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
Gaultherot, Vivant, printer Tory, Geoffroy, ca. 1480-ca. 1533
Published / Created:
1549
Call Number:
Ji17 2
Image Count:
1
Alternative Title:
Champ fleury
Description:
Bookplate: Hector DeBacker. Autograph: Fritz Kreisler. Binder's stamp: Ch. De Samblanx 1910., First published under title: Champ fleury, auquel est contenu lart & science de la deue et vraye proportio[n] des lettres attiques ... Paris, G. Tory et G. Gourmont, 1529., Numbering of leaves of signatures S and T inverted, leaves 129-136 erroneously numbered 137-144 and 137-144 numbered 129-136. Last 13 lines of letterpress and signature (QIIII) on recto of leaf 126 repeated from recto of leaf 116., and Signatures: ã⁸ *⁸ B-Y⁸ (- Y8, blank?).
Publisher:
à l'enseigne sainct Martin, Rue sainct Iacques, par Viuant Gaultherot,
Subject (Name):
Kreisler, Fritz, 1875-1962--Autograph and Samblanx, Charles de--Binding
Subject (Topic):
Alphabets--Early works to 1800, French language--Pronunciation--Early works to 1800, French language--Provincialisms--Early works to 1800, and Proportion (Art)--Early works to 1800
"Dans la 4 partie il est donné une description exacte de l'Amerique avec des figures bizarres resprés. des cannibales."--Graesse, Trésor de livres. and Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Dated and initialed binding of Ha
Publisher:
Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, rue S. Iaques, à l'enseigne du temps, & de l'homme sauuage,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Diller, Hans Anton--Binding and Lada-Mocarski, Laura K.--(Laura Klots),--1902-1997--Bookplate
"Dans la 4 partie il est donné une description exacte de l'Amerique avec des figures bizarres resprés. des cannibales."--Graesse, Trésor de livres., Bookplate: From the collection of Laura K. and Valerian Lada-Mocarski. Dated and initialed binding of Hans Anton Diller: H A D 1581., Head-pieces; initials., Paged continuously: v.1: [38] p., 467 leaves, [23] p.; v.2.: [16] p., 469-1025 leaves, [34] p., and Printer's mark on t.p.
Publisher:
Chez Guillaume Chaudiere, rue S. Iaques, à l'enseigne du temps, & de l'homme sauuage,
Subject (Geographic):
America--Early accounts to 1600
Subject (Name):
Diller, Hans Anton--Binding and Lada-Mocarski, Laura K.--(Laura Klots),--1902-1997--Bookplate
BEIN If M81 rh550: Leaves 29 and 102 misnumbered 26 and 103 respectively. Initials; tail pieces. Bookplate of Thomas Brooke., "Auec priuilege.", Signatures: *8, A-O8 (C4 misnumbered D4)., and First edition of More's Utopia in French. Translated by J. Le Blond.
Publisher:
au premier pillier de la grand'Salle on la Bou-tique de Charles l'Angelier deuant la Chappel le de Messieurs les Presidens
La mort du Roy Henry deuxieme aux tournelles à Paris, le x. Juilllet 1559 and La mort du Roy Henry deuxieme aux tournelles à Paris, le x. Juillet 1559
Description:
Title in upper margin., From Jacques Perrissin and Jacques Tortorel, Tableaux des guerres, massacres...en France, de 1559 à 1570, Geneva., and This electronic record is derived from historic data and may not reflect our current information. Review and updating of records is ongoing.
Publisher:
publisher not identified
Subject (Name):
Henry II, King of France, 1519-1559., Catherine de Médicis, Queen, consort of Henry II, King of France, 1519-1589., Paré, Ambroise, 1510?-1590., Guise, Charles de, Cardinal de Lorraine, 1525-1574., Montmorency, Anne, duc de, 1493-1567., and Francis II, King of France, 1544-1560.
Subject (Topic):
Sports injuries, Medical consultation, Death, Kings, Queens, Physicians, Medical equipment & supplies, Guards, and Dogs
Engraved throughout., Mounted., and Versified by Jean Maugin and illustrated by Léonard Gaultier. Reprint of the 1586 edition, with the date on title page and last plate omitted.
Signatures: a-v8., "Le Livre de vraye et parfaicte oraison, inspiré du texte latin du Betbuchlein et des Psaumes pénitentiaux de Luther, est une traduction, avec commentaires, des textes indiqués à la table ..."--cf. A Cartier. Bibl. des éditions des De Tournes, I, p. 176., and First published in Paris, 1529.