Collection ID: 0002 | Metadata type: TEI | TEI XML | Data

Title

Three itineraries

Authors

• Fontana, Bartolomeo
• Garzoni, Constantine
• Fontana, Bartolomeo

Other related names

• Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner

Call number

Ms. Codex 451
(3420 Walnut Street, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 19104-6206., University of Pennsylvania, Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts)

Alternate identifiers

• bibid: 9924866223503681
• http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/63613779
• http://hdl.library.upenn.edu/1017/d/medren/2486622

Publisher

University of Pennsylvania

Language

Italian

Origin

Date

1541-ca. 1599

Place

Venice

Notes

• Ms. codex.
   
• 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.
   
• A ms. copy of the Relatione di Portogallo di Costantino Garzoni is in the Bibliothèque de Carpentras.
   

Extent

69 leaves : 153 x 102 mm. bound to 158 x 105 mm

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.

Support

Paper

Binding

19th-century half calf; upper hinge split and nearly detached.

Script

Written in italic and cursive scripts by two or more hands.

Provenance

• Sold in the collection of Walter Sneyd at auction at Sotheby's, 16 Dec. 1903, lot 317.
   
• Purchased, 1963.
   

Subjects topical

• Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages--Europe--Early works to 1800
• Christian shrines--Europe--Early works to 1800

Genres

• Codices
• Manuscripts, Italian--16th century
• Manuscripts, Renaissance

Keywords

• 16th century
• Christian
• Italy
• Paper

Licenses

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Table of contents

• fol. 2r — Description of a pilgrimage from Venice to Santiago de Compostela, f. 2r
• fol. 28r — Description of a journey from Venice to Milan, f. 28r
• fol. 32r — Description of a journey from Venice to Rome, f. 32r
• fol. 49r — Nobilissima Strada, f. 49r

Decorations

• Inside front cover — Bookplate, Inside front cover