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[Three itineraries]

Name:
Fontana, Bartolomeo; Garzoni, Constantine
Timespan:
Early works to 1800
Date:
1541
Language:
Italian
Provenance:
Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 317.; Purchased, 1963.; Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.
Subject:
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Europe -- Early works to 1800; Christian shrines -- Europe -- Early works to 1800; Christian shrines; Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages
Resource Type:
Text
Form/Genre:
Codices; Manuscripts, Italian; Manuscripts, Renaissance; manuscripts (documents)
Physical Description:
69 leaves : paper; 153 x 102 mm bound to 158 x 105 mm
Geographic Subject:
Italy -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Italy; Europe
Rights:
https://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Ms. codex.; Table of contents: 1. f.2r-27r: [Description of a pilgrimage from Venice to Santiago de Compostela, 1539-1541] -- 2. f.28r-30r: [Description of a journey from Venice to Milan, 1542] -- 3. f.32r-46v: [Description of a journey from Venice to Rome, 1544, with a brief account of journeys to Verona and Conegliano] -- 4. f.49r-69r: Nobilissima Strada [Description of a journey from Venice through Germany, the Low Countries, and France, with tables of distances from Milan to Bagnolo, Genoa and Geneva]; Title supplied by cataloger (Zacour-Hirsch). Title on title page in a later hand on different paper (f. 1r): Viaggio di Spagna et Portugallo del clarissimo Signor Costantin Garzoni. Title on spine: Garzoni Viaggi M.S.; 1st work: Fontana's Itinerario, overo viaggio da Venetia a Roma..fino a Santo Iacobo in Galitia, Venice 1550, appears to be based on this account.; Foliation: Paper, i (modern paper) + 69 + i (modern paper); [1-69]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto. A few leaves are missing at the beginning.; Script: Written in italic and cursive scripts by two or more hands.; Binding: 19th-century half calf; upper hinge split and nearly detached.; Origin: Written in Venice between 1541 (f. 27r) and the end of the 16th century.; A ms. copy of the Relatione di Portogallo di Costantino Garzoni is in the Bibliothè€que de Carpentras.; Italian.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Manuscripts, Ms. Codex 451