Itinerarium Antonini Augusti

Description

Title: Itinerarium Antonini Augusti
Published / Created: approximately 1500.
Publication Place: Italy?
Abstract: Manuscript copy on paper of the "Antonine Itinerary," a 3rd century guide to roads and routes in the late Roman empire. This version of the Itinerarium includes additions for maritime travel and lists of ports
Description: Title from title page.
In Latin.
Manuscript paginated in the 17th century in a Spanish hand. First leaf trimmed and mounted to a framing leaf.
Script: late humanist script; in ornamental capitals throughout.
Decoration: rubricated.
Layout: single large columns of 26 lines.
Binding: seventeenth?-century limp parchment over boards, made from leaves of a seventeenth-century text. Title on spine in ink.
Provenance: Previously owned by Don Andres de Valdecanas of Lucena (bookplate). Purchased from Richard A. Linenthal on the Edwin J. Beinecke book Fund, 2018.
Extent: 136 (+ii) pages (68 leaves) : 31 mm x 24 mm
Extent of Digitization: This object has been completely digitized.
Language: Latin

Genre: Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Renaissance Italy 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Material: paper ;
Resource Type: text
Subject (Geographic): Connecticut
New Haven.
Subject (Topic): Itineraries
Manuscripts, Medieval
Subjects: Itineraries > Early works to 1800
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Italy > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Valdecanas, Andres de > Bookplate

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Citation: Itinerarium Antonini Augusti. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.