University of Pennsylvania, Ms. Codex 451

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Metadata

DS ID:

DS1531

Shelfmark:

Ms. Codex 451

Title:

Three itineraries.

Itineraries

Author:

Fontana, Bartolomeo

Bartolomeo Fontana WIKIDATA

Place:

Venice

Venice TGN

Date:

[1541-ca. 1599]

sixteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian

Italian WIKIDATA

Material:

paper

Paper AAT

Physical Description:

Extent: 69 leaves : paper ; 153 x 102 mm bound to 158 x 105 mm

Former Owner(s):

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888

Walter Sneyd WIKIDATA

Note:

Ms. codex.
A ms. copy of the Relatione di Portogallo di Costantino Garzoni is in the Bibliothèque de Carpentras.
Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title on title page in a later hand on different paper (f. 1r): Viaggio di Spagna et Portugallo del clarissimo Signor Costantin Garzoni. Title on spine: Garzoni Viaggi M.S.
1st work: Fontana's Itinerario, overo viaggio da Venetia a Roma..fino a Santo Iacobo in Galitia, Venice 1550, appears to be based on this account.
Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 69 + i (modern paper); [1-69]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. A few leaves are missing at the beginning.
Script: Written in italic and cursive scripts by two or more hands.
Binding: 19th-century half calf; upper hinge split and nearly detached.
Origin: Written in Venice between 1541 (f. 27r) and the end of the 16th century.
Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 317.
Purchased, 1963.

Keyword:

codices (bound manuscripts)

Manuscripts, Italian

Manuscripts, Renaissance

Italy

Early works

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages

Voyages and travels

Christian shrines

Europe

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9924866223503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p39k45t3f/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania