Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
Published / Created:
[ca. 1525]
Call Number:
Beinecke MS 351
Container / Volume:
Box
Image Count:
218
Resource Type:
unspecified
Abstract:
Manuscript on parchment (fine) of A journal of Ferdinand Magellan's voyage around the world in 1522, written by Antonio Pigafetta (ca. 1480/91 - ca. 1534), an Italian gentleman from Vincenza who survived the trip. Beinecke MS 351, the text of which is divided into 57 numbered chapters, is the most complete and most handsomely produced manuscript of the four surviving witnesses to the text; the original, probably in Italian, is now lost
Description:
In French., Script: Written in elegant humanistic bookhand with script often resting above the rulings; marginal notes and headings in a more cursive script that inclines toward the right., Twenty-three beautifully drawn and illuminated maps, mostly full-page, surrounded by gold frames, and with scrolls superimposed that contain the identifying legends for islands and land masses. Decorative initials, 4- to 3-line, rose or blue highlighted with white, on gold rectangular grounds edged in black, contain flowers in contrasting colors or strawberries and green and chartreuse leaves. Gold initials, 2-line, on red rectangular grounds or on red and blue grounds (divided diagonally or horizontally) with gold highlights. Gold paragraph marks, 1-line, on rectangular grounds that alternate red and blue, with gold highlights; rectangular line-fillers in red and gold, also highlighted with gold. Headings for chapters and titles for maps within text, as well as notes in margin entered by same scribe, in red or blue., and Binding: Nineteenth century. Red goatskin, gold-tooled. Bound by Duru in 1851. Disbound and mounted for photographic reproduction for the facsimile edition by Harold Tribolet at the Extra Bindery of the Lakeside Press. Rebacked with extraordinary skill.
Subject (Geographic):
Connecticut and New Haven.
Subject (Name):
Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521. and Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534.
Subject (Topic):
Discoveries in geography, Portuguese, Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval, Manuscripts, Medieval, Early maps, and Voyages around the world
Capt. Cooke's second voyage to the Southern Hemisphere
Description:
Anonymous. By John Marra., This edition was apparently intended to form volume 5 of 'A historial account of all the voyages around the world, performed by English navigators', volumes 1-4, by David Henry, were published in 1773-1774.-- See English short title catalogue., Edited by David Henry., Errata on verso of preliminary p. xiii., Signatures: a-b⁴ (-b4) B-D⁴ (±D2) E-2T⁴ (a1 verso blank)., and The "Resolution" commanded by Capt. Cook; the "Adventure," by Capt. Furneaux.
Publisher:
Printed for F. Newberry, at the Corner of St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
Oceania
Subject (Name):
Cook, James, 1728-1779., Resolution (Ship), and Adventure (Sloop : 1773-1776)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world and Discovery and exploration
Papers pertaining to the 1789 Spanish exploration of the Northwest Coast of North America. Under the command of Alessandro Malaspina, the expedition sailed from Cadiz to the west coast of Africa, across the Atlantic to South America, south to the Falkland Islands, around Cape Horn, and north along the west coast to Acapulco, where the documentation ends. In addition, there is material on the shipwreck of the San Pedro Alcantara, a voyage to the China Sea, and a map of the west coast of Central America.
Subject (Geographic):
Northwest Coast of North America--Discovery and exploration--Spanish and Northwest Passage
Subject (Name):
Atrevida (Corvette), Cordova, Luis de, Descubierta (Corvette), Eguia, Manuel de, Fernán-Núñez, Carlos José Gutiérrez de los Ríos y Rohan Chabot, conde de, 1742-1795, Gutierrez de Rubalcava, Joaquin, Malaspina, Alessandro, 1754-1809, Mazarredo, Joseph, Muñoz, Xavier, fl. 1786, Revillagigedo, Juan Vicente Güémez Pacheco de Padilla Horcasitas y Aguayo, conde de, 1740-1799, Sesma, Fermin, Sevena, Pedro de, and Valdés y Bazan, Antonio, 1744-1816
A voyage round the World, in the years MDCCXL,I,II,III,IV. By George Anson, Esq; commander in chief of a squadron of his majesty's ships, sent upon an expedition to the South-Seas. / Compiled from papers and other materials of the right honourable George Lord Anson, and published under his direction, by Richard Walter, M.A. chaplain of his majesty's ship the Centurion, in that expedition ...
Description:
"Directions to the bookbinder" ... " : p. [2]-[3] at end., Apparently compiled by Richard Walter and revised by Benjamin Robins (cf. Dictionary of National Biography, v. 48, p. 435)., BEIN Zc70 +748wa copy 2: Has plates in separate v. (61 cm.) shelved with call no.: 1984 Folio 22; this v. has printed t.p. ("Plates to Anson's voyage. London. MDCCXLVIII") and also includes an extra (?) mounted port. The v. of text (32 cm.) for copy 2 also includes an extra mounted port., Errata, p. [22]., and There are two known states: one state has press marks on p. 21, 29, 31; one state has none.
Publisher:
Printed for the author; by John and Paul Knapton, in Ludgate-Street.,
Subject (Name):
Anson, George Anson,--Baron,--1697-1762, Centurion (Ship), and Robins, Benjamin, 1707-1751
BEIN ZZc86 812Lia: Sobranīe kart i risunkov ... k Puteshestvīi︠u︡ ... S.-Peterburg, Morskai︠a︡ tip., 1812. 1 p. l., 13 maps (4 double) on 16 l., iii pl. 65 1/2 x 50 cm. and Russian in Cyrillic script.
Publisher:
V tip Ḟ. Drekhslera
Subject (Geographic):
Alaska
Subject (Name):
Neva (Ship)
Subject (Topic):
Voyages around the world and Description and travel
