Abstract

The article presents a new Fourteenth-century manuscript in which after Seneca’s tragedies some short texts are found, including the epitaph ‘Iura monarchie’ and a note on the literary genre of the ‘Commedia’, with the first verse of the presumed Latin incipit of Dante’s poem. After the presentation of this new manuscript, it is compared with two other already known codices which bear the same Dantesque texts. Presumably, it is from one of these manuscripts that Dante’s epitaph followed by the first Latin verse of the poem was taken: it can be read in a Toledan fifteenth-century humanistic miscellany, which was in turn copied into another codex. I also examine the note on the genre of the ‘Commedia’ and point out some parallels with the ‘Epistle to Cangrande’, Pietro Alighieri’s ‘Comentum’ and above all with Benvenuto da Imola’s ‘Comentum’, from which the Latin incipit was probably taken