Accession number
MS M.555
Object title
Viaggio alli paesi del continente nuovo, 1531-1533.
Display Date
between 1675 and 1699.
Created
Venice, Italy, between 1675 and 1699.
Binding
Original 17th-century dark red morocco; repaired by Marguerite Duprez Lahey in the 20th century.
Credit line
Purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) in 1912.
Description
33 leaves (1 column, 18 lines), bound : paper ; 220 x 155 mm
Provenance
Bookplate on front pastedown: HS within ornamental vegetal frame; note pasted above the bookplate apparently in the hand of Count Camillo Soranzo (1826-1902) describing the manuscript; on front flyleaf recto in black ink, upper right: n. R. degli Oddz (?); purchased by J. Pierpont Morgan (1837-1913) from Ferdinando Ongania in 1912; J.P. Morgan (1867-1943).
Notes
Ms. travel account; written in Venice, Italy, in the last quarter of the 17th century.
A narrative of travel to Florida and the Atlantic seaboard with fantastic and dubious information; likely composed from secondary sources--Cf. Bühler.
A narrative of travel to Florida and the Atlantic seaboard with fantastic and dubious information; likely composed from secondary sources--Cf. Bühler.
Script
cursive script
Language
Italian
Resources
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