gothic. The text is in the center of the page, and the comment forms a frame around it.
SCRIBE – Master Galvano from Bologna (see f. 100r: «Maestro galvano scrissel testo e la ghiosa, mercè de quella vergene gloriosa»).
ARTIST – Tommaso, son of Galvano da Bologna.

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