University of Pennsylvania, Oversize LJS 473

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DS ID:

DS710

Shelfmark:

Oversize LJS 473

Title:

L'arte del navegare.

Place:

Venice?, Italy

Venice TGN

Date:

1464-1465.

fifteenth century (dates CE) AAT

Language:

Italian, with a preface in Latin

Italian WIKIDATA

Physical Description:

Extent: 84 leaves : parchment and paper, color illustrations ; 213 x 138 (152 x 70) mm bound to 222 x 152 mm

Former Owner(s):

North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827

Frederick North, 5th Earl of Guilford WIKIDATA

Lee, John, 1783-1866

John Lee WIKIDATA

Manuscripts, Italian--15th century Codices (bound manuscripts)

Note:

Title supplied by cataloger.
Origin: Written in northeastern Italy, probably Venice, in 1464 (f. 19v) and 1465 (f. 66v).
Foliation: Parchment and paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 84 + ii (19th-century paper); 1-4¹⁰ 5⁹(-1) 6⁹(-1) 7-8¹⁰ 9⁶; [1-84]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.
Binding: 19th-century English blind-tooled morocco, with marbled endleaves.
Decoration: 3 colored diagrams (world map surrounded by concentric circles and zodiac signs, f. 8r; world divided into temperature zones surrounded by concentric circles, f. 12r; benches for rowers, f. 30v); 1 ink diagram (compass points, f. 49v); 3 astronomical tables in black and red (f. 66r, 66v, 68v); 1 three-quarter white vine-stem border with a 10-line illuminated initial in gold on...
Script: Written in italic script.
Layout: Written in 30 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in blind visible on some leaves.
Ms. codex.
Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 10 Jul. 1968, lot 283; sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 Dec. 2004, lot 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
Formerly owned by John Lee (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); sold as part of his collection at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Nov. 1888, lot 266.
Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
Formerly owned by Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); sold as part of his collection at auction at Evans, 13 Dec. 1830, lot 563 (note on second flyleaf).

Keyword:

Manuscripts, Italian--15th century

Codices (bound manuscripts)

Tables (Data)

diagrams

Manuscripts, Renaissance

treatises

Navigation

Italy--Venice

Shipbuilding

Naval art and science

Astronomy

Mediterranean Region

Early works

Institutional Record:

https://franklin.library.upenn.edu/catalog/FRANKLIN_9948440913503681

IIIF Manifest:

https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/phalt/iiif/2/81431-p3w549/manifest

Holding Institution:

University of Pennsylvania