VALUABLE BOOK GIVEN DARTMOUTH BY U. S. ITALIANS

A recent accession to the College Library which is of greatest interest is a reproduction of the famous Codice Trivulziano 1080, one of the earliest extant dated copies of the DivineComedy, if not indeed the earliest. The presentation plate reads, "Presented to Dartmouth College by the Italians of the United States of America, on the initiative of Luigi Carnovale, Chicago, Illinois, in commemoration of the six-hundredth anniversary of the death of Dante, September 14, 1921. Seventy copies were brought to America for presentation to leading colleges and universities, the White House Library, and the Library of Congress,

The reproduction was published by Ulrico Hoepli, of Milan, under the auspices of the Dante Society of Italy, and is in heliocrome. This process of color photography reproduces with remarkable exactness all details of color and design of the text and its illuminations, and even the tint and texture of the vellum. The gift is one of great value for which the College is deeply appreciative.