Collection ID: 0001 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

De navigatione.

Authors

• Cotrugli, Benedetto, -1468

Other related names

• Moro, Cristoforo, 1390-1471, dedicatee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2020124734)
• North, Frederick, Earl of Guilford, 1766-1827, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86067027)
• Lee, John, 1783-1866, former owner (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n81071656)
• Venice (Republic : To 1797). Senato, dedicatee (http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n93064283)

Call number

Oversize LJS 473
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206, University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9948440913503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/793018001
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/366278 https://colenda.library.upenn.edu/catalog/81431-p3w549 https://openn.library.upenn.edu/Data/0001/html/ljs473.html http://repository.upenn.edu/sims_models/73 https://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017.12/100000479

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian, with a preface in Latin

Origin

Date

after 1465

Place

Venice?, Italy

Summary

Unattributed copy of Benedetto Cotrugli's treatise on ships and shipbuilding, composed in 1464-1465, including information on cartography, construction and use of the compass, types of ships, and meteorology and astronomy for use in navigation. Includes references to classical and medieval authors, which at the beginning of the manuscript are noted in the margins with red ink (f. 1v-4r). Dedicated to the doge (Cristoforo Moro, who served 1462-1471) and senate of Venice.

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• Title supplied by cataloger.
   
• 1. f.1r-3r: [Preface]
   
• 2. f.3v-27r: Descriptio totius orbis.
   
• 3. f.28r-47r: [Types of ships and roles of officers]
   
• 4. f.47r-72v: [Meteorology and astronomy]
   
• 5. f.72v-80v: [Maps and cartography]
   

Extent

84 leaves : 213 x 138 (152 x 70) mm bound to 222 x 152 mm

Foliation

Parchment and paper, ii (19th-century paper) + 84 + ii (19th-century paper); 1-4¹⁰ 5⁹(-1) 6⁹(-1) 7-8¹⁰ 9⁶; [1-84]; modern foliation in pencil, upper right recto.

Support

Parchment and paper

Binding

19th-century English blind-tooled morocco, with marbled endleaves.

Layout

Written in 30 long lines; vertical bounding lines ruled in blind visible on some leaves.

Decoration

3 colored diagrams (world map surrounded by concentric circles and zodiac signs, f. 8r; world divided into temperature zones surrounded by concentric circles, f. 12r; benches for rowers, f. 30v); 1 ink diagram (compass points, f. 49v); 3 astronomical tables in black and red (f. 66r, 66v, 68v); 1 three-quarter white vine-stem border with a 10-line illuminated initial in gold on gold with blue vines (f. 1r); 3 illuminated initials, 4 to 6 lines in height, in gold with white vine-stem ornamentation and extensions (f. 28r, 47r, 72v); 2-line initials in red or blue at the beginning of chapters; some marginal notes (f. 1v-4r) and headings throughout in red.

Script

Written in italic script.

Provenance

• Formerly owned by Frederick North, fifth Earl of Guilford (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); sold as part of his collection at auction at Evans, 13 Dec. 1830, lot 563 (note on second flyleaf).
   
• Formerly owned by English astronomer, mathematician, antiquarian, barrister, and numismatist John Lee (armorial bookplate inside upper cover); sold as part of his collection at auction at Sotheby's, 8 Nov. 1888, lot 266.
   
• Offered for sale at auction at Sotheby's, 10 July 1968, lot 283.
   
• Sold at auction at Sotheby's, 7 December 2004, lot 40, to Lawrence J. Schoenberg.
   
• Deposit by Lawrence J. Schoenberg and Barbara Brizdle, 2011.
   
• Gift of Barbara Brizdle Schoenberg, 2019.
   

Subjects topical

• Navigation--Mediterranean Region--Early works to 1800
• Naval art and science--Italy--Venice--Early works to 1800
• Shipbuilding--Italy--Venice--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy--Early works to 1800
• Astronomy
• Shipbuilding
• Naval art and science
• Navigation
• Italy--Venice
• Mediterranean Region

Genres

• codices (bound manuscripts)
• diagrams
• treatises
• Tables (Data)
• Tables (Data)
• Manuscripts, Italian--15th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 15th century
• Italy
• Italian
• Astronomy
• Science
• Paper
• Tables
• Treatise
• Cartography
• Shipbuilding

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 1r — Preface, f. 1r
• fol. 3v — Descriptio totius orbis, f. 3v
• fol. 28r — Types of ships and roles of officers, f. 28r
• fol. 47r — Meteorology and astronomy, f. 47r
• fol. 72v — Maps and cartography, f. 72v

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover
• fol. 1r — Illuminated initial, Initial I, f. 1r
• fol. 1r — Illuminated border, f. 1r
• fol. 8r — Diagram, f. 8r
• fol. 12r — Diagram, f. 12r
• fol. 28r — Illuminated initial, Initial Q, f. 28r
• fol. 30v — Diagram, f. 30v
• fol. 47r — Illuminated initial, Initial P, f. 47r
• fol. 49v — Diagram, f. 49v
• fol. 66r — Table, f. 66r
• fol. 66v — Table, f. 66v
• fol. 68v — Table, f. 68v
• fol. 72v — Illuminated initial, Initial D, f. 72v