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Palestine -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800; Middle East -- Palestine
Related Place:
Portugal -- Lisbon.
Rights:
http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/
Notes:
Signatures: pi⁴ A-Z⁸ Aa-Kk⁸.; Leaf Bb1 signed "bb".; Title in red and black.; Woodcut title vignette (arms of Miguel de Castro, Archbishop of Lisbon) in red and black; woodcut initials.; Typographical ornaments.; Printed marginalia.; "Dirigido ao Illustrissimo, & Reuerendissimo senhor Dom Mighel de Castro dignissimo Arcebispode Lisboa Metropolitano. Com licença & priuilegio Real por dez Annos."; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Rosengarten Family Fund.; Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George L. Murray Fund.; Penn Libraries copy bound in gold-tooled three-quarter green morocco over marbled boards; gold-tooled monogram and name of Bernardino Ribeiro de Carvalho of Lisbon on upper board; 5 raised, gold-ruled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; author's surname and brief title stamped in gold on spine; marbled endpapers; red tops.; Penn Libraries copy has armorial bookplate ("Livraria de J.G. Mazziotti Salema Garção") of José Caetano Mazziotti Salema Garção on front pastedown; bookplate ("Biblioteca Alfonso Cassuto") on front pastedown; illustrated label of Livraria Ferin ("Livraria A. Ferin 70 74 R. Nova do Almada Lisboa. Succ. Ferin & Ca.") on verso of front free endpaper; blind armorial stamp (arms surrounded by legend: Biblioteca Alfonso Cassuto) on title leaf.; Penn Libraries copy has modern ms. notes in pencil on verso of front free endpaper; modern ms. note in pencil concerning provenance on recto of blank leaf at end of volume; typescript note concerning provenance pasted to verso of blank leaf at end of volume.; Penn Libraries copy has folded newsprint sheet (p. III-VI) from the Diario de Noticias (running title: DN Cultura) dated 3 May 1987 laid in.; Penn Libraries copy: title leaf mended at head and inner margins; many leaves damaged and mended at margins; wormhole in inner margin of many leaves in latter half of volume, occasionally mended.
Physical Location:
Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts, Rare Book Collection, DS106 .P36 1593
Collection:
Holy Land Collections (University of Pennsylvania); Rosengarten Family Fund; George L. Murray Fund
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