Journal of Magellan's Voyage
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Description
- Title
- Journal of Magellan's Voyage
- Creator
- Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
- Published / Created
- [ca. 1525]
- Publication Place
- France
- Abstract
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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
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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.
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. - Provenance
- Belonged to Sir Thomas Phillipps (no. 16405). Purchased in 1964 by Edwin J. Beinecke for the Beinecke Library.
- Extent
- ff. i + ii + i + 98 + ii + i : 276 x 184 (195 x 122) mm.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been completely digitized.
- Language
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French
Collection Information
- Repository
- Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library
- Call Number
- Beinecke MS 351
- Related Resource Online
- View a detailed description.
- Container / Volume
- Box
Subjects, Formats, And Genres
- Genre
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Manuscripts, Renaissance France 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library - Material
- parchment ;
- Resource Type
- unspecified
- Subject (Geographic)
-
Connecticut
New Haven. - Subject (Name)
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Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521.
Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534. - Subject (Topic)
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Discoveries in geography
Portuguese
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval
Early maps
Voyages around the world - Subjects
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Magalhães, Fernão de, 1480-1521
Pigafetta, Antonio, approximately 1480-approximately 1534
Discoveries in geography > Portuguese
Illumination of books and manuscripts, Medieval
Manuscripts, Medieval > Connecticut > New Haven
Early maps
Voyages around the world
France > 16th century
Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts in Beinecke Library
Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Pigafetta, Journal of Magellan's Voyage. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 9782527
- Object ID (OID)
- 33074441
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