The Divine Comedy (BL Egerton MS 943)

Dante and Virgil watch wretches in a procession in Hell, f. 7r.

Colloquial name(s): Dante's Divine Comedy

Official name(s): British Library, Egerton MS 943

Date: 1st half of the 14th C (source)

Origin: Emilia or Padua, N. Italy (source)

Online facsimile available via: British Library Digitised Manuscripts

This manuscript consists of an illustrated copy of Dante Alighieri's Divina Commedia with a commentary in Latin (source). It is decorated with 261 small miniatures in colours-and-gold, 3 large historiated initials in colours-and-gold, 2 full-page circular diagrams of the spheres of Hell and Heaven, a small circular diagram of the Continents in red ink, several foliate initials and 2 small initials in blue and red ink (source).

Basic descriptions of the illustrations are provided by the British Library with the fascimile.