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Qui comi[n]cia la vita e costumi dello excelle[n]te poeta vulgari Dante Alighieri di Firenze honore e gloria delidioma Fioretino

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Type: Rare Books(Opens in new tab)
Publication date: [1477]
Call number: 104647
Creator: Dante Alighieri (1265-1321)(Opens in new tab)
Provenance: Purchased from Rosenbach, June 1925. Occasional ms. annotations in several early hands. Stamp on front flyleaf: Bibliotheca Heberiana. Sold as lot 2304 on the ninth day of the Richard Heber sale (Saturday 19 April 1834) by Sotheby's. Likely part of the bloc purchase from George John Warren Vernon by Robert Stayner Holford. George Holford inherited the volume from his father and sold it to Rosenbach in May 1925. Extensive bibliographical ms. annotations on free endpaper at beginning, likely pertaining to one of the 19th-century English owners.

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