Florence, Biblioteca Nazionale Centrale, MS Banco Rari 215

Divine Comedy - Banco Rari 215 Manuscript Facsimile Edition

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The Banco Rari 215 manuscript, produced around 1410-1415, is a remarkable codex of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, notable for its rich iconographic and philological value. At the beginning of each cantica, it features refined bianchi girari decoration—an ornamental style of intertwined white vine motifs revived in 15th-century Florence. A full-page illustration depicts Dante in profile, while three full-page watercolor drawings enrich the text: one portrays the three realms of the afterlife; another shows Dante meeting Virgil while fleeing the three beasts; the third illustrates Mount Purgatory. The manuscript also contains extensive marginalia by the humanist Bartolomeo della Fonte, including glosses, textual variants, and brief vernacular summaries of each canto. Formerly owned by Florentine banker Francesco Sassetti, the manuscript exemplifies the Renaissance reception of Dante’s work and reflects the scholarly engagement with this cornerstone of Italian literature.

We have 1 facsimile edition of the manuscript "Divine Comedy - Banco Rari 215 Manuscript": Manoscritto Banco Rari 215. Il Dante Fiorentino facsimile edition, published by Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana - Treccani, 2024

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Manoscritto Banco Rari 215. Il Dante Fiorentino

Rome: Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana - Treccani, 2024

  • Commentary (Italian) by De Robertis, Teresa; Chiodo, Sonia; Speranzi, David
  • Limited Edition: 1999 copies + 8 copies in Roman numerals
  • Full-size color reproduction of the entire original document, Divine Comedy - Banco Rari 215 Manuscript: the facsimile attempts to replicate the look-and-feel and physical features of the original document; pages are trimmed according to the original format; the binding might not be consistent with the current document binding.

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Bound in blind-tooled leather. The binding reproduces that of the original.

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