Codex Altonensis of the Divina Commedia, by Dante Alighieri

Tuscany, 1350-1410
Italian Gothic

Bibliothek des Gymnasiums Christaneum, Hamburg-Altona (Germany)

Date of Publication of the Facsimile: 1965
Publisher: Gebr. Mann Verlag GmbH, Berlin (Germany)
Phototype: Graphische Kunstanstalt Ganymed, Berlin (Germany)

The early production of such a luxurious manuscript conveys clearly the high regard in which the works of Dante Alighieri (1265-1321) were held from the very beginning.

The Commedia (as Dante called it) is an account of his imagined voyage through Hell, Purgatory, and Paradise, guided in turn by the poet Vergil, by Beatrice and by St. Bernard of Clairvaux.






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