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- Creator:
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374
- Published / Created:
- 1434.
- Call Number:
- Marston MS 17
- Image Count:
- 152
- Resource Type:
- unspecified
- Abstract:
- Manuscript on paper, with parchment for inner and outer bifolia, of 1) Petrarch, Itinerarium breve de Ianua usque ad Ierusalem et Terram sanctam. 2) Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus...
- Description:
- In Latin., Watermarks: similar to Briquet Monts 11854., Script: Written in fere-humanistic script by a single scribe, above top line., Plain red initial, 5-line, f. 1r; space unfilled for 10-line initial, f. 8r. Plain red initials, 3- to 1-line, throughout. Paragraph marks in red, in art. 1. Rubrics throughout, except f. 1r., First folio torn with loss of lower third of leaf; beginning and end of manuscript stained; some stains and wormholes affect text., and Binding: Eighteenth century, France (?). Brown, mottled sheepskin. Two blackish green labels (probably later additions) on gold-tooled spine: "Petrarchae Itinerarium" and "Boccatius De Montibus et Fluuiis." Contemporary green gold-tooled label on upper cover: "Fr. Petrachi. Itinerarium J. Bouatii. De. Flauiis. M. S. 1434."
- Subject (Geographic):
- Connecticut, New Haven., and Jerusalem
- Subject (Name):
- Petrarca, Francesco, 1304-1374.
- Subject (Topic):
- Latin literature, Medieval and modern, Manuscripts, Medieval, and Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Itinerarium; Boccaccio, De montibus, silvis, fontibus
3.
- Creator:
- Eccleston, John C.
- Published / Created:
- 1865.
- Call Number:
- 1995 Folio 19
- Image Count:
- 28
- Description:
- Title from printed leaf which was pasted on inside front cover., Signed and dated on leaf: John C. Eccleston ... Dec. 1st, 1865., Descriptive letterpress below each photograph., and "In the winter of 1859 the King of Prussia sent an artist to the Holy Land to procure accurate views for his portfolio ... I was so fortunate as to secure ... fine impressions from the most valuable of these negatives ... photographers, Messrs. Stoutenburgh & Rose (of this city) having reproduced these views"--printed label.
- Publisher:
- John C. Eccleston
- Subject (Geographic):
- Jerusalem
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Jerusalem photographic album
4.
- Creator:
- Breydenbach, Bernhard von, approximately 1440-1497
- Published / Created:
- anno salutis 1486 die xj Februarij.
- Call Number:
- Zi +156 2
- Image Count:
- 11
- Abstract:
- An account of a pilgrimage to the Holy Land, with outstanding illustrations, and with information on various eastern peoples met en route
- Alternative Title:
- Peregrinatio in Terram Sanctam and Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandum et gloriosum sepulcrum Dominicum in Iherusalem ...
- Description:
- BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Rubricated throughout. Head- and tail-pieces hand-colored. Part of view of Jerusalem hand-colored., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Imperfect: wanting plates with view of Venice, view of Modon, middle [?] portion of view of the Holy Land, and final blank leaf. Some leaves and plates appear to have been supplied from another copy. Some plates mutilated. Complete view of Holy Land supplied in negative photostat., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Stamp: Ex Bibliotheca J. Richard D.M., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 1: Bound in quarter old stamped leather over wooden boards, with clasps; lined with four leaves from a vellum 14th c. manuscript on canon law; the clasp hooks are missing., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Variant: Last letter (e in "pere-") inverted in line 1 of fol. 4v., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Imperfect: Final blank leaf wanting., BEIN Zi +156 Copy 2: Bookplate: Frank Altschul. Inscription: Pro Conventu Olomucensi ad S. Bernardinum. Illegible stamp., The first illustrated travel book printed, and the first to include images of real places. Also the first to include folding plates; the panorama of Venice is over five feet long. The view of Jerusalem is the earliest printed map of the Holy Land based on a contemporary eyewitness account., Woodcuts by Erhard Reuwich., Imprint from colophon, where name of printer precedes place of publication., Title from incipit to preface (leaf 4r)., Capital spaces without guide letters., Types of Peter Schöffer used. Cf. GW 5075., 1 binding fragment cataloged separately. To view other title search by call number: Zi +156, and BAC: British Art Center copy bound in contemporary blind-stamped pigskin over wooden boards; clasps missing. Rubricated; with uncolored woodcuts. Inscribed: Monastery Baumburg.
- Publisher:
- P[er] Erhardu[m] Reüwich de Traiecto Inferiori
- Subject (Geographic):
- Palestine, Sinai (Egypt), Venice (Italy), and Jerusalem
- Subject (Name):
- Breydenbach, Bernhard von, -1497
- Subject (Topic):
- Description and travel, Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages, Travel, and Travelers' writings, German
- Found in:
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library > Prefatio in opus transmarine peregrinationis ad venerandu[m] et gloriosum sepulcru[m] Dominicu[m] in Iherusale[m] ...
