Il Codice Trivulziano 1080 Della Divina Commedia
Milano: Ulrico Hoepli, 1921
The Divine Comedy was frequently copied by hand during the 14th and 15th centuries. Shown here is a page from a facsimile of an important early manuscript made in Florence around 1337. It represents an example of the “Danti del Cento” group of manuscripts that can be traced to the same scriptorium. Key features include a chancery-cursive script, a short summary (in red) at the beginning of each canto, text in two columns, initial letters beginning each tercet. The miniatures have been attributed to the anonymous Master of the Dominican Effigies. The manuscript eventually came into the ownership of Prince Luigi Alberigo Trivulzio. The facsimile was published in 1921 in a limited edition of only 350 copies . It has a leaf pasted in noting that the book was presented to the college “by the Italians of the United States of America on the initiative of Luigi Carnovale ... in commemoration of the six-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante, September 14, 1921.”