Accession number
PML 453
Creator
Fracanzano da Montalboddo, active 1507-1522.
Published
Milan : [s.n.], 1508.
Credit line
Purchased with the Irwin collection, 1900.
Notes
A translation of the author's Paesi nouamenti retrouati, 1507.
Errors in foliation.
Dedication dated: Mediolani kalendis iuniis. M.CCCCC.VIII.
Collation: 98 leaves = title with woodcut map, A¹r-A¹v; dedicatory epistle and verso, A²-A⁸; index aa¹-²; text, B-N in 8s and 6s. The last twoleaves wrongly numbered LXXVII and LXXVIII.
Includes an account of the first three voyages of Columbus, and a translation of the "Mundus novus" of Vespucci.
Caption title: Itinerarivm Portugallensium ex Vlisbona ĩ Indiam necnon in occidentem ac setemptrionē:ex vernaculo sermone in latinum traductum. Interprete Archangelo Madrignano mediolanense monacho careuallensi.
Colophon: Operi suprema manus imposita est kalendis quintillibus. Ludouico gallia[rum] rege huius urbis īclite sceptra regēte. Iulio secūdo pōtifice maxima orthodoxā fidē feliciter moderāte:anno nr̄æ salutis .M.D.VIII.
Woodcut map of Africa on title page.
Binder's title: "Zorzi - Itinerarium".
Call no. suffix: Voyages.
Errors in foliation.
Dedication dated: Mediolani kalendis iuniis. M.CCCCC.VIII.
Collation: 98 leaves = title with woodcut map, A¹r-A¹v; dedicatory epistle and verso, A²-A⁸; index aa¹-²; text, B-N in 8s and 6s. The last twoleaves wrongly numbered LXXVII and LXXVIII.
Includes an account of the first three voyages of Columbus, and a translation of the "Mundus novus" of Vespucci.
Caption title: Itinerarivm Portugallensium ex Vlisbona ĩ Indiam necnon in occidentem ac setemptrionē:ex vernaculo sermone in latinum traductum. Interprete Archangelo Madrignano mediolanense monacho careuallensi.
Colophon: Operi suprema manus imposita est kalendis quintillibus. Ludouico gallia[rum] rege huius urbis īclite sceptra regēte. Iulio secūdo pōtifice maxima orthodoxā fidē feliciter moderāte:anno nr̄æ salutis .M.D.VIII.
Woodcut map of Africa on title page.
Binder's title: "Zorzi - Itinerarium".
Call no. suffix: Voyages.
Description
[10], LXXVIII (i.e. LXXXVIII) leaves : ill. (diagrams)
Provenance
Irwin collection. From the Montino and Ives collection, with bookplates.
Binding
Purple morocco.
Classification
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Department