Indiana University Bloomington, Allen 7
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Metadata
- DS ID:
- DS573
- Shelfmark:
- Allen 7
- Title:
- Itinerarium
Nobilis et discretus vir dominus marcuspaulo de veneciis cum xxvi annis continuis
Travelog - Marco Polo
- Place:
- Netherlands
- Date:
- s. XV(3/4); 1450-1475
- Language:
- Latin
- Physical Description:
- Binding: Bound in early nineteenth-century paper boards, paper flyleaves with extensive antiquarian notes; in a fawn cloth case.
Other decoration, ff.1r-38: Headings in red (some left blank); 2-line chapter initials throughout in red or blue, blank spaces left for large initials on fols. 1r and 36r.
Script, ff.1r-38: Semi-cursive hybrid Book Hand.
Layout, ff.1r-38: Collation: i#^7 [of 8, lacking i and two gatherings at the beginning, to judge from the signature ‘c2’ here, all with another text],ii–iii8, iv#^7 [of 8, viii lacking or canceled after fol. 29], v#^8, and lacking all thereafter; vertical lines ruled in blind, horizontal lines apparently in faint plummet, 2 columns, 40–41 lines, each volumn 193 mm. by 60 mm. with 12 mm...
Watermarks, ff.1r-38: Briquet 349 or a close variant, consistent with a Flemish or Netherlandish origin, an anchor, recorded in the Netherlands in 1463, Delft in 1477, and elsewhere. - Former Owner(s):
- Pieter Bondam (1727-1800), of the University of Utrecht, with his extensive notes; perhaps his sale, Utrecht, 1 October 1800; Sir Thomas Sharpe Powell (1849-1927); his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1929, lot 766; William G. Kelso, New York, bought from Lathrop Harper, 1930, with his notes inside front cover, dated June 1932.
Pieter Bondam (1727-1800), of the University of Utrecht, with his extensive notes; perhaps his sale, Utrecht, 1 October 1800; Sir Thomas Sharpe Powell (1849-1927); his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1929, lot 766; William G. Kelso, New York, bought from Lathrop Harper, 1930, with his notes inside front cover, dated June 1932.
Pieter Bondam (1727-1800), of the University of Utrecht, with his extensive notes; perhaps his sale, Utrecht, 1 October 1800; Sir Thomas Sharpe Powell (1849-1927); his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1929, lot 766; William G. Kelso, New York, bought from Lathrop Harper, 1930, with his notes inside front cover, dated June 1932.
Pieter Bondam (1727-1800), of the University of Utrecht, with his extensive notes; perhaps his sale, Utrecht, 1 October 1800; Sir Thomas Sharpe Powell (1849-1927); his sale, Sotheby’s, 16 December 1929, lot 766; William G. Kelso, New York, bought from Lathrop Harper, 1930, with his notes inside front cover, dated June 1932.
Sir Percival Victor David (1892-1964), of Friar Park, Henley, by 1938; W. E. D. Allen (1901-1973), of Cappagh, Co. Waterford; acquired by the Lilly Library with his collection in 1976.
Sir Percival Victor David (1892-1964), of Friar Park, Henley, by 1938; W. E. D. Allen (1901-1973), of Cappagh, Co. Waterford; acquired by the Lilly Library with his collection in 1976.
- Note:
- Manuscript note: The Itinerarium here was evidently once part of a composite volume of texts, perhaps all on travel or the orient. 17 leaves have been removed from the beginning.
Bibliography: Moule and Pelliot 1938, p. 516, no. 133, and pp. 518-19; Dutschke 1993, pp. 263 (no. 8), 282 (L4), 295-98 and 481.
ff.1r-38: The watermark in the paper here is consistent with a Flemish or Netherlandish origin, for it is an anchor, Briquet 349 or a close variant, recorded in the Netherlands in 1463, Delft in 1477, and elsewhere.
ff.1r-38: Latin.
f. 1r-35v: The present recension is recorded in ten other copies (Benedetto 1928, pp. clxxviii-clxxxii). It is much nearer the assumed prototype than the more common Latin translation, known in 78 manuscripts, made by the Dominican friar Francesco Pipino around 1314-24 (Kaeppeli 1970, pp. 392-93, no. 1114). The Lilly copy includes an unexpected interpolation which suggests a line of textual...
Incipit, f. 1r-35v: ex cinchin imperialis progenie descendentes. - Institutional Record:
- https://archive.org/details/Allen7_40
- IIIF Manifest:
- https://iiif.archivelab.org/iiif/images_Allen7_40/manifest.json
- Holding Institution:
