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©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 1 Small | Medium | Large p. 1 (detail, top left) Inferno, Canto I. Initial N[el]. Portrait of Dante. |
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©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 2 Small | Medium | Large p. 1 (detail, bottom) Inferno, Canto I. Dante confronts the three beasts on the mountain; partial figure of Dante (rest of page destroyed). |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 3 Small | Medium | Large p. 2 (detail) Inferno, Canto I. Dante meets Virgil. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 4 Small | Medium | Large p. 3 (detail) Inferno, Canto II. Dante (rest of scene destroyed). |
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![]() Source: Roll 389.1 frame 5 Small | Medium | Large p. 4 (detail) Inferno, Canto III. Dante (part of scene destroyed), souls; the lukewarm, stung by insects, follow a banner. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 6 Small | Medium | Large p. 5 (detail) Inferno, Canto III. Dante and Virgil before Charon; a group of souls on each bank. |
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![]() Source: Roll 389.1 frame 7 Small | Medium | Large p. 6 (detail) Inferno, Canto IV. The unbaptized; Dante and Virgil greeted by the four ancient poets; the castle with seven walls. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 8 Small | Medium | Large p. 7 (detail) Inferno, Canto IV and V. Dante and Virgil observe the virtuous pagans on the meadow; Dante and Virgil before Minos (damaged). |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 9 Small | Medium | Large p. 8 (detail) Inferno, Canto V. Dante and Virgil observe the carnal sinners driven by the wind; Dante and Virgil and Paolo and Francesca. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 10 Small | Medium | Large p. 9 (detail) Inferno, Canto VI. Virgil, with Dante beside him, throws earth at Cerebus; Ciacco standing up among the gluttonous beneath hail and rain. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 11 Small | Medium | Large p. 10 (detail) Inferno, Canto VII. Dante and Virgil before Plutus; the avaricious and the prodigal pushing stones. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 12 Small | Medium | Large p. 11 (detail) Inferno, Canto VIII. The wrathful and the sullen in Styx; Dante and Virgil before the tower with two lights; the tower of Dis with one light. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 13 Small | Medium | Large p. 12 (detail) Inferno, Canto VIII. Phlegyas ferries Dante and Virgil; Filippo Argenti beside the boat; the wrathful in Styx; Dante watches Virgil parleying with a devil before the City of Dis. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 14 Small | Medium | Large p. 13 (detail) Inferno, Canto IX. Virgil shields Dante's eyes; the three Furies stand in front of the tower of Dis. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 15 Small | Medium | Large p. 14 (detail) Inferno, Canto IX. Dante and Virgil watch the Heavenly messenger approach; a group of souls; the Heavenly messenger opens the gate of Dis; within the city, sacrophagi from which flames issue. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 16 Small | Medium | Large p. 15 (detail) Inferno, Canto X. Dante talks to farinata as Virgil stands behind him; Cavalcante in the same sarcophagus; other sarcophagi, containing heads of heretics, are surrounded by flames. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 17 Small | Medium | Large p. 16 (detail) Inferno, Canto XI. Dante and Virgil pass the sarcophagus of Pope Anastasius; three terraced, concentric circles filled with souls. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 18 Small | Medium | Large p. 17 (detail) Inferno, Canto XII. Dante and Virgil before the Minotaur. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 19 Small | Medium | Large p. 18 (detail) Inferno, Canto XII. Dante and Virgil meet the three centaurs, who are followed by other centaurs; the tyrants of Phlegethon. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 20 Small | Medium | Large p. 19 (detail) Inferno, Canto XIII. Nessus departing; Dante and Virgil observe a tree in the wood of the suicides bleed after Dante has broken off a twig; Harpies in trees. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 21 Small | Medium | Large p. 20 (detail) Inferno, Canto XIII. Dante and Virgil watch the profligate torn by hounds. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 22 Small | Medium | Large p. 21 (detail) Inferno, Canto XIV. Dante and Virgil with Capaneus among the blasphemers and usurers in the rain of fire. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 23 Small | Medium | Large p. 22 (detail) Inferno, Canto XV. Dante talks to Brunetto Latini while Virgil observes the sodomites in the rain of fire. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 24 Small | Medium | Large p. 23 (detail) Inferno, Canto XV. Brunetto Latini in the rain of fire; Dante and Virgil continue their journey. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 25 Small | Medium | Large p. 24 (detail) Inferno, Canto XVI. Dante and Virgil with the three Florentine sodomites in the rain of fire; other sodomites in the rain of fire. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 26 Small | Medium | Large p. 25 (detail) Inferno, Canto XVII. Dante and Virgil (remainder of the page torn off). |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 27 Small | Medium | Large p. 26 (detail) Inferno, Canto XVII. Dante talks to the usureres in the rain of fire (partly torn off); Dante and Virgil mounted on Geryon. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 28 Small | Medium | Large p. 27 (detail) Inferno, Canto XVIII. Dante and Virgil look at the concentric circles of the malebolge, which are filled with souls- the panderers and the seducers on the topmost ring scourged by devils. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 29 Small | Medium | Large p. 28 (detail) Inferno, Canto XIX. Virgil stands beside Dante, who listens to Nicholas III among the simonists. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 30 Small | Medium | Large p. 29 (detail) Inferno, Canto XLX. Simonists; Virgil carries Dante. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 31 Small | Medium | Large p. 30 (detail) Inferno, Canto XX. Dante and Virgil observe the diviners. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 32 Small | Medium | Large p. 31 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXI. Dante and Virgil observe a devil carrying the ancient of Lucca. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 33 Small | Medium | Large p. 32 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXI. Dante hiding; devils; Virgil calms the devils; devils prodding a barrator in the pitch. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 34 Small | Medium | Large p. 33 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXII. Dante and Virgil led by the devils; devils prodding the barrators in the pitch. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 35 Small | Medium | Large p. 34 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXII. Two devils fall into the pitch; other devils, two of them pursuing Dante and Virgil. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 36 Small | Medium | Large p. 35 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXIII. Dante and Virgil talk to the two jovial friars; hypocrites; Caiphas. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 37 Small | Medium | Large p. 36 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXIV. Virgil chides Dante, who is toiling up the slope. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 38 Small | Medium | Large p. 37 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXIV. Dante and Virgil observe Vanni Fucci stung by a serpent and restored to his former form; thieves. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 39 Small | Medium | Large p. 38 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXV. Dante and Virgil observe Vanni Fucci, who defies God; Cacus, Agnello, and two other Florentine thieves. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 40 Small | Medium | Large p. 39 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXV. The metamorphosis of Cavalcanti and Buoso; another Florentine thief. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 41 Small | Medium | Large p. 40 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXVI. Dante and Virgil at the foot of the slope; Dante and Virgil with Ulysses and Diomedes, two of the false coucellors. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 42 Small | Medium | Large p. 41 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXVII. Dante and Virgil with Guido da Montefeltro among the false councellors. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 43 Small | Medium | Large p. 42 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXVIII. Dante and Virgil with Mohamed; a devil threatening the sowers of discord. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 44 Small | Medium | Large p. 43 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXVIII. Dante and Virgil with Piero da Medicina; Piero da Medicina pointingtout Curio; sowers of discord. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 45 Small | Medium | Large p. 44 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXVIII. Dante and Virgil observe Mosca and Bertrand de Born, who shows them his head (shown five times). |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 46 Small | Medium | Large p. 45 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXIX. Dante and Virgil observe Griffolino and Capocchio among the falsifiers; Dante talks to Capocchio; Virgil. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 47 Small | Medium | Large p. 46 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXX. Dante and Virgil with Griffolino; Gianni Schicchi biting Capocchio; two falsifiers. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 48 Small | Medium | Large p. 47 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXX. Dante and Virgil observe Master Adam, Sinon of Troy, and Potiphar's wife. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 49 Small | Medium | Large p. 48 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXI. Dante and Virgil observe the giants in the well. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 50 Small | Medium | Large p. 49 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXI. Dante and Virgil before Ephialtes; Antaeus lifting Dante and Virgil. Canto XXXII. Dante and Virgil observe the traitors (damaged). |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 51 Small | Medium | Large p. 50 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXII. Dante raising Bocca by the hair from among the traitors to kindred as Virgil stands beside him; Dante and Virgil observe Ugolino gnawing Archbishop Ruggieri's head, and Dante talks to Ugolino (shown a second time). |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 52 Small | Medium | Large p. 51 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXIII. Dante and Virgil observe Ptolomea. |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 53 Small | Medium | Large p. 52 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXIII. Dante and Virgil with Fra Alberigo (?) among the traitors to cause and country; Dante and Virgil. |
©Source: Roll 389.1 frame 54 Small | Medium | Large p. 53 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXIV. Dante and Virgil before Lucifer; Dante and Virgil (rest damaged). |
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Source: Roll 389.1 frame 55 Small | Medium | Large p. 54 (detail) Inferno, Canto XXXIV. Dante and Virgil emerging from the exit of Hell. |
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