Details

Subjects:

Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.
Christian shrines -- Europe -- Early works to 1800.
Christian shrines.
Christian pilgrims and pilgrimages.
Italy -- Description and travel -- Early works to 1800.
Italy.
Europe.

Form/Genre:

Codices.
Manuscripts, Italian.
Manuscripts, Renaissance.

Language:

Italian.

Contents:

1. f.2r-27r: [Description of a pilgrimage from Venice to Santiago de Compostela, 1539-1541]
2. f.28r-30r: [Description of a journey from Venice to Milan, 1542]
3. f.32r-46v: [Description of a journey from Venice to Rome, 1544, with a brief account of journeys to Verona and Conegliano]
4. f.49r-69r: Nobilissima Strada [Description of a journey from Venice through Germany, the Low Countries, and France, with tables of distances from Milan to Bagnolo, Genoa and Geneva]

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.
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.
Script: Written in italic and cursive scripts by two or more hands.
Binding: 19th-century half calf; upper hinge split and nearly detached.
Origin: Written in Venice between 1541 (f. 27r) and the end of the 16th century.
A ms. copy of the Relatione di Portogallo di Costantino Garzoni is in the Bibliothèque de Carpentras.

Penn Provenance:

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

Cited in:

Described in Zacour, Norman P. and Hirsch, Rudolf. Catalogue of Manuscripts in the Libraries of the University of Pennsylvania to 1800. Supplement A (2), The Library Chronicle 36, no. 1 (1970), p. 7 (Ms. Italian 226).

Publications about:

Critical edition: Fontana, Bartolomeo. Itinerari. Due viaggiatori veneziani attraverso l'europa del cinquecento. Edited by Robert C. Melzi. (Geneve: Slatkin, 1995). The portion of Ms. Codex 451 attributed to Constantino Garzoni is not transcribed.

Cited as:

UPenn Ms. Codex 451.

Contributor:

Sneyd, Walter, 1809-1888, former owner.

Contains:

Nobilissima strada.
Garzoni, Constantine. Viaggio di Spagna et Portugallo.
Fontana, Bartolomeo. Itinerari.

OCLC:

155969524

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